Here we have the first Tesla video that shows a Model S and a Roadster driving side-by-side in sweet, silent unison. Both electric cars are a joy to look at and any new videos of the Model S in action are always appreciated.

Model S production is expected to begin in the middle of 2012 but electric vehicle fans are already hungry for 7-person seating EV sedan with its various models that have a range as high as 300 miles on a single charge and 120 mph top speed.

Tesla Motors changed the public face of electric cars with its high-speed, all-electric Roadster. The Roadster accomplished its goal of grabbing attention, changing public perception and selling a few high-end electric sports cars. Now it’s time to shift focus as in two months from now Tesla is getting serious and committing itself to the upcoming Model S.

The Tesla Models S will be significantly cheaper than the Roadster and will offer a great deal more practicality along with its lack of a tailpipe as well as some seriously flashy features inclusing: seating for seven passengers, very long battery ranges dependent on the model (160, 230, or 300 miles), 45 minute QuickCharge, 0-60 in 5.6 seconds, 120 mph top speed, and 17-inch touch screen with 3G to name a few.

Model S production is currently slated to begin in mid-2012.

It’s hard not to get into the ever increasing polarization of America when you watch something like Neil Cavuto’s interview of Fabio on Fox News.

Cavuto’s ignorance is outstripped only by his arrogance as he denounces electric cars as a “dumb idea.” The whole thing is truly painful to watch as Cavuto refuses to budge on his one and only talking point, that he doesn’t believe that Fabio can fit into a Tesla Roadster. You can watch the video of Fabio on Fox news yourself, but consider yourself warned. It’s painful to watch.

Fabio’s presence on the show was precipitated by his appearance in new Plug In America ads.

Tesla has just announced a recall on 439 of its Rodasters due to a recently discovered redundant auxiliary cable rubbing against a panel. The cable, which acts as a backup to the primary wire for various electrical systems, was apparently lacking a protective sleeve it required.

This is only a concern for 2.0 and 2.5 Tesla Roadsters so those who were first up getting their Roadsters will be rewarded with not having to get their high-end electric cars in as the 1.5 versions are fine.

Not that those who do need work done really have much in way of being inconvenience. Tesla Motors service rangers will come to owner’s homes and office and install the protective sheaf there. A process which takes about one hour.

If you have one of these newer Roadsters, you’ll want to contact your Tesla Motors and get this all sorted out.

Toyota president Akio Toyoda recently let it slip that Toyota is currently creating an electric car that uses a Tesla battery pack. The interesting tidbit came out while he was answering inquiries regarding the Tesla and Toyota relationship.

While Toyota currently has a joint venture with Panasonic who is building their larger car batteries, Toyoda indicated that they are definitely interested in seeing what they can do with the Tesla 18650-format cells that are generally the type of battery found in laptops. By way of example, the Tesla Roadster battery pack uses 6,831 of these cells to power the electric sports car.

The likelihood of seeing Toyota cars using Tesla battery packs will all depend on how well they perform in these prototype tests which will look at the their ability to function past large scale accumulated mileage and extreme weather conditions.

As you may have noticed, the Tesla Roadster made an appearance in the first Iron Man movie. The association has continued, deepened slightly even. In Iron Man 2 Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk makes a cameo appearance as himself.

This isn’t the first time Musk has been involved in a Hollywood film as he was a producer on Thank You for Smoking in 2005 and as well as new film coming out this year called Dumbstruck.

But what is most interesting of all is the impact Musk had on the Iron Man script, simply by being who he is. When Iron Man Director Jon Favreau confided in lead actor Robert Downey Jr. that he had no idea how to make the main character, genius billionaire Tony Stark, real. Downey told him, “We need to sit down with Elon Musk.”

The electric car that put Tesla on the map and gave the electric car movement a shot in the arm when it needed it, is getting the plug pulled on it barely after it was plugged-in, so to speak.

As Tesla Motors goes public for the first time, a disturbing bit of info has come out in its Initial Public Offering (IPO). The Tesla Roadster will cease to be produced in 2011 for the simple reason that Tesla won’t have anywhere to build the high-end electric sports car.

“We do not plan to sell our current generation Tesla Roadster after 2011 due to planned tooling changes at a supplier for the Tesla Roadster,” the company write in its IPO.

Since the Tesla Roadster is built by Lotus, they are probably talking about the factory in Hethel, England getting changes that will prevent production there.

The Tesla Roadster is slated to see production again, but it won’t be until 2013 at the earliest. And since we all know how these things go, that’s probably a very generous estimate.

The Tesla Model S will be launched in 2012, but that still leaves two years without any cars going out and it’s based on the assumption that everything goes as planned and production deadlines are met perfectly.

Let’s put it this way, if I were in the market for a $100,000 electric car with a 244 mile range and can go from 0-60 mph in under 4 seconds , I’d probably pick one up sooner than later.

It was over half a year ago that Tesla announced an amped up version of the Tesla Roadster would be made available in the Tesla Roadster Sport.

Since then we hadn’t heard much of the Sport and we had seen even less. In fact, the new images that have just been released, mark the first official pictures of the high-powered electric vehicle to be made available to the drooling public.

The Tesla Roadster Sport (pictured above finally), boasts a hand-wound stator that helps eliminate resistance while increasing peak torque, as well as a set of ultra high performance Yokohama tires. The Sport also boasts a few other little Lotus-inspired components which can be tailored to the purchasers choice.

The Tesla Roadster Sport costs a little more than its standard counterpart with a base price of $128,500.

If you’ve been dreaming of a Tesla Roadster sitting in your driveway, or better yet, ripping through the countryside like a silent, emission free torpedo, but don’t quite have enough to pay cash for the over $100,000 electric sports car, you might be making a trip to the Bank of America.

Bank of America has worked out an agreement with Tesla Motors to offer financing for the Roadster.

While the terms of the Roadster financing hasn’t been stated, we can assume it still won’t be cheap since for the same price you could probably buy four homes in Detroit and a couple condos in Las Vegas.

Thinking of buying a green home in France? Well now might be a good time to do it since Welcome in France is offering a free Tesla Roadster for each of its new ecological luxury-home developments.

The eco-friendly housing is located on the outskirts of Paris, makes use of solar panels, geothermal energy, private water treatment facilities and presumably a place to park a brand new Tesla Roadster.

The developments have not been completed yet and the weak economy has reduced the number of perspective buyers. Presumably, Welcome in France is looking for all the hype behind the Tesla Roadster to help garner their developments more attention and potential buyers.

While there hasn’t been any word on the price of the developments yet, they are presumably fairly pricey considering that a Roadster is going to go for $109,000 USD.