August 29th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Afeez Damilola Alade-Kolawole, founder of Tesla Rentals and ecarTestDrives, recently took a Tesla Model S P100D to the famous Santa Pod Raceway’s Ultimate Street Car competition. It will surprise no one here to learn that the Tesla was a winner
August 28th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
The electric vehicle revolution presents a once-in-a-century opportunity. Countries around the world import an insane amount of oil. They send their hard-earned cash abroad — billions of dollars of it every day — to oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia, the USA, Russia, Canada, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, and Venezuela because of a deadly and economically debilitating addiction
August 28th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
The following is an open letter to Renault-Nissan Alliance Chairman & CEO, Renault Chairman & CEO, and Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn and to Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa. If you would like to add your name to the letter, please do so via this Google Form
August 27th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
I compared Tesla Model 3 specs to the specs of its top gasoline-powered competitors a few weeks ago, but I didn't provide comprehensive sales data at that time and several people requested such information. I was curious as well, so I dug it up and turned it into a couple of charts (below). Rather than just set you free with the data here, I thought I'd have a little fun here. Below is my take on why someone would buy each of these gasoline-chugging models in 2017 or
August 26th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Apparently, slamming the Big 3 of Germany — Daimler, BMW, and Volkswagen — is in fashion in German politics. Or chief politicians in Germany are just fed up
August 26th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Our "Electric Car Charging in the City" webinar is starting in a mere seconds! You can watch, ask questions, and make comments on Zoom or on our Facebook page. As noted yesterday, this #Electrifying webinar features a discussion between Artur Sychov (Founder & CEO of EasyCharge.me), Kyle Field (CleanTechnica's VP of Business Development & Chief EV Reviewer), and me. We will chat about the EV charging solutions at hand, the challenges, the way forward, and how we envision the next 1–17 years in the automotive/transport world
August 26th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Long before the final Tesla Model 3 interior was shown, there was daily chatter about the minimalist, sparse, button-free, knob-free, and clean look of the Model 3 interior and especially the dash. Some loved it. Some hated it. Plenty of commenters claimed it was just an effort to cut costs
August 25th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
With the next-generation Nissan LEAF, Chevy Bolt, and Tesla Model 3 all making fully electric transport much more practical for normal households, we are entering another phase of the electric vehicle revolution. However, they still hold at their core a double-edged technicality — they offer luxuriously convenient home charging for people who can charge at home, but keeping them conveniently charged if you don't have home charging can be a mighty challenge
August 25th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
The same stories come out over and over again as new technologies arrive, start to get popular, and then sweep across the mass market. It happened with the washing machine, with flat-screen TVs, with cell phones and iPhones, and now with electric cars and Teslas
August 24th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Reuters is reporting that the coming Tesla Semi's range (on a single charge) is likely to be 200–300 miles. Elon isn't tweeting a denial, so we'll take this as quite likely for now
August 24th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Humans are a funny type of people. We don't do long-term planning all that well, and that includes planning for a year out, for 5 years out, and for our eventual time of death
August 23rd, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
In a recent EV Annex article, I discovered a Jason Calacanis, who Wikipedia tells me is an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and blogger. I should have known he had the blogger force in him — he nailed the headline above for me. The rich Internet dude apparently has a few Teslas in his stable (well, every model) and had the right connections to get an early Tesla Model
August 21st, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
The top 20 articles of the week didn't include a single Tesla article, and especially not a Tesla Model 3 article! (Just kidding.)
August 21st, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Anti-cleantech companies, think tanks, politicians, and messengers like to talk a lot about renewable energy and electric car subsidies. Meanwhile, they pretend to think that fossil fuels have gotten no subsidies and continue to get no subsidies. That's absolutely rubbish, but it's more or less something we're going to ignore in this article
August 21st, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Several countries have now announced or considered plans to ban gas- and diesel-powered cars by a certain year. These eventual bans are certainly welcome and helpful from a messaging and persuasion standpoint, but if you look at the expected exponential growth curve of electric car adoption, banning polluting cars in 2040 or 2050 doesn't actually look like a very bold move. More or less, it looks like that will happen anyway from simple market forces
August 20th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently compared the specs of the Tesla Model 3 to the specs of 22 gas-powered competitors that are more or less "in the Model 3's class." Naturally, readers also requested that we compare the Model 3 with other electric cars in such a detailed way. So here we are!
August 19th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Need to write a press release about some electric vehicle (EV) vaporware? Need to counter another announcement from Tesla? Need to act like you're on the cutting edge of auto tech and the burgeoning car-as-a-service (CaaS) market? Need to fend off the shareholder push to be an electrification leader? Have no fear — an EV press release template is here!
August 18th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
This weekend, members of the Tesla Shuttle crew are going to attempt to break the world record for miles/kilometers driven on a single charge in an electric car. The attempt is being led by Tomasz Gać, founder/CEO of Quriers and co-founder of Tesla Shuttle. But I'm also one of those people and will be doing a good chunk of the driving — weather permitting. A third co-founder, Jacek Fior, and I did a test drive for several hours recently. Below the video (and in the video chat) are some of my notes from that test drive
August 18th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has projected demand of around 700,000 cars a year for the Tesla Model 3. Some of you think that's optimistic. Some of you think it's pessimistic. Some of you probably wouldn't bet one way or the other. Below are a few considerations on each side of the coin
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