CleanTechnica is on Tesla’s Q3 2018 earnings call starting at 3:30pm Pacific on October 24th, 2018. You can livestream or listen to the recording here and we will be live blogging the action as it happens. From the quarterly letter, we already know that Tesla has turned a profit, riding … [continued]
Tesla has just published its Q3 shareholder letter, which is an absolute blowout. It is far better than even our supposedly “optimistic” forecast. The bullet-point highlights are as follows:
As a consequence of the current trade war, Tesla faces an extra 25% on top of the standard 15% general import duty when importing into China from the USA. That is 25% more than imported German cars and more than 50% over locally produced vehicles that are eligible for EV incentives.
Despite intense media scrutiny around all things Tesla, Tesla’s Model 3 has maintained its status as the #1 best selling car in the US in terms of revenue. That goes for both September and all of Q3.
According to a government filing made today in Shanghai, Tesla intends to produce two models at its Chinese Gigafactory in the factory’s first phase — Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3.
Alta Motors is a victim of focusing too narrowly for effective entrepreneurialism. Its vision is to be admired. Its aspiration to compete directly with specialized gas offroad bikes was fulfilled. But unlike Tesla, it wasn’t going after a big enough market for investors to care.
Germany chemical giant BASF and Russian mining conglomerate Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) have inked a new deal for nickel and cobalt supply.
Tesla is moving its earnings call from the beginning of November to Wednesday, October 24. This is going to be a historic earnings call for Tesla for multiple reasons. During last quarter’s earnings call, CleanTechnica got the chance to ask some questions as well. While there is no guarantee that we will get that chance again, we are hopeful and this time we have been preparing.
Sandy Munro and his team at Munro and Associates have been tearing cars down for decades. As legacy gas and diesel powertrains are being replaced by electrified versions and new electric car companies continue to sprout (seemingly every other day), Munro and Associates are putting their experience to work tearing down the latest and greatest electric cars.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter a few hours ago to break the news that an update to version 9.0 of its vehicle firmware would be rolling out soon with “Navigate on Autopilot.”
