As you may have heard by now, Nevada has more Gigafactory wooing skills and natural attraction than California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Tesla CEO, Chairman, and Product Architect Elon Musk and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced that Nevada pulled Tesla in with an incentives package equal to $1.2 billion. Meh… I guess that … [continued]
Tesla’s Gigafactory may achieve the $100/kWh holy grail of EV battery pack costs, according to recent reports. Most analysts within the EV industry consider the $100-per-KW-hour water mark to be the big “tipping point” for EV batteries — that is to say, the point at which EVs will be undeniably cost-competitive … [continued]
Originally Published in the ECOreport Tesla motors has already defied the odds. Few in the automotive world expected to see a high priced electric vehicle like the Model S achieve such recognition. It has also dramatically boosted the sales of Panasonic batteries, and now Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to … [continued]
Tesla Motors announced big plans earlier this year. Though the agreement is not public, Panasonic is also involved: it plans to manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells Tesla uses to build battery packs to power electric cars. Specifically, said Sebastian Blanco of Autoblog Green in June, batteries from Tesla’s announced Gigafactory … [continued]
Back in a podcast interview in May, Nevada resident and long-time EV enthusiast Bob Tregilus mentioned to me that he thought he saw Tesla work being done on a site nearby (just outside of Reno), presumably work related to the Tesla and Panasonic’s Gigafactory. Indeed, it seems Bob was right. Reports are out that Tesla … [continued]
Here’s some more electric vehicle news from around the interwebs: Jo drives some neighborhood electric vehicles and then tells us what he thinks of them. (GAS2) The Tesla Model S has a new color option, metallic grey. There are only a few Teslas with this color so far. A redditor recently … [continued]
Rocky Mountain Institute. By Jesse Morris. Four short years ago, the U.S. solar industry surpassed expectations by installing 340 MW of solar at a cost of $6.40 per watt in the first half of 2010. How times have changed. In the first quarter of this year alone, the U.S. installed … [continued]
Cannibal cars can solve a global critical materials crisis for the EV market, based on a new process for rendering old tires into lithium-ion batteries.
The global energy storage market will rise to $50 billion by the year 2020, according to Lux Research — with a predicted compound annual growth rate of 8% until then. Much of the predicted rise will be in “transportation applications,” which will rise to $21 billion by 2020, according to … [continued]
Honestly, this one wasn’t planned: last night, I wrote about a new study concluding that until EV battery costs get down to $100 per kWh, most US consumers would be better off going with an electric car with less than 100 miles of range rather than splurging for a long-range electric car. … [continued]
