Tesla unveils Model X SUV
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The Tesla Model X debut was much-anticipated among electric car fans.
Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk unveiled his electric car company's third vehicle Thursday night —a sport-utility vehicle with "gull-wing" doors that he plans to start selling next year.
The vehicle is the second that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) plans to assemble at the Fremont factory where Toyota and GM used to make cars.
Orders are being taken but pricing and driving range figures were not provided. The SUVs qualify for a $7,500 federal tax credit that is aimed at encouraging electric vehicle sales.
The Model X is touted as being faster than a Porsche 911 sports car, going from 0 to 60 in just five seconds.
The gull-wing style doors which the company is calling "falcon wings" open upwards like some old Mercedes and like the fabled but doomed DeLorean DMC-12 sports car.
The prototype was shown at an event Thursday night in Hawthorne attended by Claifornia Gov. Jerry Brown and film director Jon Favreau.
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