Green Car Reports

JUNE 16, 2014

With modern, mass-market electric cars on sale for three and a half years now, you might think that the path for growth has been pretty much laid out by now. But the great disruptor, Silicon Valley electric-car startup Tesla Motors, may be changing the playbook once again. According to a report in the U.K.''s

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 22, 2014

The audacious plan by electric-car maker Tesla Motors to install its own network of free, high-speed charging stations for owners of Tesla cars is starting to pay off.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Historically, auto dealerships have made as much or more money selling used cars as new ones. Since electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn''t have dealerships, but sells cars online directly to buyers, that has left the question of buying used Teslas to owners who may want to sell.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 25, 2014

Norway is known for its love of electric cars, but there''s one Norwegian who loves them more than most. A recent Tesla Motors blog post tells the story of a "superowner" in the Scandinavian who not only has a Model S, but also six Roadster sports cars--apparently more Tesla electric cars than any other person on the planet.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2014

Tesla Motors released its first-quarter earnings this afternoon, logging revenue of $713 million on deliveries of 6,457 Model S electric cars--essentially the number it had said it would sell in the quarter.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 1, 2015

Electric-car startup Tesla Motors attracts huge interest, lots of controversy, and truly passionate customers and followers. DON'T MISS: Tesla Not. For a company that's been around only a little more than 10 years, it's got a lot of history.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Lots of electric-car news today. Elon Musk hints at a possible second collaboration between Tesla Motors and Toyota, California now has more than 100,000 plug-in cars on its roads, and the Saleen Foursixteen shows exactly what it can do in a new video. All this and more on Green Car Reports. There are.'

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

Faraday Future unveiled its FF 91 electric car on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The battery-powered 1,050-horsepower vehicle is intended to rival (or perhaps best) anything Tesla Motors may have up its sleeve.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2014

In early 2009, German luxury car maker Daimler effectively saved Silicon Valley electric-car maker Tesla Motors by purchasing 9.1 Now, more than five years later--following a remarkable rise in Tesla''s stock price--Daimler has largely cashed out its remaining 4-percent holding, adding a healthy.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Georgia may kill its $5,000 electric-car tax credit, Ohio car dealers renew their legislative fight against Tesla Motors, and 2010 through 2014 Toyota Prius hybrids are being recalled. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 7, 2014

Many among the Detroit auto media were skeptical of Tesla Motors for years, correctly noting just how hard it is to start a car company and build a genuinely appealing product--electric car or not.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Suppose auto dealers in a neighboring state pressured their DoT to make Tesla Motors stop giving test drives of its Model S electric car--the same kind it now offers in more than a dozen other states. If you were you a group of Tesla owners in Minnesota, you might just take matters into your own hands.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 22, 2016

Panasonic is currently Tesla's sole supplier of battery cells for its electric cars, and a partner in the carmaker's massive lithium-ion cell "gigafactory" in Nevada.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2014

With the 2014 BMW i3 battery-electric car now being delivered to its first buyers, and the range-extended i3 REx version to follow within several weeks, BMW is at last in the business of selling electric cars in volume.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 29, 2014

This was the year when it became obvious that upstart electric-car maker Tesla Motors has startled and worried all of the German luxury-car companies.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 2, 2014

If you watched 60 Minutes on Sunday night--perhaps wondering whether the show would target the Tesla Model S electric car--you may have been relieved. The segment, "Fast Cars and Rocket Ships," was nothing less than a laudatory paean to the vision and accomplishments of Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 8, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors recorded 6,457 Model S electric-car deliveries in the first quarter of 2014, new research says diesel-car emissions still pose a significant health hazard, and Texas plans $2,500 electric-car purchase rebates. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 23, 2013

Most advocates and industry analysts expect lithium-ion batteries to dominate electric-car energy storage for the rest of this decade. But is Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] planning to add a new type of battery to increase the range of its electric cars?

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Green Car Reports

JULY 15, 2014

government, the Tesla Motors network of Supercharger DC fast-charging stations for electric cars was paid for using "money that has come.' In this case, a Hyundai executive suggested that while his company had received no money for its hydrogen vehicles from the U.S.

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Electric Cars Report

MAY 26, 2023

Ford Motor Company said on Thursday it reached an agreement with Tesla Motors that will provide Ford electric vehicle customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada, doubling the number of fast-chargers available to Ford EV customers starting spring 2024.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 5, 2013

There are barely 10,000 Tesla Model S electric cars on the roads, and its Model X crossover won''t arrive for more than a year. We''ve known for a.'

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Green Car Reports

MAY 31, 2017

Looking back from the 2020s or 2030s, it's entirely likely that the unexpected arrival of Tesla Motors was a major force—along with legislation, perhaps the major force—in getting legacy automakers to produce electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2014

Tesla Motors recently announced plans for a battery "Gigafactory," which is to provide enough lithium-ion cells to allow it to build a projected 500,000 electric cars per year by 2020. That would require far more cells in its preferred format than last year''s entire global production, hence the need for a massive U.S.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Last week, we were struck by a single photo that captured electric cars across two decades. The image, showing a GM EV1 and a Tesla Model S on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute campus, was posted on Facebook by Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA].

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2016

All three German luxury car makers now have plans to launch battery-electric vehicles before 2020 to counter the unlikely success of California's Tesla Motors. Whether their electric cars are sedans, SUVs, or both, they will likely be sized and priced to compete with the Tesla Model S and Model X now in production.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: What we know (so far) about the 2016 Chevrolet Volt, Tucson makes a bid for the Tesla Motors battery "Gigafactory," and why standardized electric-car battery swapping won''t happen. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2013

The environmental impact of plug-in electric cars is a hot topic right now, and a fiercely debated one at that. A couple of weeks ago, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk pledged to dive into it himself. Musk tweeted, "Am seeing many poorly argued attacks on ''true'' CO2 impact of electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2014

Car production data may cause some eyes to glaze over, but the numbers are closely followed in the auto industry. Electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn''t report its exact sales, nor its precise production, so a cottage industry has sprung up to track its alleged production.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This past week–almost exactly 500 days after Tesla Motors announced the first six stations in its Supercharger network–a father-daughter team in a Tesla Model S electric car became the first to cross the country by Supercharger alone.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We''ve got photos of the Tesla Model S electric car''s new battery safety shield, we muse on General Motors'' electric-car plans, and we drive the 2015 Honda Fit hatchback. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: We run down plug-in electric car sales for April, the latest on Tesla''s Gigafactory site choice, and the 10 most-polluted cities in the U.S. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Tesla Motors will soon select a site for its lihtium-ion cell Gigafactory soon.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Today''s news is all about the companies that make green cars. Tesla Motors'' third quarter report includes an announced delay of the Model X electric crossover, Hyundai and Kia must pay penalties over gas-mileage testing errors, and we find out which automakers are truly serious about electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Which promise made by electric-car maker Tesla Motors took 18 months to come to fruition? This is our video look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, December 19, 2014. And what''s the 2016 Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle really like to drive?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2016

Tesla Motors was the first carmaker to branch out from selling electric cars to offering standalone battery packs for energy storage, but others have followed the company's lead. At the Electric Vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 1, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors says it will keep the price of its smaller electric sedan down, we tally plug-in electric car sales for June, and could new rules make European fuel-economy tests more realistic? All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 30, 2016

The established German luxury carmakers are now taking Tesla Motors quite seriously, and are preparing a crop of electric cars to compete directly with its Model S and Model X. In 2018, Audi will launch an all-electric SUV based on the e-tron quattro concept unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show last year.

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