Tesla today updated the number of pre-orders for its upcoming Model 3 sedan, which will have a starting price of $35,000. So far, potential buyers have plopped down a collective $325 million to reserve cars.

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It won't shock you to hear that Tesla low-balled demand for the Model 3, but by how much? Er... quite a bit, actually. Elon Musk has revealed that his company expected "1/4 to 1/2" of the pre-orders it got (252,000 worldwide as of this writing) for its first semi-affordable electric car. While he'd expected lineups at Tesla stores, he figured that there would be "maybe 20-30 people" in queue at a given shop -- not the hundreds that showed up at some places. As a token of appreciation...

Tesla says its Model 3 will be the best $35,000 car you can buy.

It seems Tesla is set to bump the battery capacity of its Model S sedan up to a hefty 100kWh some time in the near future. We know this thanks to the work of a white-hat hacker and Tesla P85D owner named Jason Hughes. Hughes—who previously turned the battery pack from a wrecked Tesla into a storage array for his solar panels—was poking around in the latest firmware of his Model S (version 2.13.77) and discovered an image of...

The Tesla Model 3 may very well be the most highly anticipated vehicle the car industry has seen in years. Set to be unveiled on March 31 with mass production and deliveries slated to begin in late 2017, the Model 3 represents the culmination of Elon Musk’s big bet on electric vehicles leaping into the mainstream. And with a pricetag of $35,000 before incentives, the car will certainly be affordable enough to have a significant impact on the auto industry at large.

Continuing drops in lithium-ion battery prices mean that electric vehicles (EVs) will be less expensive to own than gas or diesel-powered vehicles as soon as the 2020s, according to a new report. The report, by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, calculated that EVs' total cost of ownership will become cheaper on an unsubsidized basis than that of internal combustion engine cars by the mid-2020s. This will occur even if gas-powered...

Tesla Motors Inc. prevailed Thursday in Indiana, where lawmakers sidelined a bill that would have kicked the company out of the state unless it establishes dealerships. Tesla, led by Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, is licensed to sell its electric cars directly to consumers in Indiana and has operated one store in Indianapolis for two years. State Representative Kevin Mahan introduced a bill, which General Motors Co. lobbying helped to create...

Tesla and Radio Flyer — yep, the company best known for the little red wagon that parents all over the U.S. use to drag their kids around their neighborhoods — are about to launch a little electric Model S for kids. Like any good Tesla, the Model S for Kids is obviously powered by batteries. The standard model comes with a 140 Wh lithium-ion battery pack and if you want to splurge, you can also pay an extra $50 for a 190 Wh battery pack that promises “50 percent more playtime.”

Driven by rapidly plummeting battery costs, two of the world's leading electric vehicle (EV) makers say they will soon deliver 200+ mile range EVs at a game-changing price of $30,000 or less.

With a new baby on the way, I was in the market for a new vehicle. I scheduled a test-drive with Tesla Motors (Tesla) in mid-November, and was on the fence about purchasing a Tesla. I had some questions which I emailed my test-drive consultant, but didn’t receive any response and I wasn’t particularly in love with the car, so I let it go. A few weeks later, I was talking to a friend of mine who had just leased a Tesla. I explained my experience, and how I felt the price...

Ever wondered about the benefits of electric cars for those of us that don’t want to sacrifice performance simply to drive an eco car ? What about how the Tesla Model S would perform against a high performance race car? In this video we find out when the crew from caradvice.com put the Tesla Model S through its paces against a 650+ horsepower V8 racing supercar and the world’s fastest four-door production car in a drag race of epic proportions.

Do you think Tesla's new Summon self-parking feature is neat? Well, CEO Elon Musk says that's just the beginning.

Elon Musk is trying to change the world—even if that means leaving it

Porsche committed to making its first all-electric vehicle, taking on Tesla Motors Inc. with a model that’s set to accelerate faster than the German company’s 911 sports car and recharge in 15 minutes. Porsche green-lighted a 1 billion-euro ($1.09 billion) project to produce the battery-powered sports car, which will be manufactured near division headquarters in Stuttgart and create 1,000 jobs, the Volkswagen AG unit said Friday in a statement.

Tesla Motors Inc. said it’s conducting its largest-ever recall of all 90,000 Model S cars because of a single report of a front seat belt not being properly connected. The shares fell. “Tesla recently found a Model S in Europe with a front seat belt that was not properly connected to the outboard lap pretensioner,” the company said in an e-mail to customers Friday. “This vehicle was not involved in a crash and there were no injuries.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (indirectly) made a striking admission yesterday: the autonomous driving features his company recently launched are too dangerous. On an earnings call with investors, Musk said that “additional constraints” will be added in response to evidence that people have pushed the feature too far. “There’s been some fairly crazy videos on YouTube,” he said. “This is not good.”

A Vancouver car thief chose the worst possible target — a trackable Tesla — in what appears to be one of the first cases of that make being reported stolen in Canada. Katya Pinkowski and a friend left a concert near Granville Street on Thursday night and headed to an underground parking lot to hop into Pinkowski’s beloved dark blue Tesla Model S 85D, bought last year from the Vancouver store.

Tesla has already begun production at their $5 billion battery factory, according to the company’s third quarter 2015 shareholder letter. In October, production of Tesla’s Powerpacks and Powerwalls moved from Fremont to an automated assembly line at the Gigafactory. The early move, which appears to have occurred months before originally planned, was due to growing demand for Tesla Energy products. The move will delay many deliveries of energy products from late 2015 to early 2016...

AT 10:03 AM Wednesday, a red Tesla Model S P85D with the license plate “UBER QIK” arrived at a parking garage on East 31st Street in Manhattan. This is noteworthy only because that very car was at the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, California, just two and a half days earlier. The Model S crossed the country in record time for an EV—and drove itself nearly the entire way.