June 14th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
As reported here and here, there was a lot of information presented at the 2019 Tesla annual shareholder meeting. And although there were a lot of small details covered and hints given about the future, there wasn't any earth-shattering news. In my summary, I noted they didn't "let the cat out of the bag." But I didn't really know what the cat was, so I didn't comment
July 22nd, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
Tesla and SpaceX are not just two companies led by Elon Musk — they are two visions: 1) a sustainable future here on Earth and 2) expanding the human race to other planets. Both companies aiming for these audacious, larger-than-life goals had to face far tougher times than they're facing today
July 19th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
The wait time for the Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwall is going up instead of coming down. JB Straubel says, "Don't worry. Be happy."
July 7th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
All innovative companies attract negative press coverage, but the tide of anti-Tesla scare stories and misinformation has reached such preposterous proportions that it has become a story in itself (remember, colleagues, we’re supposed to report the news, not make it). It’s widely believed that much of the mud, especially the articles that focus on financial and stock-market topics, originates with short sellers, who have collectively bet some $12 billion against the California carmaker
June 9th, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
One of the more interesting revelations to come out of the 2018 Tesla Shareholder Meeting was updated information about Tesla’s current battery costs and projected reductions over the next 2 years
June 7th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla dropped a number of info bombs in its shareholder meeting this week. We've summarized 28 of them in two separate articles. Beyond the headlines about production numbers and finances, Tesla announced a few major new developments, including some insights into its work on battery recycling
June 6th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
I just published 11 highlights from yesterday's 2018 Tesla shareholder meeting. I cut off right around the start of the Q&A session — tweets plus live Q&A. This article continues that initial list to include 17 more highlights. In this case, we have no charts from Tesla, but the highlights may be even more interesting. As usual, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared more details than we could have hoped for, supplemented here and there by CTO JB Straubel, CFO Deepak Ahuja, and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen
May 7th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Elon Musk had some things to say about upgrades in the Supercharger network, replacing the computers in existing cars, and the range of the Tesla Semi at last week's earnings call.
March 25th, 2018 | by Guest Contributor
Ever wondered what’s inside a Tesla battery cell? Well, don’t do what this guy did in a pair of videos from ARIES RC. Opening lithium-ion batteries is a ticklish business. They contain carcinogens, caustic acids, and flammable chemicals that shouldn’t be handled without gloves, if at all. But whatever damage the video host may have done to his own health, there’s no harm for us in watching
August 5th, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
Highly regarded battery storage firm sonnen was one of the big winners of the 2017 Zayed Future Energy Prize, winning in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) category. I interviewed sonnen CEO and co-founder Christoph Ostermann in January just after the company won the prize. It was a fun interview because of how futuristic sonnen's vision is and also because of Mr Ostermann's clear propensity for fun
June 17th, 2017 | by Nicolas Zart
Once upon a time — a long, long time ago — an amazing little unknown Californian company filled with electrical geniuses and two men heading the team, President Tom Gage and Founder Alan Cocconi, revolutionized the automotive world
May 2nd, 2017 | by Guest Contributor
Quoth Straubel: “There’s a new industry that’s yet to be created, which is really a re-processing industry for all of the energy storage devices, all of the batteries that are going into e-mobility. To re-process them and refine them back into new refurbished batteries.”
February 22nd, 2017 | by Kyle Field
In what was likely the most anticipated earnings call ever for Tesla, the auto manufacturer / stationary storage manufacturer / full service solar provider / soon-to-be taxi service / autonomous vehicle technology company (and maybe insurance company in the near future) shared financial results for Q4 2016 and for the full year. Perhaps more importantly, it also unpacked tons of detail for what's to come in the balance of 2017 and beyond
January 31st, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Tesla has completed the world's largest battery grid storage system for Southern California Edison in just 94 days. It will replace a failed natural gas peaker plant and help make more renewable energy possible in the area.
January 1st, 2017 | by Zachary Shahan
I'm not going to attempt to identify which CleanTechnica stories of 2016 were my favorites, but below is a top 50 list of our 50 most popular articles in 2016 based purely on pageviews. After that, there's a top 30 list for December (also purely based on pageviews)
December 30th, 2016 | by James Ayre
Tesla will be hosting an invitation-only “investor event” at its Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, on January 4, according to recent reports. The idea is seemingly that, rather than taking part in CES 2017 in Las Vegas, the company will just host its own event a bit earlier — at its own very impressive battery manufacturing facility a bit to the northwest
September 6th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some interesting comments Tesla CTO JB Straubel made regarding vehicle-to-grid technology and [&hellip
August 22nd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
One of the most popular “future tech” topics I see discussed in comments here on CleanTechnica is “vehicle-to-grid” (aka V2G or “EV-to-grid”) [&hellip
August 2nd, 2016 | by James Ayre
The energy storage firm Axiom Exergy has raised $2.5 million in new funding — from the Element 8 Fund, Victory [&hellip
July 30th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Batman had Robin, Sherlock Holmes had Watson, Napoleon Dynamite had Pedro, Wayne had Garth, and Beavis had Butthead — heroes do [&hellip
May 31st, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
One of the keys to good communication, in my eyes, is to open up and talk to people in an [&hellip
May 30th, 2016 | by Steve Bakker
Pop quiz: You’re at a cocktail party. Inevitably, the conversation turns to electric cars. An attractive member of the opposite [&hellip
May 29th, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Need an EV news fix? Nearly 5,000 EV articles from us at CleanTechnica not enough? Have a look at the [&hellip
May 11th, 2016 | by Kyle Field
JB Straubel Speaks At OCE Discovery JB Straubel is one of my favorite people at Tesla. He speaks as the [&hellip
