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Another milestone for Tesla Motors, the maker of the Tesla Roadster Electric Car: Their Santa-Monica store has opened its doors yesterday. It should soon be followed by one in Silicon Valley.

Tesla has also been doing a PR tour in Europe lately, showing off the Euro-spec version of the electric Roadster (300+hp with a 13,000rpm red-line, instead of the 248 hp listed for the US version). Now all they need is for more cars to be coming out of the assembly line. As we previously reported, the first production unit was delivered to Tesla chairman Elo…

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Courtesy of AutoblogGreen’s Sebastian Blanco and CNET’s Michael Kanellos comes the news that Tesla Motors is hard at work on a gas-electric hybrid version of its upcoming all-electric Whitestar sedan; both models are due out toward the end of 2009. Range is the main concern driving the production of the Whitestar REV, or range-ex…

It bears a slight, unfortunate resemblance to the AMC Gremlin - that funny box of a car produced for just a few years during the 1970s. And it certainly can’t hold a candle to the sleek new Tesla. But Norway’s electric car Buddy, which ElbilNorge AB just started producing in larger quantities at its factory near Oslo, has a few things going for it.

It’s a good example of greener technology that doesn’t necessarily cost more, for one. Right now Buddy is available in Norway for about 135,000 Norwegian crowns (US $25,000). That might seem spendy to a US buyer, but in Norway only three gas-driven models - Kia’s ‘Picant…