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After a Wired article demonstrated how security researchers could remotely disable a new Jeep Cherokee by worming into the car’s infotainment system, automakers are under increased scrutiny over their digital security.

On Thursday, August 6, Tesla Motors took to Twitter to share a video of the proposed snake-like charger’s prototype, which is capable of attaching automatically to a Model S. He tweeted at the end of the year that he’s working on a charger that comes out of the garage...

For the following year, however, Tesla is looking at being able to produce between 1,600 and 1,800 Model S and Model X vehicles per week. The company lowered its annual sales outlook citing pricing pressure as the dollar continues to strengthen against other currencies.

Shares of Tesla Motors plunged Thursday after investors poked through the company’s earnings report and subsequent conference call and uncovered some unsettling prospects for the maker of electric vehicles. Tesla has been heavily spending in anticipation of its newer models.

Tesla said it will reveal the design of its Model 3 – a $US35,000 “mass-market” auto – in the first quarter. As of now, the upcoming model is in road testing phase, and the firm is ramping its production to meet the pre-orders by this year.

The Model X is Tesla’s very first SUV model, which the company claims will be the first electric vehicle that can tow.

Model X and Model 3Tesla said in its second-quarter letter to shareholders that its upcoming fully electric SUV, Model X, “remains on track for start of deliveries in late Q3″. Therefore, “in a choice between a great product or hitting quarterly numbers, we will...

The owner gets the “cash” as a Tesla credit toward future purchases or service charges, and the purchaser gets , 000 off the price of the vehicle.

If so, he had an idea (a “secret weapon”) that would both do that and stick it to the stupid, greedy dealerships working to keep or kick Tesla out of their states. “New orders must be placed prior to October 31, 2015”. And in a conference call with...

Announcing this program today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that it is a way for the company to possibly save money.

“First of all, it’s good for the quarterly results, having a higher number of deliveries”, Robert W. Baird analyst Ben Kallo told IBD.