Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
The auto industry is famously complicated. Those who dare to build cars have to deal with global supply chains, government regulations, and the ever-shifting vagaries of fashion. At the end of the assembly line, however, lies one simple fact: to make money, you must deliver vehicles to customers. A few weeks ago, Tesla [TSLA] stock dropped through the floor because of doubts about deliveries. More recently, it soared back to healthy levels when the company announced a record 95,200 global deliveries for the second quarter. ... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Saurabh
An industry body in India representing solar power developers made a significant proposal regarding the tariff thresholds for national-level solar power auctions. National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) proposed that all national-level solar power auctions [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
IHS Markit predicts the number of electric car models available in Europe will triple over the next 18 months. European leaders are pushing hard for new battery factories to meet the demand, but leaders in the UK and the US seem not to have gotten the memo. ... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Saurabh
India is making swift progress to ensure infrastructure for electric vehicles is in place to cater to the impending demand from the public sector. The Department of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises of the Government of [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
As early as next year, the City of London aims to install 300–400 fast charge points, and by 2025 the number of rapid chargers is aimed to increase to between 2,300 to 4,100. Another mix of slow to fast EV charging points are aimed to grow from 3,400–4,700 in 2020 to 33,700–47,500 by the year ... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Lucid is one company that would be happy to eat the lunch of the major manufacturers who can't be bothered to make electric cars. This week, it finally broke ground on its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. David Salguero of Lucid Motors says the plant is on track to begin production of the Lucid Air electric car by late 2020, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
A survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Consumer Reports finds strong interest from Americans all across the country in electric cars. The EV revolution took another step forward this week as Lucid Motors broke ground on its factory in Arizona. ... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Barry A.F.
One day I was at the grocery store and happened to run into our city’s roads coordinator while waiting to check out. I mentioned that all the traffic lights on the main street are mismatched and [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
The blast of air was almost imperceptible as the grey streak sped past. A remnant of its silhouette was all that remained as bystanders attempted to reconstruct a complete image of the car, but their efforts [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Let’s face it. Flying is a dreadful idea if the objective is to lower total global carbon emissions. While the amount of CO2 emitted per passenger per mile may be modest, with more than 37 million [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Electric vehicles offer large cost savings over traditional gasoline-burning vehicles. That’s simply because electric vehicles use electricity as fuel instead of gasoline. Electricity is much cheaper than gasoline, making it much cheaper to recharge a car than to refill a car... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
BYD and Toyota announced this morning that the two industry powerhouses have entered into an agreement that will see them partnering on the development of electric vehicle batteries... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Editor's note: Aside from the points made in the article below, something that I think non-Tesla drivers can't appreciate (until they experience it in a Tesla) is Tesla's navigation system for road trips. The brilliant navigation system plans out your trip and tells you where to charge and for how long. I drove a Model S from Poland to Paris and back, and my conclusion after (or during) the trip was that this navigation system actually made the journey simpler and less stressful than it would have been in a gasoline or diesel vehicle... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Researchers in Japan are finding new ways to make electricity from heat at lower temperatures while other researchers in Belgium may be close to a solid state battery breakthrough. ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Tina Casey
Add the building electrification movement to the mounting pile of difficulties piled onto the plate of stakeholders in the US natural gas industry... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Guest Contributor
Video footage from Tesla's Sentry Mode is not always pertaining to law-breaking incidents like theft or vandalism. Some footage can actually be fun and provide a sense of pride for Tesla owners. For instance, check out the following scene captured from one of Tesla's side-repeater dashcams that showcases a couple of strangers admiring a Model ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Tesla Raises The Bar For EV Charging With New 24-Stall V3 Supercharging Station... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
We may have commentary and extra analysis on this Tesla safety report in the coming days. Or not. For now, below is the full Tesla safety report for Q2 2019. For previous news on this topic, see our Tesla safety and EV safety archives... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
My Polish friends (and I) have long been waiting for a Tesla service center in Poland. Thankfully, we now have one. Apparently as a birthday gift for my eldest daughter (who does love Tesla), the company announced via email the other day that a service center opened up in Warsaw... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
Why is the Tesla Model S Motor Trend's Ultimate Car of the Year? Elon Musk explains. ... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by The Beam
What has the international legal and political community been doing about tackling unsustainable consumption patterns... Read More →
Published on July 18th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
It seems to be a monthly occurrence now — Tesla changes priced, people freak out, some media outlets write about it, and then everyone assumes nothing will change for years (or something like that)... Read More →
Published on July 17th, 2019 | by Johnna Crider
Twitter user "Vincent" is well known for sharing knowledge about the going-ons of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory -- information that he gets from Chinese media and social media connections in China. Earlier today, he posted a thread of tweets detailing a meeting between Tesla's Global Vice President, Tao Lin, and a journalist with the Chinese media... Read More →
Published on July 17th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Tesla just rolled out a series of updates to the Model 3 configurator that lowered prices across the board in many countries. The new change was accompanied by a flip flop on the base color of all of Tesla's vehicles — from black to "pearl white." It is now an extra $750 to add black but no extra charge to choose white. Grey ("midnight silver metallic") and blue ("deep blue metallic") cost $1000 and red costs $... Read More →
