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Tesla (Nasdaq:TSLA), or TSLA as it will trade under on Nasdaq, has been priced at $17 per share, allowing the electric car start-up to raise more than $226 million in its IPO. Investors were expecting the share price target range to be between $14 and $16 but the overflow of excitement saw Tesla increase the number of shares it plans to offer to 13.3 million, nearly 20 percent more than originally planned. Most of that excitement is riding on news of the upcoming Model S electric sedan, which is expected to go on sale in 2012 priced at around $50,000. News also broke recently that the company...
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Ford Helps Protect Small Cars From Big SUVs
New Curve Control Corrects For Excessive Corner Entry Speed
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2011 Chevrolet Volt Makes the News: The EV Controversy
GM Refutes Claims That Gasoline Motor Will Power Drivetrain Directly
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Has The 2011 Volt Become A Hybrid Instead Of An EV? GM Says No.
Is one of the most anticipated EVs to launch this year nothing more than a plug-in-hybrid? Or has miscommunication led to a rumor that the 2011 Chevy Volt will run on gasoline only at highway speed? In an article for the U.K's Telegraph newspaper, motoring journalist Andrew English shared his...
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UPDATED: GM To Re-Engineer 2011 Volt To Operate On Gasoline-Only Power At High Speeds
Poor performance in European testing for the Opel/Vauxhall Ampera and Chevrolet Volt have prompted the shift in strategy.
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2011 Elantra, 2012 Focus: 40 MPG Without Hybrid Fuss
Hybrid technology's responsible for those airy fuel economy numbers from the likes of the Honda Civic Hybrid and the Toyota Prius, but the 40-mpg barrier's about to be broken by a pair of compact cars--without any batteries or hybrid add-ons whatsoever. Earlier this year, we showed you the 2012...
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If you're shopping for a hybrid vehicle, time is drawing to a close to take advantage of the Federal government's hybrid tax credits. But before those credits expire at the end of 2010, there's one new hybrid you'll want to add to your shopping list: the upcoming 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. It's expected to go on sale sometime in October or November, and Hyundai hopes to sell about 14,000 copies of its Sonata Hybrid annually, but the financial incentives to be an early adopter will be strong. In all, they could bring the price of the Sonata Hybrid down to about $21,000, which would make it...
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Gordon Murray's T25 Minicar Finally Revealed
News of Gordon Murray's decision to build a low-cost minicar created quite a stir when it was announced last year. That stir was in part because of the key driving force behind the project, Gordon Murray, ex-McLaren F1 designer and the pen behind the Caparo T1 supercar, but also because the car...
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Honda Spotlights Fuel Efficiency As New Company Focus
Will Fuel Economy Keep Honda Ahead Of the Competition
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Smart Fortwo Goes Greener With Electrification
The Long Awaited Production EV Version Starts To Hit the Market
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USA Today Waits For Good GM Small Car. Can the Cruze Live Up?
While Some Point Out the Failures, We Look At the Success
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2011 Mazda2: Fiesta Copy Or Innovative Platform Sharer
There Is More To the Mazda2 Than One Might Think
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Sales will be more than 1.4 million units.
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Five Things EVs Will Need To Do Before They Become Mainstream.
Let's face it. EVs are still a very small, very niche market. Expensive, short on supply and not even universally supported throughout the USA there are a whole series of achievements EVs will need to attain before they are considered regular cars. Here's the five most important things EVs will...
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2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI: Good For Going Green But Light On the Speed?
Diesel Versus the Base Model
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Hyundai’s First Dedicated Hybrid Coming In 2012
Now ranked as the world’s fifth-largest automaker in conjunction with its Kia subsidiary, Hyundai is making strides to build a product line that reflects its status among the world’s top manufacturers. With the world’s first hybrid vehicle powered by advanced lithium-polymer batteries and...
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Video: What Would A Toyota Prius Say About You?
We already know that many Toyota Prius owners have a very special bond with their cars. It’s this connection with the Prius that many rival automakers would love to emulate but are struggling to do so. Mention the word “hybrid” and the first vehicle almost everyone will think of is...
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2011 Honda Accord Promises A Fuel Economy Boost
Some models may gain as much as three miles per gallon.
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Unless you've been asleep for the past two months the chances are that you already know that Tesla Motors is about to launch it's IPO. You're probably also aware that predicted investment from the IPO is now at $178 million, up $78 million from original estimates. But just how is Elon Musk, Tesla's larger-than-life CEO and reputed inspiration behind Tony Stark, the mutli-billionaire playboy in the Iron Man films, planning on getting folks to invest? By comparing Tesla to two of Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies. In a video filmed in preparation for Tesla's IPO, Musk takes great care...
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Video: Pearl’s Story – The Life Of A Toyota Prius
Imagine if your car could talk. What would it say about you? While for the immediate future, this is largely an impossibility, one aspiring actress based on the “West Side” has envisaged just what it could be like if cars were able to talk. Alyssa Price, the proud owner of a Toyota Prius and...
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2010 Camaro SS: Muscle Comes Back To GM
We Drive It On and Off the Track And Gather Our Impressions
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Why Early Adopters of EVs Won’t Suffer Range Anxiety.
If most mainstream media outlets are to be listened to we are a few short years from seeing stranded EVs dotting our major highways after running out of electricity short of the next charging station, but is this really an accurate depiction of what life with an EV will be like? While traditional...
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Test Drive A Chevrolet Volt With Microsoft’s New Kinect For Xbox 360
Microsoft’s New Kinect For Xbox 360 is about to revolutionize the way we play video games, while the upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt will do the same in terms of the type of cars we drive. Now the two technology pioneers have come together, with new car buyers soon to have a new way of getting...
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Microsoft Offering Virtual Chevy Volt Test Drives With Kinect For Xbox 360
We’ve heard a lot about the upcoming 2011 Chevrolet Volt, read up on all the specs, even seen a few videos of prototypes doing the rounds at GM proving grounds around Michigan, but sadly, for the great majority of Americans, getting a feel for what the Volt is really like to drive is still months...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran