We've been writing about the Tesla Roadster for more than a year, and Tesla Motors finally gave us the chance to drive one. For two hours. Around town. With a PR flack riding shotgun. Despite the short leash, we pushed the electric sports car hard enough to know it's quick, nimble and fun — but no...

Enraged by leaks at his troubled Silicon Valley electric carmaker, CEO Elon Musk cooked up a sophisticated electronic scheme to catch the blabbers. It backfired hilariously on the brilliant entrepreneur, who's a bit blabby himself. Tesla Motors is an icon of the new Silicon Valley, which is placing ...

We have featured tesla coils music before but, if there's a music piece these things were created for, that has to be the Imperial March. Someone put Luke in between those, please. [Star Wars Blog]...

  There are now 200 high-performance electric Tesla Roadsters in customers’ hands, but still at least 1,000 waiting for their keys. This situation is producing pent-up demand: in September, some eager beaver paid $160,000 for a used example of this $109,000 sports car. I encountered my first East...

When reading the newsletter that electric car startup Tesla Motors sent to customers this morning, you could hardly be blamed for thinking the company had a Department of Energy loan in the bag. “Regarding funding,” writes CEO Elon Musk, “I am excited to report that the Department ...

YouTube via eastvoltresearch. I thought I posted this one before, but apparently not. I must have been thinking of this post."A quick and dirty demonstration of the XenoSonic Audio Interface. A Yamaha S03 Synthesizer is hooked up directly to the miniBrute DRSSTC via the XenoSonic Audio Interface. Si...

Tesla Motors has effectively raised the price of its all-electric Roadster by at least $6,700, a move the Silicon Valley firm says is needed to ensure its survival. The price hike affects 400 people who placed deposits on 2008 Roadsters and are still awaiting delivery. They must now must pay thousan...

Steven Chu established himself as a well-known scientist and administrator years ago, running the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winning a Nobel Prize. He has called for urgent action on climate change and (now famously) described coal as his “worst nightmare,” so cheers from ...

Automakers kicked off this year’s North American International Auto Show, commonly called the Detroit Auto Show, yesterday with less glitz and more conspicuous frugality than in years past. But new plans for hybrid and electric models were hardly in short supply. Things picked up again this mo...

Sports car maker Lotus plans to enter the electric vehicle race, CEO Michael Kimberley told the Financial Times last week. “Don’t be surprised to see an electric Lotus shortly,” he said, adding that a concept version could debut as early as March, at Geneva’s International Mo...