Pop quiz: You’re at a cocktail party. Inevitably, the conversation turns to electric cars. An attractive member of the opposite sex leans over to you, sizes you up as someone who knows their amps from their volts, focuses a pair of bedroom blue eyes in your direction that burn a hole … [continued]
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JB Straubel Speaks At OCE Discovery JB Straubel is one of my favorite people at Tesla. He speaks as the eternal optimist, always hopeful and pushing for the brighter future that he has already imagined to be possible. The better world for humanity is not just a construct doomed to a … [continued]
As the Tesla Model 3 unveil gets closer and closer, I’m getting the sense that some people are getting rather impatient. To throw those who feel this way a bit of a scrap here, Tesla’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), JB Straubel, recently spoke on the subject at the IHS Energy CERAWeek event in Houston, Texas.
Originally published on EV Obsession. James covered most of the really interesting news from Tesla’s Q3 2015 conference call. If you missed those, they’re here: Positive Tesla Model X & Autopilot Reception Increasing Overall Tesla Sales Numbers Gigafactory Update — Quarter 3 Conference Call Reveals New Info Tesla Q4 Plans … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Tesla’s Chief Technology Officer, JB Straubel, recently revealed that the Model 3 will make use of mostly new technology — rather than simply reusing many of the technologies used in the Model S sedan and the Model X SUV. The interesting comments came during a … [continued]
Check ’em out (or else!): Tesla CPO Program Appears To Be Up & Running In Europe + Canada It seems to be the case that Tesla’s Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) program is now up and running in Europe and Canada, going by the looks of things. At least 10 countries in … [continued]
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Things being better — that’s what this conversation with Ted Craver, Elon Musk, and JB Straubel (the first video below) is all about. This interview took place at an Edison Electric Institute event and is a conversation worth adding to any collection of Elon Musk or Tesla Motors videos (Nikola Tesla … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Tesla Motors CTO JB Straubel was the headliner at Intersolar North America last week. He talked about the transition to lithium-ion batteries and how that opened the floodgates for electric cars and stationary storage (eventually); the synergy between EVs, solar, and grid storage; the growth … [continued]
