Will Electric Motorcycles Jump Start A Dying Industry?
Motorcycle sales are half what they were 10 years ago. Can electric motorcycles reignite interest in riding a bike?
Martin Eberhard
EV Archeology — Unearthing Key Artifacts From The Annals Of Electric Car History (Part 1)
Pop quiz: What American automaker brought a pure electric car to market in the 1990s? Even a fresh-faced neophyte to the world of EVs probably knows the answer. But wait. Here’s another one: What automaker attempted to make a pure electric car in the 1960s, and again in the 1970s? Fewer may know the answer to that one. Final question: What automaker triggered a series of events in 1990 that led to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passing a mandate requiring all major automakers to have no-emissions cars be a percentage of their sales by 1998?
SF Motors Holds Landmark Global Partnership Meeting at Silicon Valley Headquarters
U.S.-based EV company SF Motors convened key advisors, including Martin Eberhard, and executives from more than 60 global automotive suppliers to discuss R&D and manufacturing to outline their strategic plans to bring a dedicated EV brand to the U.S. automotive market.
AC Propulsion tzero, The Godfather of Modern EVs
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.
Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning, Founders Of Tesla, Talk EVs
Originally published on EV Annex. By Charles Morris Put on the popcorn and curl up on the couch – this long and meaty talk with Tesla founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, delivered at Stanford last October, is well worth watching from start to finish. It’s a rare treat for … [continued]
Tesla Storage Ambitions Date Back To 2007? Old Blog Post Removed From Tesla’s Website Years…
Exactly how far back do Tesla’s commercial energy storage ambitions date? An interesting question. Considering the seemingly common-sense “symbiosis” of electric vehicle production operations and commercial battery storage operations, one would probably think that the idea has been in the minds of Tesla’s executives for quite some time. Interestingly, there … [continued]
