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 […]

Ben Rosen, venture capitalist and former chairman of Compaq, is one of the most influential personalities in the technology industry. Under his leadership, Compaq Computer became one of the first companies to clone IBM’s PC design, enabling Compaq to become the world’s largest PC maker in the 1990s.
Less well known is Ben’s history as an […]

These are extraordinary times. The global financial system has gone through the worst crisis since the Great Depression, and the effects are only beginning to wind their way through every facet of the economy. It’s not an understatement to say that nearly every business will be impacted by what has unfolded in the past weeks, […]

Nine Tesla employees stormed Seattle last weekend on a four-day sales and marketing blitz. The trip was a great success – not only for 80 customers and media who got to drive the car but for those of us at Tesla scouting the perfect location for a Seattle-area store, which we are planning to open […]

I’m happy to announce a major milestone in the history of Tesla Motors – the construction of a state-of-the-art assembly plant and consolidated corporate campus in the heart of Silicon Valley.
For those of you who know the area, Tesla’s new home will be just off Zanker Road and Highway 237 in North San Jose. The […]

Have you ever wondered how much the electrons that power our car weigh?

As I was musing over the properties of our Tesla Roadster electric car the other day I was drawn to the single most massive component of our car which is the battery. This nearly 1000 pound system is composed of various chemicals, enclosures, […]

Ce mois de Juillet nous avons rendu hommage au Royaume d’Elizabeth en sillonnant l’Angleterre afin de présenter le Roadster dans ce pays dans lequel il est aujourd’hui assemblé. Notre campagne a commencé à Londres, au très sélect club Hurlingham, un manoir et un parc privé de plusieurs hectares au cÅ“ur de la ville, dédié à […]

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering changes to the Zero Emission Vehicle Program (also commonly known as the “ZEV Mandate”). If you’ve seen Who Killed the Electric Car? you have an idea of what the ZEV Mandate is and how its implementation has been challenged and impeded by traditional auto manufacturers for more […]

Ken Jacobs was one of the first employees at the relational database pioneer Oracle Corporation. He and his wife Margaret are thrilled to be early adopters and advocates for the pioneering Tesla, the car and the company.

My wife and I, returning home to the US from a week in Morocco, spent a couple of […]