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Here is a truly silly rumor: From Briefing.com: 11:27 TSLA Tesla Motors ticks lower following rumors of Apple (AAPL) taking a stake in Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) (246.53 -2.31) Let's see, Chrysler is the least competitive US car maker; Fiat has backward-looking management (recall CEO Marchionne...

It IS useful if you're Toyota and need to support your unworkable hydrogen fuel cell vehicle scheme by pretending Superchargers with battery packs don't exist, and fast charging typical 100kW-hour EV battery in 12 minutes needs to be done direct from the electric grid. Also, some more on power...

No they didn't. I just posted this comment on the Benzinga article: UPDATE: Morgan Stanley Reiterates On Tesla Motors Inc As Stock May Be Up For Wrong Reasons | Benzinga "Morgan Stanley…reiterated an Overweight rating on Tesla Motors Inc…but removed the $320.00 price target…In the report...

More photos, and interesting description of the shield parts, from Edmunds.com May 27, 2014 Underbody (Battery) Shield Kit Installed - 2013 Tesla Model S Long-Term Road Test There are three main parts: a forward-mounted Skid Bar (green), a stamped titanium Bash Plate (black) and an extruded...

I was just researching a reply to a Seeking Alpha article attempting FUD about costs of the titanium underbody shield, when i came across an article I hadn't seen: this 02May2014 Consumer Reports video on their test car's installation. Just for reference: "Tesla has developed a bolt-on...

Buckling Doors, Dual Mode Wheel Drive, Volt-Cars and Driving Without A Clip I thought some might find useful and entertaining this list of Seeking Alpha's mistranscriptions of the Tesla 2014 Annual Shareholders meeting...

TheStreet.com article is wrong; Morgan Stanley reiterated last Friday 16May2014, not today: May-16-14(Tesla Motors Inc.: 3 Key Thoughts) Following our review of Tesla’s 10Q, we reiterate our OW rating and $320 target. Given the broader s...

As of 14Jan2014 video can be seen at: Tesla Car of the Future - YouTube

As of 08Oct2013, the above video link no longer works, however it's available here: ABC News Nightline "Tesla: Car of the Future?" (starts at 8:22): http://abcnews.go.com/watch/nightline/SH5584743/VDKA0_7qnr3yzq/nightline-0821-did-syria-use-chemical-weapons-on-its-people Great content and...

Hello all. I had a really long comment on Elon's Model S Fire post, that seemed more appropriate for a blog: "Elon and the Tesla team have not just contained potential fire safety hysteria, they've 180'd the event into positive publicity for the far greater fire safety of the Model S vs...

Even completely non-ignitable gasoline wouldn't affect the huge waste heat given off by ICE vehicles--a big source of fires that pure EVs don't have.

Briefing.com notes 11:43am "chatter over a potential battery issue hitting;" then follows up at 11:44am "article on battery concerns...is apparently three years old"

Tesla's original 2006 paper, with detailed well-to-wheel efficiency calculations: The 21st Century Electric Car, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, Tesla Motors Inc., Wednesday, July 19, 2006 http://www.evworld.com/library/Tesla_21centuryEV.pdf Data from this paper is still used as of...

Not super fast swapping, but straightforward: iPhone battery replacement videos: iPhone 4 Repair - iFixit

Additionally, what would be such delicious irony: if, in dealers' glee over bullying a currently insignificant player--Tesla--they end up generating a groundswell of public indignance towards decades of dealer price gouging--culminating in the US Supreme Court striking down ALL laws against...

ABC News video from 14 May 2013: What's so striking is the arrogance of the North Carolina dealers president: N.C. Bill May Block Manufacturers Like Tesla From Directly Selling Cars to Consumers - ABC News I posted this comment: "Robert Glaser, president of the North Carolina Automobile...

@mulder1231: This 13May2013 Morgan Stanley "realistic" target increase to $77 should set off the remaining analysts, some of whom, incredibly, have not revised upward their pre Dec 2012 before Tesla reached the 400 car/week milestone. I especially liked its short-igniting summary: "The Tesla...

Flawed logic: 1) claiming tepid consumer demand until EVs have no price or convenience differences vastly underestimates the game-changing benefits of EVs 2) no differentiating snowballing press and demand for the Model S, from tepid demand for other EVs. I assume this is the same "John...

Hello all, my first post on teslamotorsclub.com. Just a few thoughts on smorgasbord's 4Q2012 results concerns: "I think they will have eaten into some of the money they raised in Oct. " I assume you think this is bad because Elon represented the offering as a "just in case" thing. Still...