Electric cars equal $1 a gallon gas for life + $1,200 cash a year
Car buyers are notoriously fond of focusing only on the purchase price of new vehicles, without much thinking about the total cost of ownership. For electric cars that may cost twice or more what a...
View ArticleWhat's holding back the electric car market in the U.S.
Three and a half years after modern electric cars entered the mass market, there are now no fewer than 17 models on sale in the U.S. But that impressive number shouldn’t disguise a fundamental truth...
View ArticleSilicon Valley rich dudes rejoice: Tesla Roadsters getting replacement,...
Retrofitting new powertrains to used cars isn’t something that automakers have done, historically–but electric cars may change that rule. Now, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has suggested that the Silicon...
View ArticleHow a brothel owner helped Elon Musk put Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada
As expected, Tesla Motors announced earlier this week that it would build its first battery gigafactory outside Reno, Nevada. The electric-car maker released platitudinous statements from CEO Elon...
View ArticleTesla will need $6B more by 2025, Goldman Sachs says
Carmaking is very, very, very expensive. A conventional vehicle platform or architecture generally costs about $1 billion to design, engineer, test, certify, and put into production. And the various...
View ArticleTesla 'D' coming October 9. Here's what it might be
Do you ever get the sense that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has fun in his job? Last night, at 6:31 pm Pacific time, he tweeted a photo with the caption, “About time to unveil the D and something else”....
View ArticleResearchers have a plan to make batteries hold 10x more power
The division is pretty clear: nickel-metal-hydride batteries are for use only in hybrid cars–at least those from Toyota, which has used more of the batteries than any other maker by far. Lithium-ion...
View ArticleTesla Model 3 is behind schedule & unlikely to ship in 2017
Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence–including a few things that the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to...
View ArticleElon Musk said Powerwall battery demand is ‘off the hook’— here’s what that...
The quarterly earnings calls held by Tesla Motors are always a chance to hear CEO Elon Musk describe the Silicon Valley carmaker’s operations and outlooks. But last week’s call was a first: The bulk of...
View ArticleDrone flyover video shows that Tesla Gigafactory is really freaking huge
The very word “gigafactory” makes Tesla Motors’ lithium-ion cell fabrication and battery assembly plant sound quite large. But how huge it actually is can be hard to comprehend. Context is provided by...
View ArticleDrone flyover video shows that Tesla Gigafactory is really freaking huge
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! The very word “gigafactory” makes Tesla Motors’ lithium-ion cell fabrication and...
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