With a virtuous cycle of falling battery costs driving increased electric vehicle deployment, and deployment improving the economics of scale of battery production, the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is likely inevitable. But policies enacted now could influence the timing of widespread use and shape how electric cars benefit the grid.
The all-electric racing series Formula E has confirmed the course that Zurich, Switzerland, will be hosting on June 10, 2018. The race will be quite a historic occasion. It will be the first time that circuit racing has taken place in Switzerland in more than 60 years. Circuit racing has … [continued]
Elon Musk has posted a video on Instagram showing the Model 3 production line operating at 1/10th speed. When will full production begin?
Though cars get most of the attention, batteries will participate in our cleantech energy transition on land, in the air and by sea. And in today’s Cleantech Talk, we cover them all. It’s something of a “double-cheeseburger” episode, in that we stretched ourselves around four topics instead of the usual two. Let us know in the comments if you liked the format, and if you have a few minutes, please leave us an iTunes review to make it easier for like-minded folks to find us!
I love doing the US electric car sales report at the end of each quarter. With Tesla’s quarterly figures published, Tesla registration data from Europe and China mostly logged, my estimates for the first two months of the quarter, and a little more estimating (Australia, UAE, etc.), I’m able to check out the remainder I have left for Tesla sales in the last month of the quarter. As has happened nearly every time before, the figure that resulted for US sales in that third month of the quarter actually looked logical, so I left all previous months as initially projected.
Sergio Marchionne told the press last week that too many electric cars will endanger the world because the emissions from generating plants will increase. They must have access to some really good marijuana in Italy these days.
Global plug-in electric vehicle sales were up 46% year-on-year during the first half of 2017 (as compared to the first half of 2016), according to the most recent figures from our friends over at EV-Volumes.
This year’s Cities100 reveals how more cities are beginning to acknowledge the social, economic, and environmental benefits of climate action and adaptation. By taking climate action, cities can simultaneously future-proof against challenges such as overpopulation, air pollution, and extreme weather events, and save trillions of dollars on, for example, energy and health.
Three unique factors are at play for Tesla: low battery costs, high option uptake, and production efficiencies. Let’s take a look at these three determining factors that could impact gross margin for Tesla’s Model 3.
Could Tesla’s communication protocol challenge Big Auto’s lumbering, bureaucratic boardroom culture?
