What happens when you pit a Model S P90D against a 2018 Ford Mustang GT in a 1/4-mile race? Unfortunately for Ford, the Tesla wins by a mile, figuratively speaking. To be precise, the Tesla beat the Ford by 11.56 seconds to 12.44...
This Thursday, August 23, Jay Leno's Garage will feature the next-gen Tesla Roadster (2020). Here's a preview of Leno talking to Tesla's Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen in a tidbit teased on CNBC last Friday:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNl6hYxQCk8The new generation Roadster is expected to...
After the fashion of Apple Inc., which regularly hides Easter eggs in new versions of iOS, Tesla, too, loves to hide Easter eggs in its software, and has been doing so for years. In the Model 3, the very...
The Model 3 standard battery is now expected to have an acceleration time of 5.1 to 5.6 seconds going from 0-60 mph, according to new information spotted by a Reddit user on Tesla's website.The specs clearly show two variants:...
Disclaimer: Hacking into someone's Tesla is not cool.A hacker from search engine company Qwant has revealed at least three ways a hacker can use to take control or access the workings of a Tesla Model X. The hacker, Gael Musquet,...
Elon Musk dropped more than a few gold nuggets in a recent interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee. One of those was that it would take him three years to develop a $25,000 Tesla. We covered that earlier, but here's another...
The aftermath of the Elon Musk interview with the New York Times wasn't pretty. Billions of dollars were wiped out of Tesla's market capitalization, thanks to titles like these: Tesla's in Turmoil, is the game over for Elon Musk? Tesla investors...
In an August 15 interview posted to YouTube, Elon Musk talks about how making a $25,000 car would take him about three years. In that conversation, Musk likens the development of such an affordable EV to the development of...
Reports have emerged over the past day that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Board of Directors will meet with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as soon as the week of August 20, 2018. The focal point of...
With the Tesla Model 3 production numbers now confirmed by multiple sources as being "over 5,000 cars a week", Musk's latest EV may hit the #5 or #6 position in the U.S. best-seller list for August 2018. It could...
With much of the focus on Tesla's business and Musk's actions of late, it's easy to forget why the company exists: to make sustainable road transportation on a mass scale a reality. And that reality was reinvoked by Tesla...
It must be hard being Elon Musk, the CEO of one of the most controversial companies of our time. But Musk is controversial by his own right, and in an interview with the New York Times, the highly-regarded-yet-widely-criticized entrepreneur...
If you go by industry trends, it's not unfeasible to imagine that future cars will all be electric. And, as readers of 1redDrop will know, electric cars barely make any noise.While this absence of noise is wonderful for passengers,...
Martin Tripp has been in the spotlight over the past several weeks for reportedly maligning Tesla Inc. with accusations of misleading investors and putting its Model 3 buyers at risk. Today, his exit from Twitter was cause for much...
Even as Tesla buyers struggle with the tax credit phase-out in the United States, countries like Canada and Germany appear to be doing their best to kill green energy initiatives where Tesla is involved.In Canada, Premier Doug Ford's government...