When Congress passed the landmark Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) in December 2007, the media and Capitol Hill focused heavily on the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standard. Congress increased the standard from 27.5 mpg to 35 mpg by 2020, marking the first time the CAFE average had been raised since the 1970s. Almost entirely [...]

In October, Stephen Casner and his wife Karen toured the Lotus factory in England as their Roadster rolled off the assembly line. They took delivery at the Menlo Park store three weeks later. Stephen, who has written several other blogs about Tesla, describes the tour and his first impressions with the car. Stephen Casner spent 25 [...]

While U.S. Republicans and Democrats were fighting it out across the pond in late October, VP19 was busy creating its own political agenda in the United Kingdom. Everyone agrees electric vehicles are the future — but Tesla is simultaneously proving they are also the right car right now. To show other people what we at Tesla [...]

Tesla engineers have been keenly focused for some time on the 1.5 powertrain, which we have been testing extensively both on roads and at closed facilities. We have our own data collection kit, but we wanted to see what sort of performance figures we would get from a public track. The nearest venue to our [...]

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp Executive Vice President Mitsuo Kinoshita speaks at a news conference in Tokyo November 6, 2008. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

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(Reuters) - The reflection of a showroom employee is seen on a car at Toyota Motor Corp's showroom in Tokyo in this July 16, 2008 file photo. (Issei Kato - JAPAN/Reuters)

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(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp Executive Vice President Mitsuo Kinoshita speaks at a news conference in Tokyo November 6, 2008. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

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(Reuters) - A visitor looks at Toyota Motor Corp's cars in its showroom in Tokyo November 6, 2008. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

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(Reuters) - A man walks past a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo November 6, 2008. Japan's Nikkei average slid 6.5 percent on Thursday to its biggest one-day loss in nearly two weeks, with Toyota Motor Corp tumbling on earnings fears and other exporters hit by a stronger yen amid jitters over the global economy. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN)

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(AFP/File) - The logo of Japanese auto giant Toyota at a car show in Detroit, Michigan. The multinational motoring giant has slashed its profit forecast, warning the global auto industry faces an "unprecedented" crisis as Asian stocks tumbled on fears the US is sinking deeper towards recession.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)

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