“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” — Arthur C. Clarke. A while before the anticipated unveiling of the Tesla Semi, Elon Musk tweeted, “It can transform into a robot, fight aliens and make one hell of a latte.”
Government-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has announced that it will procure 10,000 electric cars through a global tender to supply them to the government of Andhra Pradesh.
Researchers in the UK are working on new supercapacitors they claim can recharge in 10 minutes and power an electric vehicle for up to 350 miles.
The latest Consumer Reports rankings are out and only one US manufacturer made the Top 10 — Tesla. Chrysler just missed out, coming at 11 and beating Ford and GM among American companies.
China has issued new regulations that make car makers responsible for recycling and disposing of old batteries from EVs. It that any way to run a modern economy?
I’ve been reading EV Obsession and CleanTechnica for a while now, using it to help examine electric car costs and pricing to determine how these upcoming vehicles will impact us on a cost basis, and I have read article after article about the Tesla Semi. The articles followed a pattern that it seems like happens with every Tesla product: Tesla announces a product reveal, there are articles hypothesizing about what Tesla will do, then there are articles saying it isn’t possible, then there are articles saying that other companies will do it better before it comes out and no one will care.
CDP’s newest report looks at 100 global cities that have made (or are making) the transition to 100% renewable energy.
What did hundreds of thousands of people read on CleanTechnica in the past week? My monologue on Republican policy problems didn’t crack the top 20, but the following stories certainly lit people up:
There has been a lot of talk about what the fate of Tesla will be when the big legacy automakers start producing EVs in earnest. With their century of experience and established production lines, they will roll over Tesla. They will show how real carmakers take a new model through production.
In December, I was inspired enough by Tesla’s Semi specs and the flow of orders coming in for the trucks that I decided to crunch some numbers to try to estimate various revenue and gross margin possibilities for Tesla from its semi truck offerings. I wanted to start fairly conservative but within the realm of possibility. I ran some estimates for a very modest number of orders first, and then I got more aggressive.
