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Tesla patents β€˜Electric Fan Car’ with 4 ducted fans ahead of Roadster reveal

29 September 2026 at 15:02

Tesla was just granted a patent for an β€œElectric Fan Car,” a system that uses four electric ducted fans in the rear diffuser to suck the car down to the road at any speed. The car in the drawings is a Model S, which Tesla stopped building in April.

It’s Tesla’s second fan car patent in just over a year, and it arrives two weeks before the company’s latest attempt at a Roadster demo.

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Musk says Tesla to β€˜open source’ Model S and X, but prior release makes us skeptical

25 July 2026 at 00:38

Elon Musk says Tesla plans to β€œopen source” the Model S and Model X, and he’s pointing to the original Roadster as the template.

The problem is Tesla’s Roadster release amounted to eight files on GitHub plus five document packages behind a login, with no open-source license attached to any of it.

Someone is flipping Tesla Model S Signature for $260,000 β€” $100K+ markup

15 July 2026 at 14:53

A New Jersey dealer is trying to flip a barely-driven Tesla Model S Signature for $259,995 β€” roughly $100,000 more than what Tesla charged buyers for the collector’s edition.

The car carries VIN #71 and just 297 miles on the odometer, and it’s listed at J&S Autohaus in Ewing, New Jersey, for more than double the price of a standard Model S Plaid.

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