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Hey everyone, Sorry for the bit of self-promotion here, but because the site I work for (IGN) is not a typical car site, I suspect many of you aren't aware of it. We're mostly about video games and entertainment, but we do cover tech as well. And that's how I approached my review of the P85D...

I just had occasion to drive by the Tesla HQ on Deer Creek Road and was surprised to see pickets outside the main gate (and security obvious at the other entrances). There was a big sign with something to the effect of 'Tesla kills families, Tesla kills jobs' I hadn't noticed any other...

Mods: Please add "American" to the subject. Top 10 Greatest American Cars of All Time - Motor Trend

Tesla’s Most Excellent Adventure, China Edition - Bloomberg Business

Track Science: Tesla P85D vs. Challenger Hellcat | Consumer Reports - YouTube Pretty nice video comparing the two.

Tesla Owners Frustrated by Recharge Waits - WSJ This is behind a paywall but, the title and the beginning of the article sounded negative. Anyone with access care to chime in? Thanks.

The August, 2015 AUTOMOBILE magazine has two articles of interest for Tesla enthusiasts.... Titled SHOCK JOCKS, an article on Tuned Teslas features Saleen's GTX Model S and the P85D. The article is very favorable and fair IMHO. Some great quotes.... "A car as great as the P85D deserves better...

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/06/28/tesla-motors-incs-model-3-ambitions-more-realistic.aspx

This article was linked on Slashdot: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/manufacturing-lithium-ion-battery-half-cost-0623. I know that many battery technologies announced never pan out, but MIT usually doesn't make an announcement unless they are really on to something. If it pans out, it could be...

Tesla Motors Inc Overtakes Illumina, Inc. To Become MIT’s Smartest Company

fun article Climate Change: 2014 Tesla Model S P85D

at San Diego Comic-Con http://www.cnbc.com/id/102771333

Tesla Motors, Inc. is 431 in the world with a score of 16%. It is 8th in the automaker. The No.1 greenest automaker is BMW and 26 in the world. Tesla only 8th greenest automaker, BMW is best, says Newsweek - news from Allwebsolutions.net here is the list...

I feel she kind of side stepped the question concerning making GM's interface more like Tesla's. She doesn't disparage Tesla though. Charged EVs | Loyal GM customer told CEO Mary Barra he is tempted by Tesla’s “beautifulâ€￾ user interface The moderator asks a Tesla question @ 27:08 and...

Full article at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tesla-announces-5-year-lithium-ion-research-deal-with-dalhousie-1.3117126

This is a screenshot of tonight´s news magazine tagesthemen on German TV: Looks like all EVs in Germany are Teslas :). People from the German forum organized a big meeting there to show that electromobility is a reality already, really successfull obviously! The conference was organized by...

P85D hottest/coolest car 2015 in Norway https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://e24.no/bil/aarets-feteste-bil-2015/dette-er-aarets-feteste-bil-2015/23471062&usg=ALkJrhhHV_6A7FCvXIScfJoHRcveuv9c1w

2015 Tesla Model S 70D Instrumented Test Car and Driver Wow, incredible praise from a 60+year old mag, based right outside Detroit, with so many ICE roots! They did notice some niggles however.

TESLA S70D for $ 200 by 8 pm MT today. The Messner Foundation I just bought one. I am crazy :D

Some new information within: Elon Musk and JB Straubel share their vision on energy (2015) - YouTube JB - "We would be disappointed if battery prices weren't in the... $100 range by the end of the decade." Elon calls LA Times "*******s" at about 52 minutes, says article was "not journalism"...

Tesla snaps up former Solyndra plant: report - MarketWatch

These guys did it.

Play the video game Elon Musk created at age 12 - CNET Blastar for HTML5: a web version of Elon Musk's 1984 video game

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown's administration is proposing a $15 million tax credit to electric vehicle-maker Tesla Motors after California lost out in a heated bidding war for the company's new battery plant. . The Tesla credit would offset taxes for the Fremont, California.-based...

More, including list of positions at: http://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2015/05/11/tesla-posts-gigafactory-jobs-positions-hiring/27122163/

Chinese Tesla owner turns power line into illegal personal charging station | South China Morning Post

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102726374

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html#page=2 WTF!! Since when Trolls are allowed to write on LATimes?!!

A couple of years after landing on a top 20 list with Elon, Obama, several car company execs, etc (#20, woohoo!), I finally got behind the wheel of a Tesla (I've been living in Poland and was patiently waiting for a good opportunity). Luckily, they gave me (and a few friends who had never been...

Review: Tesla’s new Model S P85D—double your engines, double your fun | Ars Technica

There's a good article out today in the Rivard Report about Tesla and to some degree the Texas legislature. The Rivard Report is an urban news magazine in San Antonio run by the former executive editor of the San Antonio Express-News. The article quotes a few Tesla owners including me (Greg...

This is quite the headline on USA Today: "Consumer Reports' $127K Tesla becomes 'undriveable'" http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/17/consumer-reports-tesla-model-s-door-handles/27492335/ The original Consumer Reports blog post is here...

2015 Tesla Model S 70D Ranked “Car Of The Centuryâ€￾: Car and Driver Review: 2015 Tesla Model S 70D Instrumented Test Car and Driver

Tesla has taken its recruiting of Apple employees to the next level: the electric car and energy company has hired away Apple’s Senior Director of Corporate Recruiting, Cindy Nicola, to become Tesla’s new Vice President of Global Recruiting. Nicola has already noted her now role and start month...

Who’s Responsible when a Driverless Car Crashes? Tesla’s Got an Idea - WSJ

First drive: Tesla Model S P85D - BBC Top Gear

The Federal Trade Commission continues to advocate for direct sales, calls out Michigan's ban, in a new post today: Direct-to-consumer auto sales: It’s not just about Tesla | Federal Trade Commission Send this to your legislators if you're in a state that supports dealership power. They need...

It's almost as though they're trying to imply that he wants/wanted to acquire Tesla. Some of the quotes seem to lose context without knowing the questions that were asked though. It'd be interesting to hear him expand on some of it, but I doubt that will happen. Fiat Chrysler CEO met with...

The crux of the article is that Clayton Christensen has said Tesla is more of a "sustaining innovation" rather than a "disruptive innovation", but then, he said the same thing about the iPhone, apparently. The article doesn't necessarily agree with him though, in fact it presents a...

Interesting little article: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/tesla-isnt-car-company-battery-company/

Norway is reviewing its subsidies for electric vehicles after generous government incentives made the country the biggest user of battery powered cars in the world, hurting state revenues, the finance ministry said. Norway registered its 50,000th electric car on Monday, almost three years...

No offense to the Germans on this board, but this article is so full of German hubris, it's unbelievable. Will the competition get tougher? Certainly. Does that automatically make Tesla an also-ran? Not likely...

LA Times I think everyone is used to the Model S winning all kinds of awards, but still nice to see :smile:. Top 10 list: 1 Tesla Motors Model S P85D $133,320 2 Volkswagen e-Golf SEL Premium 83 miles $36,000 3 BMW i3 "most efficient vehicle currently on the market” $48,675, 60 MPH in seven...

Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013 - Bloomberg Business report says Tesla was on the verge of bankrupty in 2013 and Elon asked Larry Page (Google) to buy them out.

The Maryland legislature last night passed a bill allowing direct sales of Tesla cars beginning October 1: Tesla in Maryland

In todays (April 13) Houston Business Journal there is an op-ed article written by two top officials of a conservative Texas think tank arguing that selling cars direct to customers shouldn't be illegal in Texas: Link to Article

Tesla boosts range, power and price of low-end Model S - Yahoo Finance Just read this when I woke up today, gotta goto work. Sounds awesome. edit-everyone is posting this, WSJ, Reuters etc, looks like big news.

From the Top Gear editors at the BBC, no less: BBC - Autos - 20 cars that changed the world The Model S is one of them, of course.

Ex red Bull F1 guy: http://adamcooperf1.com/2015/04/06/former-red-bull-chief-mechanic-handkammer-joins-tesla/

With a video of a P85D vs Bentley Continental drag race tossed in. No future schlock: Tesla’s awe-inspiring Model S - MarketWatch