Toyota recently announced it is advancing its existing EV roadmap by 5 years. Instead of selling 1 million fully electric vehicles (BEVs), cumulatively, by 2030, the target year is now 2025. Tesla, meanwhile, will reach a 1 million BEVs sometime in early to mid 2020, at least 5 years ahead of Toyota. Even Volkswagen expects to reach that goal in late 2021. Toyota is essentially admitting defeat at this point.
You may want to write this off as a clickbait fluff piece. Well, it may clickbait (depending on the definition you’re using) but it is certainly not a fluffy Furby, flufferbot, or feckless sideshow. In fact, I think the points illustrated below are often critical to know and keep in mind when reading and writing about Tesla.
The world of experts, fake experts, and armchair business magnates has a long history of telling Elon Musk and Tesla what they can’t do.
On a Tesla Motors Club thread, some members there recently shared a few old claims of perennial Tesla bears. It was a brilliant little move of reverse trolling, and it prompted me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for ages — dig up some old claims about Tesla from prominent bears and see how they held up to the light of today.
There are a lot of highly talented people working at SpaceX. When some of them heard about the children trapped underground in Thailand, some of them immediately started brainstorming ways to help rescue them. Over the weekend, SpaceX engineers began testing a “kid sized submarine” that could be used to extract one child at a time.
CleanTech Talk starts off this week with a clip from professional wrestler Daniel “The Progressive Liberal” Richards. (The clip played on the show starts at the 0:27 mark from this YouTube video.)
The Chief Designer of the cutting-edge (at the turn of the century) Toyota Prius, Satoshi Ogiso, recently commented in an interview that some all-electric vehicles are now cheaper to manufacture than conventional hybrids like the Prius. The comment was a somewhat in-depth one, where Ogiso also speculated that all-electrics vehicles … [continued]
I don’t like to single out individuals who I think are not living up to moral ideals, but in my role as a cleantech media professional, I recently called out Bertel Schmitt for his consistently deceptive (and slickly so) articles about Tesla Motors. The aim was not to shame Mr. B.S. — I … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. A journalist and former Volkswagen PR guy by the name of Bertel Schmitt somewhat infamously declared last year that he would eat his hat if Tesla managed to release an Autopilot feature allowing for autonomous lane changing within one year (in a Model S 70D, … [continued]
The Nissan LEAF has a weird gas-powered cousin in Japan, and now there’s a new version. The third-generation Note, with Nissan’s sort-of-electric e-POWER system recently dropped in the Japanese market.
