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Tesla Model S (Page 18)

By John Goreham on March 26, 2019 - 11:31AM
As Tesla moves ever closer to "full self-driving" Tesla vehicles are still struggling on Autopilot.
By Al Castro on March 18, 2019 - 6:03PM
ANALYSIS AND OPINION: It hasn’t been a week since the Tesla Y unveil at the Design Studio and the Tesla Fan Base and media alike are now speculating what the already iconic pickup truck will shape out to be. So over Model Y and it’s ho hum, the excitement energy is already now building for Model U.

By Al Castro on March 16, 2019 - 3:07AM
ANALYSIS AND OPINION: The Eve of the Ides of March like the Model Y unveil at the Tesla Design Studio came like the new car itself and went like any other event without much fanfare. Both are no frills or gimmicks, the most practical you can get in a car and an event, neither didn’t take much money to make, and in the car’s case it has the potential to outsell it’s siblings combined.
By John Goreham on February 25, 2019 - 4:21PM
Tesla's unusual door handles didn't work in a recent Tesla Model S crash, frustrating would-be rescuers.
By John Goreham on February 8, 2019 - 5:15PM
A new study by AAA shows that electric vehicle range limitations are made worse in winter.
By Al Castro on February 3, 2019 - 5:45AM
ANALYSIS AND OPINION: I wonder if the people who are caught red handed being “distracted while AutoPilot” realize how lucky they are they got away with their crime. Unlike the people who I last wrote about who face the wrath of the NTSB and the courts for their tort who proclaim “my Tesla did it, not me,” “driving distracted while AutoPilot” is a crime of reckless endangerment, and most are getting away with it without realizing it.
By Al Castro on February 1, 2019 - 6:40AM
By selling the entire model range in three categories, Tesla Corporation makes each car more cheaply, and simplifies discerning which car is which. If you want “Ludicrous,” which now comes in a separate upgrade package at a $20,000 premium, no more looking at old school Bentley-like badges to see battery energy capacity, you just look for “Performance.” This also helps with pricing and sales: by having cheaper Base Models S and X, Tesla is getting ready to sell Base Model 3.
By Damien Ludwick on January 31, 2019 - 3:55PM
The disruption of the gas station is looming. What will the future gas station look like? Cars like Tesla Model S, Model 3, Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt will turn the future gas station into a Wall Connector charging your car inside your garage. Most likely it will be two cars load sharing on a charger powered by 14 solar panels.
By Al Castro on January 31, 2019 - 6:27AM
ANALYSIS AND OPINION: One of the worse things a driver can do in a late model car engaged in an accident is to fib or outright lie. You see, whether you realize it, their car may help you, but your car is going to make it really easy to tell your side of the story, with data and soon even images, sooner than later, and regardless of what kind of shape the car is in, and whether for your benefit or not. Your car always telling the truth, is one thing! Getting on the same page with you, is another.
By Armen Hareyan on January 21, 2019 - 8:32PM
The new Porsche Taycan is expected to be able to charge at 350 kW. Would Tesla Model S cars be able to support that kind of charge rate as is? Could Porsche and Tesla partner together to handle the battery issue?
By John Goreham on January 17, 2019 - 9:44AM
We break down our expectations for 2019 EV sales in the U.S. market by model and name the winners, losers, and no-shows.
By John Goreham on December 17, 2018 - 12:16PM
A newly posted vidoe shows a woman trying to fuel up a Model S. Real or fake - vote here.
By Al Castro on December 17, 2018 - 9:15AM
ANALYSIS AND OPINION: Attention military, law enforcement, security, and/or hunters who validly possess a firearm, or anyone else with the gall to carry a firearm illegally: the chances of your battery electric vehicle catching fire from a purposeful or accidental firearms discharge through the battery pack are much greater than if pierced through a gas tank. Read this story now coming to light about a 2014 Tesla S to find out why.
By Al Castro on November 28, 2018 - 5:38PM
Traditional and conventional engineering wisdom dictated for years that the purpose of a Mercedes Benz was to enable you to withstand a crash, so that you can survive to buy another Mercedes. Perhaps that conventional thinking now also applies to a Tesla. Five kids driving and riding in a high speed Tesla crash their Model X into a tree and creek. The car was destroyed. Fatalities: 0. The hero: the Tesla.
By Armen Hareyan on November 27, 2018 - 12:24PM
If by 2025 one in six new cars sold in the world will be electric this means the world will need more EV batteries for electric cars. This means the car manufacturers will need more Graphite to build EV batteries. Torque News spoke with Tom Yingling, the president of Berkwood Resources Ltd. who told us that many battery and auto manufactures have reached out to them and are waiting for their graphite resource report to come out.
By John Goreham on October 30, 2018 - 10:23AM
Consumer Reports closely follows the quality of vehicles. The pricey Tesla Model S is again out of favor.
By Armen Hareyan on October 18, 2018 - 8:13PM
If you could ask Elon Musk to change one thing about your Tesla Model S what would it be?
By Al Castro on September 13, 2018 - 9:36AM
Thieves are hacking Tesla vehicles and their key fobs worldwide with special hacking computer hardware tools to steal the car within seconds. It took Tesla a year to solve it. All this, from the company that wants to bring us a world of electric cars without drivers, the problems that may seem too difficult for Tesla to solve over the electric cars they already have that still need them.
By John Goreham on September 10, 2018 - 2:58PM
A new study finds that green cars sell the quickest in the used market. Tesla has a car on the list, but it's not the one that sells quickest. See where your favorites rank.
By John Goreham on September 5, 2018 - 4:56PM
Some U.S. Prius cars are being recalled for risk of fire. Should we report it?
By Al Castro on September 4, 2018 - 6:35PM
With the continued uptick purchases of trucks and SUVs by US consumers, while global new car sales are slowing down, and gas prices remaining low the last two years, there is now a glut of used EV cars on the market, with bargains to be had if you know where and how to find one for the right price.
By John Goreham on August 30, 2018 - 10:29AM
Tesla have high insurance rates. This video helps explain part of the reason.
By John Goreham on August 27, 2018 - 10:07AM
Another Tesla Model S crashes into the back of yet another emergency vehicle.
By John Goreham on August 20, 2018 - 3:05PM
Two of Tesla's largest institutional investors, Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price Group sold off a significant portion of their stake in the luxury car maker before Elon Musk's comments about going private. What did they know that the public did not?
By John Goreham on August 20, 2018 - 12:38PM
Is Tesla becoming funded by big oil? Tesla’s environmental moral high ground goes right out the window if Saudi oil money is used to keep the money-burning luxury electric vehicle company afloat.
By Al Castro on August 15, 2018 - 6:17AM
The Tesla news blindsided and shocked the world. A stock exchange wasn’t notified, neither was the Securities Exchange Commission. Not even the board of directors of the company that was affected by the news. Stock prices went crazy, its stock was eventually suspended, everyone who’s anyone about billions denied they were asked to help, and a moment of explanation finally came: Elon Musk wants Tesla to go private, he wants an equity leveraged buyout, and he wants the Saudis to finance it.
By Al Castro on August 9, 2018 - 8:27PM
Like it was a few weeks ago when a Spanish designer took to Instagram to show his render of a proposed Tesla Semi 8 RV Camper, another artist has given us his vision of what a Tesla Model S next generation might look like with the present generation before its retirement sometime in 2021.
By John Goreham on August 7, 2018 - 4:15PM
IIHS has completed an initial study of Tesla's Autopilot and level 2 driver automation systems. Here's how Tesla compared.
By Al Castro on August 2, 2018 - 10:24AM
With all the fast paced changes occurring in the EV world from a Tented Model 3 to a Class 8 Mighty Tesla Semi RV Camper coached by Instagram, has unfortunately left EVers with an inescapable reality: this summer they’re left short handed with few camping vehicle options. What’s presently selling they’re not selling them here in the states. And Teslarites are taking the matter into their own hands.
By Al Castro on July 22, 2018 - 8:16PM
International Armoring is offering an aftermarket armored anti ballistic and bioweapon package for the Tesla Model S, in different levels of protection. A good armored vehicle needs to do two things: protect, and look stock. This package seems to do both.