Tesla Motors, as a pioneer in the electric car space, has to fight numerous battles and overcome numerous hurdles that won’t be in the way of electric cars or electric car companies a few years down the road. It’s not winning every one, but it’s good to see that it … [continued]
Naturally, we spent the week covering the top electric car stories of the week — check out those 24 stories here. In addition to those stories, here are 6 more top electric car stories, a bike story, an electric bus story, and a rail story worth a read: Electric Cars … [continued]
Originally posted on Gas 2.0. A petition has been started on the WhiteHouse.gov website to allow Tesla Motors to sell its own cars directly to its customers in all 50 states of the USA. If you think Tesla should be able to sell its cars directly to customers, you should … [continued]
This article originally appeared on Gas2. The New York State Automobile Dealers Association is pressuring the government to ban automobile manufacturers from registering their own stores, in order to force them to sell through third-party dealers. But a bill put before the New York State legislature died on the vine, … [continued]
I’m not going to lie — I’m not a fan of premature speculation. Nonetheless, it’s hard to avoid it when it involves Tesla, Google, and Apple, and when it’s started by Bloomberg. So, here’s the (super premature) speculation, why Tesla isn’t going to be sold anytime soon, and why we … [continued]
I think we just lucked out. A reader has passed along a bunch of videos from the Tesla Model S battery swap demo and the follow-up Q&A session with Elon Musk. There are a lot of interesting answers in the Q&A videos that I haven’t seen or heard elsewhere (and … [continued]
Catching up on some top clean transport news, below are 9 electric vehicle (EV) and 11 bike stories we wouldn’t want you to miss, and one more rogue transportation story. Of course, check out our Clean Transportation category for the top EV and bike stories of the week. Electric Vehicles … [continued]
Update June 22: See 17 videos of the battery swap and follow-up Q&A with Elon Musk here. Original Post: You thought battery swapping was over, didn’t you? But then along came Tesla with another big announcement…. Tesla’s last big announcement following months of good news and press conferences was the announcement … [continued]
Tesla just about 14 hours ago announced via email to reporters that it would be performing a live battery pack swap demo tomorrow (Thursday, June 20) at 8:00pm (doors opening at 7:30pm) at Tesla’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. Actually, as with many things Tesla, Tesla CEO and Chairman Elon Musk … [continued]
Things can’t go right for anyone all the time. Tesla’s had a streak of good news lately, but it just ran into one problem — Model S vehicles manufactured between May 10 and June 8 of this year “may contain a defect.” There haven’t actually been any customer complaints, but being … [continued]
