September 12th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
NIO is one of the electric vehicle (EV) startups we've been most eagerly watching over the past couple of years. It has the backing of some solid Chinese billionaires, has presented an attractive vehicle design in the car class humans now love most, and has ambitious autonomous and connected vehicle plans
September 12th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In our first week tracking Tesla headlines across major media outlets, several things stood out to us. One of the big takeaways was that a few major media sites routinely publish a ton of articles about Tesla. Furthermore, those same media sites have demonstrated an overall negative slant on the company
September 10th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I'm a huge fan of the media and high-quality journalism. The free press is a cornerstone of democracy, and much more. The largest media outlets in the world have the resources, passion, and expertise to do tremendous investigative reporting that is invaluable to society. But they are dropping the ball on Tesla, misleading consumers in a highly biased manner
September 10th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
CleanTechnica's Maarten Vinkhuyzen recently took a deep dive into a UBS report about the Tesla Model 3. The finding was that the report demonstrated tremendous ignorance at best or intentionally misleading nonsense at worst
September 8th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Below are the most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week. Aside from Tesla, Tesla, Tesla, stories covered the Hyundai Kona, an electric camper, the Mercedes EQC, and more
September 7th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Volkswagen is a fascinating case when it comes to the electric transport transition. With some interesting news coming in this week, we are revisiting some of the key facts and forecasts we have from the company
September 7th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
A handful of EV battery companies dominate global EV battery production. One of those companies is LG Chem, which supplies batteries to nearly every automaker under the sun
September 7th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
After talking about artificial intelligence, samurai swords, old cars, and other tidbits with Joe Rogan tonight, Tesla CEO, Chairman, & Chief Humor Officer Elon Musk got to talking about Tesla. My favorite statement from the interview was where Elon emphasized that Tesla vehicles aren't really cars — "a Tesla is a thing to maximize enjoyment."
September 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Let's just start with some numbers. Below are USA sales totals for the month of August from several top luxury car brands. Additionally, I've included an estimate for Tesla's sales in the USA. While we don't have precise numbers from Tesla, there is now confirmation from CEO Elon Musk that Tesla sold more cars in the USA in August than BMW, which means it sold more cars than all the other brands in the headline
September 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Three weeks ago, I published that I expected the Tesla Model 3 would be the 5th best selling car in the United States in August. That has now been confirmed. (Note: we're just talking cars, not SUVs or pickup trucks.)
September 5th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
You know what they say — "As long as there's been Tesla, there've been Tesla killers."
September 5th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
AVERE’s E-Mobility Conference (AEC2018), taking place on 17 and 18 October 2018 in Brussels, is gearing up to be THE conference to set the tone for the electrification of transport for the next decade
September 4th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I've been curious lately — how has Tesla coverage in the mainstream media evolved over time? Has Tesla coverage always been batshit crazy? Or is that a relatively new thing? Last week, I wrote about dramatically negative press sentiment about Tesla that was prevalent 10 years ago. The company was sure to die any day, according to smart dudes at The Truth About Cars, the New York Times, and most outlets in between
September 3rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I recently interviewed a major auto executive. Below is an edited transcript of our interview
September 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I am proud to be on the side of working-class Americans. I'm proud to support progressive political candidates who are working to get millions more people the basic health care, livable wages, and core education that are the bedrock of a healthy, happy, successful country
September 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla Shuttle, a city-to-city Tesla shuttle service (who would have guessed it from the name?), has expanded into the United States
September 2nd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Automaker executives from Ford, GM, Nissan, and Toyota are fond of saying that not very many consumers want electric cars. They sometimes claim they could make many more electric cars, but customers are not asking for electric cars. (They somehow ignore the hundreds of thousands of orders Tesla has pulled in for the Model 3.)
September 1st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
The most popular CleanTechnica stories of the past week happened to be led by fake news — real fake news, not journalism that just happens to reveal Donald Trump crimes and cons. That said, the fake news is news with a purpose — it's satire of some of the anti-Tesla hit pieces we're seeing in higher and higher number
September 1st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla CEO & Chairman Elon Musk is a wild man, a mad scientist who has lost his marbles, a gorilla ape gazillionaire who has brilliantly brainwashed the masses, a South African clone of Conor McGregor
August 31st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In this week's Titillating Tesla Chat episode, Tomek, Jacek, and I talked sales, sales, sales. As much as we report about it and as much as it has been long planned and projected, it is mind-blowing that Tesla has gone from essentially no sales a decade ago to production and sale of approximately 20,000 cars a month today
August 31st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Math is not that hard, but you have to get all the numbers in place before you perform the calculation. If you collect "5+3" and conclude the answer is "8," that may seem well and good, but what if the left side of the equation is actually "5+3-5-10?"
August 31st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
You can find estimates for Tesla Model 3 production left, right, and center these days. What's nice is when you can find an estimate from people with a good track record, people who did a good job estimating sales in previous months and quarters. When those estimates are based on solid, robust data, all the better
August 31st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
People be crazy, ya know
August 31st, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
If you haven't noticed, there's a small nation of people collecting clues around Tesla's Model 3 production. One of the top clue databases is the place where new VINs drop. (VINs = vehicle identification numbers.)
August 30th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
It's not going to be popular with some of you, but I have to say, I've never liked Twitter. I see the value in it. I see its pros. But I think it crunches too much information down into one-liners and often takes away from deeper exploration and reflection. The constantly and quickly flowing stream of tweets makes every tweet fleeting. It's a system built on such an excessive and fast information flow that it treats much of that information as useless. Maybe it is useless, but that just makes it more useless
August 30th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Tesla vehicles are extremely popular among the Hollywood, basketball, and rap elite. Shaq fits the bill on all three counts, so of course he has a Tesla (probably more than one*). Our friends at Unplugged Performance recently had the honor of customizing an aging Model S of his. Have a watch
August 29th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
10 years ago, now-rabid CNBC didn't know Tesla from your mother. Fox News was busy complaining that Obama encouraged people to keep their tires well inflated. Seeking Alpha? Well, I couldn't find a single Tesla story on Seeking Alpha published in the month of August 2008. But some geniuses on a website called "The Truth About Cars" were onto something. They published episode #17 of their "Tesla Death Watch."
August 28th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
CleanTechnica is a somewhat narrowly focused news & analysis site. We primarily cover technology that helps to reduce pollution (cleantech). It should surprise no one to read that one of the biggest companies in this niche field is Tesla. Tesla now produces far more electric cars on a weekly basis than any other automaker outside of China. It produces and installs solar panels. It produces both home-scale and gigantic battery storage units. And it will soon produce electric semi trucks. As such, I'd say it is unsurprising that a large portion of our stories concern Tesla in some way or another. But what is going on with
August 28th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Holy cow — have you seen the pictures?! There are thousands of cars sitting on lots across the United States — unsold
August 27th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
Our friends at top electric vehicle (EV) data collection and analysis firm EV Volumes have just published European plug-in vehicle sales results for the first half of 2018. The most notable stat is probably the one in the headline — 42% market growth year over year (YoY). Additionally, in total, the number of plug-in vehicles on the street in Europe passed 1 million
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