GM is sitting on something big with a healthy lead over most of its competition, but the landscape requires quick thinking and acting. The Bolt, Maven, and manufacturing might help the giant ride the next century.
Mazda says it may use a small version of of its rotary power plant as a range extender engine for plug-in hybrid vehicles. Its compact dimensions and low weight could make it ideal for just such an application.
The Chevy Bolt is the new sales leader for electric cars in California. outselling all others including the Model S. That may change, if and when Tesla succeeds at building its new Model 3 in significant numbers.
The partnership of Ford and India’s Mahindra & Mahindra on electric mobility will reportedly deliver its first car next year — the electric Aspire.
Put a Jaguar I-Pace up against Tesla Model X. Ask both cars to accelerate to 60 and then come to a complete stop in the shortest possible distance. Which car will win?
Here’s our February electric car sales report for the United States, which complements our just-published Europe and China electric car sales reports.
As usual, the report only includes electric cars from Tesla and companies that report their monthly plug-in car sales. Furthermore, the Tesla sales are not official and are based on several Tesla statements, Tesla reports, Tesla forecasts, and broader consumer investigation. This month, I also started crowdsourcing estimates for Model 3 deliveries. My estimate was leaning toward 3,000, but I decided to go with Knetter’s estimate of 3,030 for the report.
As many of you know, we’ve got a Tesla shuttle service that we’ve been rolling out in Central Europe — it’s called Tesla Shuttle. We’ve gotten many questions about whether we offer service in other regions — the UK, USA, Australia, etc. We get the inquiries from people interested in using such a service, people interested in driving for such a service, and people interested in partnering in other ways. After numerous inquiries and a little bit of thought, we’ve decided it could make a lot of sense to expand our vision.
It’s been a busy few days, but here at last is the list of CleanTechnica’s most popular articles in February. From the several million views that landed on our cyber shores last month, these 20 were especially good at tickling eyeballs and brain cells.
When I was going through the Q4 2017 Tesla shareholder letter for a recent article, what might seem like a minor comment caught my attention. Tesla wrote, “We incorporated all the learnings from the development and production of Roadster, Model S, and Model X to create the world’s first mass market electric vehicle that is priced on par with its gasoline-powered equivalents – even without incentives.”
In January, the Tesla board (with Elon Musk abstaining) voted to implement new CEO incentive and reward structure for Elon Musk. There have been numerous articles about what this could represent for Elon Musk, but not much is written about the consequences for Tesla.
