Originally published on EV Obsession. The recent Tesla Quarter 3 shareholder letter has, as would be expected, provided us with some new figures worth taking note of and parsing. Of particular note — other than basic revenue and profit figures — are the figures detailing vehicle production and delivery numbers. … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Work on the Gigafactory is running ahead of schedule, with a production line for Powerpacks and Powerwalls even being moved from the Fremont facility to an automated assembly line at the Gigafactory early in Quarter 4, according to Tesla’s most recent shareholder letter. This follows … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Tesla has revealed who its new Chief Financial Officer will be after Deepak Ahuja steps down; as well who will be filling the position of President of Global Sales and Service. The new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Jason Wheeler, will be assuming his position on … [continued]
A Vanity Fair article contains some anecdotes about Elon Musk and some of his family members having the entrepreneurial bug since they were teens in South Africa. Lyndon and Peter Rive are Elon’s cousins and the co-founders of SolarCity. His brother Kimbal worked with him at Zip2, which was sold for several hundred … [continued]
As November begins, promises from individual countries to the United Nations have addressed nearly 90% of the world’s current greenhouse gas emissions. The world consensus aims to reduce and stabilize them in order to keep earth’s temperatures from climbing higher than two degrees Celsius by 2100. Since the preindustrial 18th century, temps have … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The Los Angeles Police Department’s quite stylish BMW i3 electric vehicle made an appearance at the Petersen Automotive Museum’s most recent “Breakfast Club Cruise-In.” The most recent event had an Oktoberfest theme, but the cars that made an appearance there ranged from the aforementioned BMW … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Those of you who have long wondered what the electric vehicle battery manufacturing plants that create the packs used in popular vehicles like the Nissan LEAF, Chevy Volt, etc, are like behind the scenes may want to listen up right now. Some of the writers … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. Earlier this year, Tesla Motors bought Riviera Tool, a company in western Michigan that produced tooling and dies used to make parts for Tesla automobiles. Michigan is overflowing with companies like Riviera Tool that support the auto manufacturing industry. “The former Rivera Tool and Die, now Tesla Michigan, was already … [continued]
A little over a year ago, we announced that Mercedes had kicked off a Fuso Canter E-Cell pilot in Portugal to test out its light trucks in real-world environments, and the results are finally in. Delivery and transport trucks are a key opportunity for EV technology, as they typically run on … [continued]
Volvo has been one of the quieter players in the EV space, and as such, I’m all the more excited to see its hot-off-the-presses “Global Electrification Strategy.” The company is no Tesla, but its new plan announces a solid effort to integrate electrification into its current lineup, which will allow it to … [continued]
