Tesla Model S outscores every other car in Consumer Reports ratings

And just to put a cherry on top, the notoriously tough Consumer Reports writers say that the $89,650 Tesla Model S comes close, and just may be, the best car ever.

Tesla stock jumps 31% after record $562M in sales and first-ever quarterly profit

Electric car manufacturer Tesla's stock jumped in after-hours trading today after the company announced the first quarterly profit in the its 10-year history and record sales of over half a billion dollars in the first quarter of 2013.

Bad karma: Electric car pioneer Fisker loses co-founder, chairman, and designer Henrik Fisker

Apparently, it's not easy starting a brand new car manufacturing company.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper: ‘We are not the home of the free, land of the brave anymore’

Legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper is worried about America running out of heroes. And he's not talking about Superman or the Hulk.

Geek power: The Oatmeal has raised over $1.1M for a Nikola Tesla museum

Web comic The Oatmeal has raised an extraordinary $1.1 million on Indiegogo to build a museum dedicated to influential inventor Nikola Tesla.

Nvidia aims to knock Intel out of supercomputers with ARM CPUs and graphics chips

Nvidia is forging ahead with its plans to revolutionize supercomputers and workstations with a number of announcements today. Among them, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center will be the first in the world to adopt a solution that combines Nvidia’s low-power ARM-based …

Oak Ridge National Labs uses AMD and Nvidia chips for world’s biggest supercomputer

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory plans to create what could become the world’s most powerful supercomputer based on a Cray supercomputer with 18,000 microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices and an equal number of Nvidia graphics chips.

The supercomputer will pave …

Tesla recalls 439 Roadsters

Tesla is recalling 439 Roadsters after a single incident in which a low-voltage auxiliary wire rubbed up against a carbon fiber panel in the car causing a short, smoke and “possible fire” behind the right front headlamp, the company reports.…