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Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2010
The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp. indicated that it plans to develop an electric-car prototype jointly with Tesla Motors Inc. for testing as early as this year.
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Green Car Reports
MAY 20, 2014
Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years. It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota.
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Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2014
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced in a blog post that the company is opening up access to its patents; Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use the company’s technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport.
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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 8, 2014
While Tesla Motors now sells electric cars in North America, parts of Europe, and--perhaps most importantly--China, it continues to expand its sales footprint. The most recent addition is Japan, a notoriously closed market where only one of the three largest makers has any interest at all in electric cars.
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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
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
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
energy policy took a dramatic turn last month when Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk squared off against the CEO top privately-owned U.S. In an interview for the CNBC show "Squawk Box," Robert Murray called Tesla and its electric cars a "fraud." The debate over U.S. coal producer Murray Energy.
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Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 15, 2014
Today we''ve got stories on how gas prices could affect electric-car sales, how hybrids could be better for cutting carbon emissions than hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, and how Tesla Motors is influencing Lexus. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
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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
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 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.
167 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
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.
167 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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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 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
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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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
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
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
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
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
Today, we have a video road test of the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, a new report claims Toyota will launch a battery-electric car, and Tesla Motors will begin charging for use of its Supercharger DC fast-charging stations. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
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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.
147 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?
160 Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 24, 2014
Today we take a quick drive of the 2015 Hyundai Sonata Eco mid-size sedan, report on Toyota''s sale of Tesla Motors stock, and see when cross-country electric-car road trips will become feasible for the majority of drivers. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
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Green Car Congress
APRIL 1, 2013
Tesla Motors reported Q1 vehicle deliveries of more than 4,750 Model S units—exceeding the 4,500-unit Q1 target provided in the mid-February shareholder letter. As a result, Tesla is amending its Q1 guidance to full profitability, both GAAP and non-GAAP. I am incredibly proud of the Tesla team for their outstanding work.
338 Green Car Reports
JUNE 2, 2014
Tesla Motors only reveals its production figures every quarter, but it has now likely built about 50,000 of its all-electric Model S luxury sport sedan. The company also doesn''t group its changes and updates into model years, but makes running changes in the cars whenever the updates are tested, validated, and ready to roll.
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Green Car Reports
JUNE 9, 2014
Tesla Motors has some busy years ahead of it. To that long list, Tesla has added U.K. sales--as the first cars made their way into customers'' hands at a launch event over.' There''s the continued roll-out of the Model S in global markets, such as China and Europe. There are two new models on the horizon.
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Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
Tesla Motors sales in China are "robust," and the company may have as many as 4,000 reservations for its Model S--which it only started selling in China five months ago.
167 Green Car Reports
MARCH 11, 2014
Another battle in Tesla Motors'' nationwide war with car dealers seems imminent. The latest state to oppose Tesla''s direct-sales model is New Jersey, which the company says is on the verge of passing rules that would push its direct-sales model out of the Garden State.
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Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 18, 2013
Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] is gearing up for increased production over the next few years with the aid of healthy tax breaks from its home state of California. million on the purchase of $415 million of new manufacturing equipment, says SFGate--and would allow Tesla to expand annual production by 35,000.'
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Green Car Reports
MAY 16, 2014
According to Bloomberg, Gundlach has suggested the Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO get out of the car-making.' Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach is the latest to offer his own take on the business to Musk though--and it isn''t what you might be expecting.
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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
MARCH 19, 2014
As captured by Autoblog Green writer Domenick Yoney last Friday, the @NissanLeaf Twitter account posted the following message: It''s okay #NewJersey, you can still #GoElectric with the #NissanLEAF #EV Sloppy punctuation aside, the tweet was a clear dig at the travails of Tesla Motors, which had just.'
160 Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 3, 2013
Once more into the fray: Another state''s car dealers are pushing for legislation to ban Tesla Motors from selling its electric cars directly to buyers. And legislators have unexpectedly moved up a hearing on the new law to today, according to a letter from Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA].
167 Green Car Reports
JUNE 4, 2014
The guerilla warfare between auto dealers and Tesla Motors continues, with the latest skirmish happening tomorrow in New Jersey. Perhaps war analogies are overstating the case, but certainly Tesla has had to fight in numerous states for the right to sell its cars directly to buyers through the Internet.
158 Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Tesla said late yesterday that it delivered roughly 24,500 electric cars during the third quarter, including 15,800 Model S sedans and 8,700 Model X utility vehicles. That total slightly exceeds estimates by at least half of the financial analysts who had projected deliveries from the Silicon Valley maker before their release.
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Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 1, 2013
Well, here''s a first: The best-selling car in Norway is the Tesla Model S. Not the best-selling electric car. Not the best-selling car with a plug. For the month of September, the Tesla Model S was the best-selling car, period.
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Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
The battle between Tesla Motors, which sells its electric cars directly to customers over the Internet, and the nation''s car dealers--which want to make that practice illegal--has raged for four years. The argument against Tesla''s direct-sales model.'
161 Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
The 210,000 plug-in electric vehicles sold around the world last year used a lot of lithium-ion batteries. But if startup automaker Tesla Motors has its way, it will soon need as many lithium-ion cells (of the 18650 format it uses) as are now built worldwide.
167 Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 7, 2014
Lots of electric-car news today. Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn explains that the Japanese carmaker isn''t wedded to its own electric-car batteries, Panasonic announces its first round of investment in the Tesla Motors "gigafactory," and we analyze BMW i3 incentives.
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Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
State and national auto-dealer groups have been battling Tesla Motors for four years now. The dealers want to stop Tesla from selling its electric cars directly to buyers, and are working to change state laws so Tesla will have to conduct all sales through independently-owned third parties--which is to say, car dealers.
166 Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 25, 2014
Car dealers often come in for criticism, especially among electric-car advocates and Tesla Motors supporters who have watched state dealership lobbying groups make Tesla''s direct-sales model illegal in a number of states.
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