Paul Fosse A Software engineer for over 30 years, first developing EDI software, then developing data warehouse systems. Along the way, I've also had the chance to help start a software consulting firm and do portfolio management. In 2010, I took an interest in electric cars because gas was getting expensive. In 2015, I started reading CleanTechnica and took an interest in solar, mainly because it was a threat to my oil and gas investments. Follow me on Twitter @atj721 Tesla investor. Tesla referral code: https://ts.la/paul92237
November 9th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In the 1950s and early 1960s, domestic carmakers had little foreign competition (since German and Japanese manufacturing plants had been mostly destroyed in WWII). They quit innovating the mechanicals of the car and focused on style
November 1st, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'm going to describe how the Tesla community is focusing on the latest beta software yet totally missing the biggest threat to Tesla's goal of enabling a fleet of robotaxis
October 20th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this new miniseries, CleanTechnica Director Zachary Shahan and data engineer, investor, and Tesla fan Paul Fosse (that's me) discuss cleantech news of the week and offer additional insights and analysis
October 20th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'm going to give you a lot of things to consider before buying solar
October 4th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'm going to present a wide variety of ideas to save you money while buying an amazing electric car. This isn't an apple-to-apple comparison with another model. I've done a bunch of those
September 28th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
When I saw Tesla's Battery Day, I was impressed with both the breadth and the depth of the plan they presented. It covered all the parts of the battery, but also how the battery is placed in the car. The one question it raised was: "Did they put their considerable engineering talent into solving the right problem?"
September 21st, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I go over the speculation on Tesla's possibly overhyped Battery Day and tell you what to look for. If, after reading this, you want more battery news and analysis, I recommend our recent article on LPF batteries that Elon Musk commented on, this article on a new Tesla patent on a metal-air battery, and this article on lithium-ion capacity
September 13th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'll talk about what Texas is doing with utility-scale solar and how the motivation is different than many other states
September 1st, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
Tesla has entered an agreement with a series of banks to sell shares over time to raise up to $5 billion. This will result in only 1% dilution to existing shareholders if they are sold at today's prices. What does this imply
September 1st, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'll show my 35 year plan (which I started in 2010) to save a lot on energy costs and reduce my carbon footprint
August 8th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'm going to discuss an idea I came up for Tesla to dramatically increase demand for their cars after I watched a certain YouTube video and did some more research. Let's start with the video
August 2nd, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
This article is inspired by what I have read recently about Volkswagen. We have been hearing a lot from the company, and not all of it is good
July 26th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
After Elon Musk mentioned that Tesla was working on a couple more vehicles, a compact car and "high capacity" vehicle, my mind started to race about how this van-like vehicle could use all of the technologies that Elon has mentioned in various interviews.
July 23rd, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
Looking at the Q2 shareholder letter, I notice something that is underappreciated. Elon did say on the conference call that they could build better factories faster and for less money than before
July 23rd, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
Tesla has always been cautious about leasing its vehicles. This is in stark contrast to other luxury auto companies (like BMW or Jaguar) that use low lease rates to get folks to "stretch" up to their products with a deceptively low monthly cost
July 20th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
Tesla's innovations in solar are not recognized by either Wall Street or even most Tesla followers as a success. The story peddled by many who don't want Tesla to succeed (the short sellers and those about to be disrupted, but I repeat myself) is that Tesla only bought SolarCity to bail out Elon Musk's cousin's Peter and Lyndon Rive, who had cofounded the company
July 19th, 2020 | by Paul Fosse
Today we noticed that Tesla pulled another demand lever on its best selling vehicle. (Well, it's expected to be Tesla's top selling vehicle soon in the US, but that is unconfirmed.)
