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Remember That Time Ford Went Private? Elon Musk & Henry Ford Both Irritated By Short-Term…

7 years ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

Editor’s note: Below is a portion of an article published on the EVANNEX blog. While Henry Ford might not have been fighting with short sellers, oil barons, and Twitter trolls, he, like Elon Musk, was also dogged and irritated by short-term thinkers more interested in quarter-to-quarter financials than long-term vision and growth. Charles Morris relays a story about Henry Ford getting so fed up with it that narrow, near-term mindset that he took Ford Motor Company private. Musk has read up on Ford quite a bit, so perhaps this anecdote kept coming to mind as Musk verbally wrestled with analysts. Alas, it’s 2018 and the Tesla story is more complicated than the Ford story — in several ways — which has ended up dissipating the idea of Tesla going private. In any case, this comparison is a fascinating little look at the kind of thing that businessmen like Musk and Ford sometimes have to struggle with.

Beyond The Tesla Model 3: What’s The Next “Hit” EV In The US?

7 years ago Loren McDonald 0 Comments

The Tesla Model 3 has now moved into the top sales ranks of all cars in the US, not just EVs, as CleanTechnica director and chief editor Zachary Shahan wrote recently in “Tesla Model 3 — 7th/8th Best Selling Car In USA — Is In A Class Of Its Own.”

This success and sales volume of the Model 3 in comparison to every other electric vehicle available in the US raises the question: What current or future model will be the next high-volume (“hit”) electric vehicle?

7 Charts — Tesla Model 3 vs The Competition (US Sales)

7 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

As Tesla Model 3 production and sales have grown, I’ve felt more and more inspired to compare the car’s scorecard against that of other models. I intended to update my “Small & Midsize Luxury Car Sales” charts and report this weekend, but then got a bit carried away. As a result, below are 7 sales charts regarding the Tesla Model 3 and some of its wide ranging “competition,” which includes not only small and midsize luxury cars but also some of the most popular, mass-market cars in the United States.

Tesla Model 3 Review — The Things You Haven’t Read — #CleanTechnica Review

7 years ago Guest Contributor 0 Comments

I’ll start out with the fact that Tesla cheats. In fact, so do all fully electric vehicles to some extent. Build an EV and put the battery pack on the floor — instant superior handling is obtained by simple physics. Then, add a silent, dutifully designed and powerful electric motor, and gas cars don’t have a chance. We all have heard about EVs’ low maintenance and instant torque. Put all of this into a low-cost, attractive package and the modern electric vehicle should sell itself. And indeed, this is the tale of Tesla’s success with the Model 3.

Tesla Model 3, Model X, & Model S = #1, #2, #3 In US Electric…

7 years ago Zachary Shahan 0 Comments

Let’s get the biggest matter out of the way right off the bat: no one outside of Tesla really has a clue as to how many Model 3s were delivered in the US in each month of Q2. Yes, we have a Model 3 delivery total from Tesla for the quarter as a whole, but the company doesn’t break that down by month or region. For a while, the slowly growing ramp allowed us to estimate without too much difficulty, but a few things changed in May and June.

Instead of Building Better Cars, Ford Resorts to Unsuccessful Schoolyard Bullying Tactics

7 years ago Kyle Field 0 Comments

Ford EMEA president and group vice president Steven Armstrong took to Twitter the other day to respond to Elon’s tweet about Tesla’s hard earned success in building 7,000 vehicles in a week. In his response, Mr. Armstrong made it clear that he had no control over his fingers and had no business being a VP at Ford. He decided to mock Tesla, stating that Ford makes 7,000 cars in about 4 hours, but skipping past the point that they are not critically clean, electric vehicles.