October 27th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently published a summary look at the electric vehicle plans of the world's three largest automakers, and then automakers #4–7. Here's one more piece in this series, a look at the electric vehicle plans of automakers #8–
October 27th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
What's the Tesla Model 3's actual market share potential? What's the full size of the market the Model 3 is competing in
October 26th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
This article was inspired by a CleanTechnica commenter who dropped question #1 under a recent CleanTechnica article. For sure, the ~33 questions below should have been asked on the Tesla financials call last night — these are the really important ones. Alas, it was not a good day. Now that the commotion is over, perhaps Elon will find some time to answer some of them on Twitter
October 25th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The power of denial is an amazing thing. Yes, there is always plenty of debate possible about the value of a company — whether it should be higher or lower. But there isn't debate about something else — history
October 24th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla has just published its Q3 shareholder letter, which is an absolute blowout. It is far better than even our supposedly "optimistic" forecast. The bullet-point highlights are as follows
October 24th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
According to a government filing made today in Shanghai, Tesla intends to produce two models at its Chinese Gigafactory in the factory's first phase — Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model
October 22nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
There are many debates that are fun and interesting in a vacuum. Theoretical debates can go on forever on some subjects. But what matters when it comes to politics and policy is the existing reality, and where to go from there
October 21st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The top 20 CleanTechnica stories of the past week included all kinds of Tesla fun, but not only. Read on and click through in case you missed a hot Tesla story and to enjoy the non-Tesla cleantech fun
October 21st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla used to be a nice and considerate young company, easing its way into a ginormous automobile ocean in which it sold one and then two guppies — the Model S and Model X. Then along came Model
October 20th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Poor Model S and Model X. Their younger sister came along and completely stole their thunder*. For years, the Model S and Model X were the hottest items in the auto industry. In particular, the Model S's dramatic, unexpected, sharp rise to the top of its class — in terms of sales, consumer satisfaction, glowing reviews, and everything else — was the story of the century. Then along came Model
October 18th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
There has been a little bit of a positive surprise in the past two weeks in Europe. The European Parliament voted a couple of weeks ago to support a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions from transport by 2030, a notably more aggressive transportation emissions cut than the 35% reduction target the European Commission had proposed. That led to a compromise decision to make the target 35%. Exclusive intel I've collected from the inner circles of this world is that this was the first time when such a vote came up that German Chancellor Angela Merkel didn't
October 15th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
For the third year in a row, CleanTechnica has published an in-depth report on electric car drivers in North America and Europe. For the cross-continental report, we surveyed over 2,000 electric car drivers. This year, we also surveyed over 1,000 people who don't yet have an electric car
October 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
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
October 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Exponential electric vehicle adoption has been at play in Norway for several years. I remember attending EVS27 in Barcelona back in late 2013 and the hottest news of previous months had been Norway achieving stunning EV market share milestones. That October, plug-in vehicles had risen to 8% market share! Electric cars had been the top selling cars in the country two months in a row — the Tesla Model S in September and the Nissan LEAF in October. The market share had been 7% in September. 7% and 8% market share were figures no other country would touch for years
October 14th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular articles of the past week included not a single article about Tesla. Psych. As usual, Tesla stories rose to the top of the pack in terms of eyeballs and shares. In fact, the top article has scored over half a million pageviews
October 13th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Here's a long take on why so much of the media covers Tesla in such an odd, unhelpful way
October 13th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In 4 days, on Wednesday, October 17, I will be presenting and moderating panels about the EV revolution during AVERE's AEC2018 conference. In the opening plenary, I will open up the conference with four EV leaders with diverse expertise and surely useful insight to share. Here's the opening lineup
October 13th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Stephanie Ruhle does an excellent job covering macroeconomics and the political matters she covers. Ruhle is one of the most pointed, insightful, and, dare I say, electrifying political commentators on TV. But my goodness, she and the crew at Velshi & Ruhle need to get a clue on the 21st century auto industry
October 12th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla is crushed both Jaguar and Porsche in the 3rd quarter, in terms of worldwide sales/deliveries
October 12th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai continues to progress, with the hottest news being new construction-related jobs posted on Tesla's Chinese website
October 11th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Whoa, did CNBC take a U-turn? Is it going to start trolling oil companies instead of Tesla? Or did it just accidentally bring the wrong analyst onto a show
October 11th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Supplementing this wonderful article by Peter Forman detailing the various ways short sellers are manipulating Tesla stock [TSLA], below is a portion of a superb piece published on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation last November. Here's the start of the article
October 11th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I am here to relay that the Tesla community officially, formally, and with colorful stamps and balloons supports Elon Musk's short statement* in support of Tesla longs and human society
October 10th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Following in its tradition of lending an extra helping hand to those in need (which is, more or less, the entire underlying mission of Tesla), the Californian company is again letting Tesla owners who are in the path of Hurricane Michael get out of the way quicker via free Supercharging
October 10th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla has busted open the mainstream electric vehicle market. The problem is, approximately 17 million passenger vehicles are sold per year in the USA, the number globally is around 100 million, and there's no way in the netherworld Tesla could produce 10 million cars per year on its own by 2023. Even 2025 seems idealistic (but I would love to be proven wrong). Yes, Chinese automakers are ramping up electric vehicle production faster than automakers in the US and Europe, but they aren't taking over the world anytime soon
October 9th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I've been scratching my head for months — or years — but perhaps no more than this past week. Tesla, one of the great American success stories of the century all time, gets clobbered daily in the media. It happens in the right-wing media, in the left-wing media, and in the center-news-network media. Meanwhile, amidst all of the hooping and hollering about stuff they don't understand, those outlets miss the news that
October 8th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla's production and sales growth is stunning. It is one of the most dramatic manufacturing stories in US history, let alone 2018. The sales records and eye-warping bar charts are in multiple important categories, not just in the electric vehicle space. However, one story I haven't seen highlighted yet is that the Tesla Model 3 was the #1 highest selling American car in September
October 8th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The Tesla Model 3 is #1 in safety in the USA, the Model S is #2, and the Model X is #3. In terms of US electric car sales, the ranking is the same — #1 Model 3, #2 Model S, and #3 Model
October 8th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
There's a small secret here on CleanTechnica: We ♥ Tesla. Tesla is pushing transportation into a clean, zero-emission, electric future more than any other company. Nonetheless, we also need leadership from large automakers that weren't born electric. Globally, approximately 96 million passenger vehicles are sold a year. In the US alone, the figure is 17 million or more
October 7th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
With the Tesla Model 3 — the world's best car under $50,000–70,000 — completely humbling old luxury car leaders and giving the most popular cars from Toyota and Honda a run for their money, the ongoing question is, "When will conventional automakers get more serious electric competitors onto the market?"
