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With $350M Infusion, Tesla Adds Minivans, Crossovers, and Fleet Vans to Line of EVs

Tesla Motors--they made that cute all-electric Roadster no one actually owns--wants you to know the money they received from the government is NOT the same money that bailed out Detroit, but rather a loan from the DOE to accelerate ...READ»

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Tesla Lawsuit Drama Ends as Five Company Founders Emerge

After months of squabbling, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and founder Martin Eberhard have finally made up.Tesla is known as much for its high-profile electric cars as for its dramatic internal bickering. Recently, departed company ...READ»

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Fisker, Kleiner Perkins Team Up for $39,000 Plug-in Hybrid Mystery Car

Fisker Automotive is best known for pissing off Tesla Motors and introducing the Karma, an $80,000 luxury plug-in hybrid set to debut later this year. Turns out the startup company has another trick up its sleeve: a $39,000 ...READ»

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Tesla Hits the Jackpot: $465 Million in DOE Loans

Finally, some good news for beleaguered electric vehicle startup Tesla Motors. Only a day after CEO Elon Musk wrote a long blog post defending himself and his company against rumors and accusations, Tesla has been awarded approval ...READ»

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Change-Agent Designs: They Inspire You to Do the Right Thing

While designs are often the result of great inspiration, I'm even more interested in designs that themselves inspire. I'm a great believer in design's power to effect positive change in the world. Understandably, the first job ...READ»

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Why Does Tesla Get All the Love? It's Selling California, Not Cars

Yesterday, Tesla Motors fulfilled its stereotype as a Silicon Valley startup by botching the unveiling of its second major product launch, the four-door Model S sedan. The feverish response to the news--from Digg co-founder Kevin ...READ»

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Tesla's Model S Sedan Concept Car Unveiled: Why We Need Even More Teslas

Tesla, the electric vehicle (EV) maker best known for its outlandishly-priced roadster EV, unveiled its newest, the Model S Sedan, this afternoon at the offices of CEO Elon Musk's other startup, SpaceX.READ»

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Fast 50 Follow-Up: 10 Companies We Missed

When we last checked in with innovation expert Dev Patnaik, CEO of growth-strategy firm Jump Associates, he was chiding us for heralding company innovations--as opposed to innovative companies--on last year’s Fast Company 50. ...READ»

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