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Tesla Motors announced what most in the industry probably saw coming: their in-house platform for the Model S sedan will be in later models too. Using a platform to create a series of vehicle models is nothing new and is, in fact, standard practice in the industry. The new models planned include a minivan, a crossover SUV, and a utility van.

Read More: Tesla Moves Towards the Future With the Model S Platform

A new publicity promo from Tesla Motors has been released, featuring the 2011 Model S and chief designer Franz von Holzhausen. The Model S is to be Tesla’s first totally in-house design.

Read More: Video: Tesla Model S Commercial

Tesla Motors unveiled the new Model S sedan at the end of march and in ten days has taken reservations for 520 cars and counting. For the bean counters, that’s $2.6 million in deposits (at $5,000 per car). The Model S doesn’t begin production until late 2011.

Read More: Tesla S Pre-Sells 520 Cars in a Week

After the Model S was revealed the other day, paying customers got the opportunity to test drive the vehicle they’ve been waiting so long to receive. The customer at the top of that list, Steve Jurvetson, got the first opportunity, and a ride with Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself showing off Tesla’s new EV.

Read More: VIDEO: Elon Musk Gives First Model S Buyer Test Drive

The hot news right now is the unveiling of the Tesla Model S sedan, which happened with much anticipation and fanfare. Also released were the specifications for this new car from Tesla Motors. Shortly after it’s unveiling, we featured an article on it here at Zoomi Life, where I gave my impressions of the vehicle and it’s looks.

Read More: Unveiling of the Tesla Model S Uncovers New Specs Too

As reported just yesterday, the Tesla S has unveiled and our friends at LeftLane were there to document it. If you missed the streaming video of the event, don’t worry. Plenty of photos are up on display over at LeftLane (a few of which are on this post).

Read More: Tesla Model S Unveiled

Tesla has announced that the Model S will be priced at $57,400 (base), rather than at $60k as originally stated. The reason for the price drop? After government incentives, the price of the S will be under $50k and the company has streamlined much of their supply chain.

Read More: Tesla Announces Price Drop for S Model - Under $50k?

Tesla has just released a teaser photo of their upcoming Model S electric car on their blog. Most of the car is covered and there’s not much to see. As we mentioned recently, the Tesla Model S is due to be a 5 door hatchback capable of seating four.

Read More: Tesla Releases Model S Teaser Photo

Tesla Motors made three major announcements in a press release today: the Model S will be in street-drivable form in March, the Department of Energy loaned them $350 million, and they’ll be solvent by mid-year this year (even without the loan).

Read More: Tesla Gets $350m Loan, To Unveil Model S in March, Go On Sale In 2011