Tesla Motors | Driving the Nation

Tesla designs and manufactures premium electric vehicles and energy storage units. The Co-founders are Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk, owner of Space X. The first car sold by Tesla was the Roadster. Tesla currently produces the Model S sedan and is taking reservations for the Model X SUV. The vehicles are produced in Fremont, CA. They are sold in many countries including China. In a partnership with Panasonic Tesla is creating a gigafactory to produce batteries.

Tesla Model 3 on John Batchelor radio show

By Lou Ann Hammond| 2017-08-14T13:52:35+00:00 August 3rd, 2017|Categories: Automobiles and Energy, Tesla Motors|Tags: Automobiles and energy, tesla|

If you sell one share of your Tesla stock, you could buy thirty shares of Ford stock. The only vehicle that Tesla sells are electric vehicles; a segment that makes up less than two percent of the entire Nation's sales. Ford's market share is 15.6%. General Motors market share is 16.6%. Statista reports that Tesla [...]

Tesla Model3, EV, PHEV, washingtonpost carchat

By Lou Ann Hammond| 2017-03-22T07:59:36+00:00 April 1st, 2016|Categories: #carchat, #climatechange, electric vehicles (EV), Tesla Motors, Warren Brown, Washingtonpost.com|Tags: EV, phev, Tesla Model3, washingtonpost carchat|

Good Morning Warren and Friends, Did anyone stay up to watch the live unveil of the Tesla Model 3? I doubt it. We - Driving the Nation - periscoped it. You can still see it live on my twitter feed or on my youtube channel. Bonus! Both Stretch and I were talking about it live. [...]

First Drive: electric and autonomous Tesla S by Bosch on Driving the Nation

By Lou Ann Hammond| 2017-03-22T07:59:55+00:00 May 27th, 2015|Categories: Alternative Fuels, Automobiles and Energy, Autonomous vehicles, Bosch, Suppliers, Technology, Tesla Motors, Video, youtube.com|Tags: autonomous cars, bosch, electric vehicles, teslamotors, video, youtube|

First Drive: electric and autonomous Tesla S by Bosch on Driving the Nation Bosch stripped a Tesla Model S electric vehicle, brought in fifteen sensors, and a lidar to create the first Model S P85 electric self-driving vehicle. We drove it last week in Boxberg, Germany. We got to see the [...]

Tesla is new in black and blue on Driving the Nation

By Lou Ann Hammond| 2017-03-22T07:59:58+00:00 April 8th, 2015|Categories: Automobiles and Energy, Tesla Motors|

Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) continues to heat up the stock market and is now offering a new model and new colors. The Tesla S 70D comes in three new colors; Ocean Blue, Obsidian Black, and Warm Silver. All colors are now available on any variant of Model S. A Tesla press release said, [...]