Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Lux Research’s new report—“ The Tesla-Panasonic Battery Gigafactory: Analysis of Li-ion Cost Trends, EV Price Reduction, and Capacity Utilization ”—projects sales of some 240,000 Tesla cars in 2020, leading to razor-thin margins to Panasonic and 57% overcapacity. million cars per year mark by the year 2025.

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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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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

During the first quarter of 2014, Tesla Motors produced a record 7,535 Model S vehicles for global delivery; the company also delivered 6,457 cars worldwide—slightly exceeding guidance—while also filling the pipeline of deliveries into Europe and Asia. Q2 & 2014 Outlook.

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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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Tesla Motors and its supporters have rallied numerous times against attacks on the electric-car maker''s company-owned stores, but a Michigan bill banning its online direct-sales model has made it into law--almost.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

One of the defining features of buying a Tesla Model S electric car is the online ordering, at a fixed price. Thus far, the only way to get a Model S at a discount from Tesla Motors has been to buy a service loaner/showroom model direct from the company.

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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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MARCH 28, 2014

In an effort to reduce further the already low risk of a Model S battery fire resulting from impact with road debris, Tesla Motors is outfitting new Model S cars (as of 6 March) with an underbody triple shield system consisting first of an aluminum bar; then a titanium shield; and finally a shallow angle solid aluminum extrusion.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Every month, and often more frequently, a new story appears about the state-by-state battle between Tesla Motors and auto-dealer lobbyists. In some states, Tesla is permitted to sell its electric cars online, deliver them to customers, and open as many Tesla Store showrooms as it wants.

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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. What would you do?

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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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2012

The NVIDIA Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM) is debuting as part of the Tesla Motors Model S electric luxury sedan. Energy-efficient NVIDIA Tegra module powers infotainment, navigation and digital instrument cluster system in Tesla Motors Model S electric sedan. inch all-digital instrument cluster. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Tesla Motors confirmed today that it expected to start production of its crucial Model 3 electric car in July, and claims that it will boost production to 5,000 cars a week by the end of this year. The news was contained in Tesla's latest letter to its shareholders, and it started with the third sentence.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

While the auto industry will start to report December and year-end sales totals today, Tesla Motors issued its year-end delivery and production results yesterday. The Silicon Valley car maker, now completing its ninth year of production, delivered 22,230 electric cars during the fourth quarter of 2016.

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MAY 10, 2012

In its letter to shareholders reporting Q1 2012 results, Tesla Motors Chairman, Product Architect and CEO Elon Musk and Deepak Ahuja, Chief Financial Officer, said that the company had recently signed an agreement with Daimler to create an entire electric powertrain for a new Mercedes-Benz. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Before you start thinking I’m writing this piece to make Tesla short sellers happy, let me give you some background to the story. We are a group of three Tesla lovers — in fact, EV aficionados in general. In 2017, we bought a second-hand Tesla Model […]. I mean, literally fell down, damaging the steering gear.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has also expressed an interest in recent years, and now tells Nikkei that the firm could introduce self-driving technology in the next three years. Musk says.'

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MAY 22, 2012

Tesla Motors announced that the Tesla Factory will begin customer deliveries of the Model S on 22 June. In addition, the company announced several personalization updates to Model S: Adjustable regen. Owners will be able to adjust brake regen to suit their driving styles. Adjustable steering. Adjustable suspension.

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MAY 22, 2013

billion fundraising , Tesla Motors has paid off the entire loan awarded to the company by the US Department of Energy in 2010. Following this payment, Tesla will be the only American car company to have fully repaid the government. Flush with its recent $1.02

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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 3, 2016

China is not just the world's largest overall new-car market, it's also now the largest market for plug-in electric cars. With its ambitious plan to build 500,000 electric cars per year beginning in 2018, it would seem to make sense that Tesla Motors would make China a priority.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2014

AT&T and Tesla Motors have entered into a new multi-year exclusive agreement to enable current and future Tesla vehicles in North America with high speed wireless connectivity. AT&T has also entered agreements to provide its 4G LTE connectivity to Chevrolet ( earlier post ) and Audi ( earlier post ) vehicles. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 19, 2012

The zero emissions two-seater is powered by a lithium-ion battery developed by Tesla Motors Inc. Hertz added the smart fortwo electric drive to its EV fleet in the US in 2010, with the zero-emission car now available in San Francisco, New York and Washington, DC.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 8, 2022

“The drive unit was put on a dyno and got to 600 BHP, then it overheated the dyno!” ” Well, then it’s probably powerful enough. Kit Lacey of eDub Services in the UK is proud of his work converting an iconic 1977 Porsche 911. Some will call it sacrilege, but hey, the customer sold the original […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Mercedes-Benz will present a battery-powered electric concept variant of the B-Class at the Paris Motor Show, reportedly developed in partnership with Tesla Motors. Earlier post.) Market launch is planned for 2014.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 14, 2014

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 Valley electric-car maker will offer a replacement battery for the 2008-2012 Tesla Roadsters that were its first production cars.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Sometimes you almost have to feel sorry for car dealers--or, more specifically, their ineptness at the public-relations end of their fight against electric-car maker Tesla Motors and its direct Internet sales to car buyers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors announced that his company will make “ a significant investment ” in Germany, focused on expanding the Supercharger network, expanding the number of service centers, and high-speed tuning for the Model S for improved performance on the Autobahn. lagging sales of other EVs in the country.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2014

As expected, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder yesterday signed a bill that bans Tesla Motors from selling its electric cars directly to buyers online in the state.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Lexus operates with the firm belief that hybrids are better than battery-electric cars, but there''s at least one thing about electric-car maker Tesla Motors it wants to emulate. Even as Toyota''s luxury division has lashed out at electric cars in recent ads, its executives are intrigued by Tesla''s direct-sales model.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

BMW and Tesla Motors are both committed to offering mass-market luxury electric cars, which would seem to make them natural rivals. RELATED: Tesla And BMW: Natural Competitors In Electric Cars, One Day In an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel published on Sunday (via.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

No budget car, but a real @Opel (quality, innovation, German engineering)! By the way: @Opel will not move into the low-budget segment. We leave this place to others! 1/2 — Karl-Thomas Neumann (@KT_Neumann) July 23, 2014. We're planning a new entry level model! 2/2 / KTN — Karl-Thomas Neumann (@KT_Neumann) July 23, 2014.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2014

Renovo says that its mid-mounted motors, with a single gear direct drive, feature optimized energy mappings for a wide range of driving conditions. As points of comparison: Tesla Motors’ Roadster Sport model ($128,500 when it was introduced in 2009) offered a top speed of 125 mph with a 0-60 time of 3.7 Price is $529,000.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Daimler AG has restructured its cooperation with Tesla Motors. Daimler has terminated the share-price hedge it initiated in 2013 and has sold its stake in Tesla of approximately 4%. Development work for the Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive ([link] is completed, and the partnership with Tesla remains in place, Daimler said.

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