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Tesla Motors has some good news for fans of the American maker of electric cars. The Model S -- its first reasonably priced vehicle -- may hit the streets as early as June. Will this be the vehicle that jump starts electric car sales?

Bad news for GM: The Chevy Volt still isn't selling the way the automaker hoped it would, so it's temporarily halting production of the battery-powered hybrids for five weeks. Worse news for GM: Shutdowns like this only make the Volt a harder sell.

The electric car has arrived, but odds are that there isn't one in your driveway. Several factors have gotten in the way of the eco-friendly automotive revolution, but at least now we can ask conspiracy theorists -- who argue that oil companies and the government are blocking plug-in cars from the road -- to leave the room and take their tinfoil hats with them. The electric car is here; drivers simply don't want them yet.

If you think a stock will fall, you can still profit on it -- by shorting it: Just sell shares you've "borrowed," then buy them later, ideally at a lower price. But it can be risky. Here are 5 companies you might be tempted to bet that way against -- and shouldn't.

Tesla Motors, which went public with much fanfare last June, nearly tripled its losses for 2010 as it invested heavily to engineer and get ready for producing the Model S, its second offering and the first that targets a broader consumer market.

The automaker has licensed technology from the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory that will boost the performance of lithium-ion battery cells for its electric Chevy Volt. The next-generation power packs will be made at a new plant in Michigan by Korea's LG Chem.

Electric-car manufacturer Tesla Motors said Friday it plans to sell stock to the public. The company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., did not disclose in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission specifically how much it plans to raise though it listed $100 million as a placeholder figure....

Get a room, you two. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Martin Eberhard, two of the co-founders of the electric car startup, have kissed and made up in a mutual love-fest, ending a bitter legal battle over the company's origins. Eberhard, a former Tesla CEO, had sued the company in May, charging Musk with...

Last week Tesla Motors, the red-hot electric car startup, announced it would use some of its $465 million in stimulus funds to start a drive-train manufacturing plant in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley. Tesla is bucking a trend in bringing manufacturing jobs to the Golden State. But with...

Silicon Valley electronic car darling Tesla Motors banked a profit of $1 million in July, based on $20 million in revenues brought in through delivery of 109 of its $109,000 sports cars. I had the rare chance to drive a Tesla and can say that if I had a spare six-figure inheritance in my...