Filed under: Coupe , Performance , Etc. , Europe , Technology , Specialty , Electric , Luxury We have good news for you if you’re missing the Tesla Roadster already. German manufacturer PG has unveiled the company’s new Elektrus, a Lotus-based sports EV with some very wild styling.
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PG Elektrus is yet another crack at electrifying a Lotus Elise
Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Tesla , Electric Four years and 2,600 Roadsters later, Tesla is putting its first production vehicle out to pasture at the end of this year. But how do you celebrate the last of a breed? A sports car that put Tesla on the map?
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Exclusive: This is the last Tesla Roadster
Filed under: Concept Cars , Tokyo Motor Show , Hatchback , Nissan , Electric Sitting inside Nissan’s Smart House perched above the automaker’s booth here at the Tokyo Motor Show was a fitting setting to talk about Nissan’s plans for future electric vehicles. The mock building was being powered by a Leaf , with the EV parked below and connected through the Leaf-to-Home system. Within a few minutes of starting my interview with Hideaki Watanabe, Nissan’s corporate VP of the Zero Emissions Business Unit, the lights flickered on and the ceiling fan began to spin. For a country just beginning to recover from the March 11th tsunami, being able to pull extra energy from an EV during a blackout would be indispensable.
Filed under: Coupe , Technology , BMW , First Drives , Electric BMW Gets Electrified, But Am I? For over a year, I’ve been looking for a way to get into an electric vehicle, but my options have been decidedly limited. I’m either lacking the funds ( Tesla Roadster ) or the alternatives have lacked character ( Mitsubishi i , Focus Electric ). But now there’s this: The 2012 BMW ActiveE .
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First Drive: 2012 BMW ActiveE
Filed under: Convertible , Performance , Government/Legal , UK , Celebrities , Tesla , Electric Tesla’s libel suit against Top Gear was dealt a crushing blow with London’s court ruling that no Top Gear viewer would have reasonably assumed the Tesla Roadster’s on-track performance on the show relates to its real-world capabilities. As you might recall, Top Gear ‘s review of the Roadster concluded by claiming that, “In the real world, it doesn’t seem to work” ( watch it here ). But that’s just Top Gear being, well, Top Gear , implies Justice Tugendhat: In my judgment, the words complained of are wholly incapable of conveying any meaning at all to the effect that the claimant misled anyone. This is because the contrast between the style of driving and the nature of the track as compared with the conditions on a public road are so great that no reasonable person could understand that the performance on the track is capable of a direct comparison with a public road
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Report: Court rules Top Gear did not libel Tesla
In a victory for common sense, a judge has ruled Top Gear did not commit libel when they said the Tesla Roadster could only travel 55 miles on the track.
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Top Gear cleared of libel charges in Tesla lawsuit