We first saw the Tag Heuer Tesla Roadster back in Geneva, and were told then that the car would be making its way to Basel, Switzerland for the Baselworld watch and jewelry show starting on Thursday. Indeed, the car is rolling toward that goal and...
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While Tesla announced the TAG Heuer special edition of the Roadster a while ago, they’ve now released the first photos of the special edition roadster on an actual road. What’s so special about this Roadster? Nothing except the paint-job. And...
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We’ve always thought that the Tesla Roadster is a thing of singular beauty, and the more models our roadways welcome, the better. According to a Tesla newsletter, Tesla will increase Roadster production by 40 percent and extend sales of the...
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In January, it was discovered in a SEC filing for an IPO that Tesla would stop selling the Roadster, due to tooling changes at the Lotus plant in Hethel, England where it is built. The Roadster’s production was contracted out to Lotus, and it...
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found 4 days ago by Sam Abuelsamid on
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Following the unveiling of the TAG Heuer Roadster Sport at the Geneva Motor Show last week, Tesla has released a large batch of new photos of the one-off electric sports car. The new shots show the car, which was prepared to celebrate the 150th...
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Expensive cars and expensive watches have been paired together as often, and for as long, as ice cream and chocolate syrup. Every year various watch manufacturers come out with special editions aimed at the performance driver. Usually they sport...
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This 2010 TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster is a product of the coming together of Swiss luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer, a brand of luxury group Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), and electric carmaker Tesla Motors. Revealed at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, this...
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found 13 days ago by Sebastian Blanco on
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The gaping openings on the front of the EYE design study vehicle from the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin (IED) that's on display at the Geneva Motor Show this week would cause troublesome impacts on airflow if they were on a real electric car,...
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found 14 days ago by Damon Lavrinc on
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The connection between high-end sports cars and high-end watchmakers has been solidified for decades, and this newest partnership is a clear indication that the union is alive and well into the 21st century. Here in Geneva, Tesla has teamed up with...
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For the first time ever, Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer has teamed up with an electric sports car company. The result is the 2010 TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster, which will be showcased at the Tesla Motors booth at the Geneva Motor Show. Tesla Chief Designer...
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Two of the most stylish ‘ T’s ‘ on the planet have teamed up to present a special, one-off roadster. In honor of Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer’s 150th anniversary, the watchmaker has worked with Tesla on the 2010 TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster.The...
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found 17 days ago by Domenick Yoney on
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If you've ever wondered whether a Tesla Roadster can really rocket from a standstill to 60 miles per hour in just 3.9 seconds, a new custom collectors edition of the electric sports car could allow you to verify that claim with a certain degree of...
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Tesla has launched a new lease program for the Roadster, a two-seat EV sports car. With a price of more than $100,000, the decision to buy one can’t be an easy decision for most people. Tesla thinks that the lease program will get more people to...
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found 20 days ago by Frank Filipponio on
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For those of you who dream of driving a Tesla Roadster every day, but perhaps have been a little too scared about the potential hassles of a long-term relationship to pull the trigger, we have some good news for you. Tesla Motors has said they're...
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found 20 days ago by Ray Wert on
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Tesla leasing for $1,658 per month? Perfect for the Carpocalypse economy. Don't buy when you can lease. Wait, didn't GM do that with the EV1 and then killed it? Tesla's gonna kill the... oh wait, they already did....
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found 27 days ago by John Neff on
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Though it proudly sports a chrome Tesla Motors logo on its nose, the Geneva-bound EYE concept pictured above was not penned by that California company's designers. Not directly anyway. That credit goes to 11 transportation design master course...
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found 21 days ago by Sam Abuelsamid on
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Tesla Roadster Sport versus Porsche Boxster Spyder - click above to watch video We've been fortunate enough to drive a number of different Tesla Roadster models now, including a week-long review that was just published. Owners of high performance...
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found 23 days ago by Damon Lavrinc on
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After finally getting myself situated in the back of the Boeing, I notice the lady to my left wearing a Tesla fleece. As fate, the alignment of the stars and unbridled dumb luck would have it, I was seated next to Rachel Conrad, Tesla's Senior...
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The EYE is a conceptual study by Italy's IED Turin in collaboration with Tesla Motors for a sporty C-segment hatchback model with an all-electric drivetrain. Designed with European and Asian consumers in mind, the EYE will have its world premiere at...
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The latest concept car from the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin doesn’t just portray the futuristic appearance of electric sports cars. This 2 + 2 really is intended for daily use and is targeted at a young, urban market. Early next month, the...
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In Northern California, a Cessna 310 struck an electrical tower and crashed into a residential neighborhood, killing three Tesla Motors employees. Local police say that Tesla confirmed all had worked at the company. CEO Elon Musk said that the names...
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found 27 days ago by Jeremy Korzeniewski on
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Wreckage from the deadly Palo Alto plane crash - Click above to watch the video after the break Details on the deadly airplane crash that took the lives of three Tesla Motors employees are now filtering in, including the identities of the deceased....
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Green Car Advisor has learned the names of the three Tesla employees killed in yesterday's plane crash. They are Doug Bourn, 56, of Santa Clara; Andrew Ingram, 31, of Palo Alto; and Brian M. Finn, 42, of East Palo Alto. Bourn was a...
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Some sad news today: three Tesla executives have lost their lives in a plane crash at Palo Alto in California. The two engined Cessna plane was owned and piloted by Doug Bourn, an engineer at Tesla, and all three passengers were “high ranking...
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found 28 days ago by Jeremy Korzeniewski on
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A small, twin-engined Cessna crashed this morning in an East Palo Alto neighborhood, killing all three passengers on board. According to reports, the plane was owned by Doug Bourn, a senior electrical engineer for Tesla Motors, and all three...
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TTAC officially retired its Tesla Deathwatch series over a year ago, after the firm delivered its 100th Roadster. Indeed, we’ve generally turned away from the “Deathwatch” tag in recent months, as the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler have...
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And we have yet another interesting concept being shown in Geneva. This one is actually the work of some students at the L ‘Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin. Tesla commissioned a group of eleven students within the Master of Arts in...
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I don't put much faith in the mainstream media anymore. Not because I believe the government is listening to my brain-waves and controlling CNN from an underground base in a Nevada desert, but because I've found they leave out a lot of important...
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The Huffington Post is reporting that a plane owned by Tesla electrical engineer Doug Bourn has crashed shortly after takeoff. The plane was en route from Palo Alto to Los Angeles and was carrying two other Tesla employees. Elon Musk, CEO of...
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In a little more somber news than we’re used to in the auto world, three executives from electric carmaker Tesla were killed in a plane crash in Palo Alto, California this morning. The twin-engine Cessna 310 was piloted by one Tesla exec and had...
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