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Largest Auto-Industry Employer In California: Electric-Car Maker Tesla Motors

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years.

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Automakers 'not even trying' to sell electric cars, Tesla says

Green Car Reports

But as it has in so many other areas, electric-car maker Tesla Motors is bucking tradition. While the federal government and California Air Resources Board (CARB) are evaluating auto-industry.

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How BMW can compete with Tesla electric cars: future i5, plug-in hybrids, says advocate

Green Car Reports

For a decade now, Tesla Motors has been the "black swan" of the auto industry. It's a California company startup, founded from scratch, using a new powertrain, that against all odds has sold more than 100,000 electric cars and created a brand known worldwide.

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DOE expands partnership with industry to advance next-generation automotive technologies, adds Tesla and EPRI as members: US DRIVE

Green Car Congress

The announcement of US DRIVE marks the addition of two new members that bring additional focus on electric-drive vehicle technologies to the partnership: the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Tesla Motors. Energy industry: BP America, Chevron Corporation, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil Corporation, and Shell Oil Products US.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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USCAR helps to develop charging-readiness tools for plug-in & electric vehicles through US DRIVE

Green Car Congress

The goal of USCAR is to further strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research and development. USCAR is a partner in US DRIVE, which stands for United States Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle efficiency and Energy sustainability.

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DOE Closes $465M Loan to Tesla Motors

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy has closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. for construction of a manufacturing facility in southern California on the Model S electric sedan and a power-train manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. Earlier post.). Energy Secretary Steven Chu.