Much celebrated Doug Field has departed Tesla for greener (and less stressful) pastures. Now that Tesla has built more than 5,000 Model 3 sedans in one week, the question on everyone’s lips is, “Can they do it on a regular basis?”
At a time when Panasonic is considering additional investment in Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, others are increasingly seeing the benefit of research support to find alternatives to politically, structurally, and geographically problematic cobalt.
Since the very beginning, Tesla has attracted negative press coverage, ranging from honest skepticism to unhinged conspiracy theories. Back in the early days, a column called Tesla Death Watch trumpeted the company’s financial difficulties, and a website called Boycott Tesla spun wild stories of exploding cars and sinister cover-ups
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.
Long ago, reviewers pondered over the Tesla Model S being “the Jesus Christ of automobiles.” But what about Tesla’s newer, lower-priced Model 3? It turns out the company’s smaller sedan has also been well received by both mainstream and automotive media outlets. Maxim, the swashbuckling men’s magazine, recently joined the fray with its own review of “the world’s most controversial car,” asking the all-important question: “Does Elon Musk’s baby live up to the hype?”
Dating back to the early days of Model S production, Elon Musk has been feuding with Tesla short sellers. Back then, Musk cautioned those betting against Tesla stock that a “tsunami of hurt” was coming their way. Sure enough, it did. Tesla’s stock skyrocketed. And last year, when the stock was surging, Musk taunted shorts on Twitter, “Stormy weather in shortville.” According to Zero Hedge, “Elon Musk’s feud with Tesla shorts is not business, it’s just personal.”
Tesla’s second quarter vehicle production and delivery update is essentially an official sigh of relief after more than a year of what Elon Musk calls “production hell.”
In January, the California Public Utilities Commission authorized Pacific Gas & Electric to solicit proposals that would address energy reliability needs in three portions of its service area. In February, PG&E began that process and received a number of proposals from a variety of bidders. After sorting and sifting through … [continued]
The big news for the CleanTechnica family this week was the addition of a new BMW i3 REx to the family. Our very own Zachary Shahan moved with his family from Poland to Florida. The move required that he leave Tesla Shuttle’s Tesla Model S in Poland, leaving Zach and the family to find a new car.
I knew of a guru who once stated: “Cooperation plus tolerance equals peace.” A simple, easy-to-understand maxim. Yet difficult to manifest. The strategy may only have a chance of working if there is faith on the part of all parties.
