August 19th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
Longtime Tesla insider David Havasi and I recently sat down together (virtually) to watch the virtual unveiling of the Cadillac Lyriq together and then talk about it afterward
July 4th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
We're here with another episode of Tesla Inside Out, a series on our CleanTech Talk podcast channel. This one is a special "Energy Independence Weekend" episode focused on a mix of the big EV news this year (more potent this week than ever) and David Havasi's history in the industry (in Tesla from 2012–2019 and outside of it since then)
June 7th, 2020 | by Winter Wilson
In this episode of our Tesla Inside Out podcast interview series, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan sits down once again with co-host David Havasi, former Tesla Senior Delivery/Product/Marketing Lead, to discuss fun and interesting stories from David’s 7 years at Tesla
March 31st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
With social distancing being the name of the game these days, longtime Tesla insider David Havasi and I are no longer able to jump into a Tesla and chat about Tesla together for an hour. Perhaps that's for the best, as it gives us the opportunity to steer the "Tesla Inside Out" series into a potentially better direction
March 22nd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
For the latest edition of Tesla Inside Out (which was recorded before the COVID-19 crisis started to really unfold in the US), David Havasi and I focused on the wonders of Tesla performance and Tesla test drives
February 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
As you may have seen by now, 7 year Tesla insider David Havasi and I have been getting together in recent months to talk about the deep history of Tesla from an insider (David) and outsider (me) perspective in a podcast and video chat series called Tesla Inside Out. The thing that triggered this chat was recent data from BloombergNEF showing that battery energy density has nearly tripled in the past decade
February 2nd, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
In this episode of Tesla Inside Out*, David Havasi tells us about some of the challenges (and fun) of delivering early Tesla Model S sedans to customers around the time of Hurricane Sandy in New York City (back in 2012)
December 5th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Resuming our "Tesla Inside Out" series, this video picks up where David Havasi and I left off last time, chuckling about a wild DIY Tesla delivery story. David and a team of early 2012 employees built a trailer to deliver early Model S's without having any real clue what they were doing. Luckily, they got the job done. He also mentioned a funny story about a Miami delivery truck in highlighting their overall novice delivery truck awareness back in
November 9th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Continuing our discussion of Tesla and David Havasi's long history at Tesla, we took up where we left off, talking about early Model S days at Tesla. At the time that, Tesla had a gigantic factory in Fremont with almost nothing in it other than big, wild dreams and post-apocalyptic images of Blade Runner and The Highlander flashing through their heads as they looked across the expansive space
November 9th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently met a gentleman named David Havasi while charging our Tesla Model 3 at a ChargePoint station at a Whole Foods I frequently visit. He recognized me from CleanTechnica and I quickly learned he worked at Tesla for 7 years, until just recently. We got talking, talking, talking, and talking. I wasn't sure if he'd be camera shy to repeat some of what he told me (or more) on camera, but it turned out he very much wasn't shy — he had actually worked on Broadway before working at Tesla!
September 30th, 2019 | by Zachary Shahan
Friend & longtime Tesla employee* David Havasi and I play with Smart Summon in a difficult situation. More dramatically, I've got a collection of fun and dramatic Smart Summon videos from Twitter to show you
January 13th, 2021 | by Guest Contributor
Even casual observers are familiar with Tesla’s Master Plan, a three-part strategy to bring a mid-priced EV to the mass market
December 31st, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
"I wasn't in a building. It was more like a UFO landing. I'd just kinda be somewhere, and people would walk by and experience it. So it was more like it kind of jarred their senses, where they were seeing this thing they had never seen before and never heard of before
December 19th, 2020 | by Guest Contributor
This article is an expanded version of material that appears in Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, Edition 4.1. This history of Tesla, written by Charged Senior Editor Charles Morris and originally published in 2014, has now been completely revised and expanded, with new chapters on Model Y, Cybertruck, the Chinese Gigafactory and the events of
October 25th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." That's a maxim that I imagine could get you fired from Tesla. Tesla is obsessively focused on "fixing" what is working fine but not working as well as it could be. Tesla is obsessively trying to take products and systems apart, whittle them down to their core
October 15th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan
A reader suggested a few weeks ago that we start a Tesla Throwback Thursday series to reflect on how Tesla has changed over time and how the media narrative around Tesla has changed
October 15th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider
Plug In America recently asked the question, "Which electric vehicles have the longest range?" It then dove in to answer that question. I'm going diving with them
