Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: What owners want from the next-generation 2016 Chevrolet Volt, a ride in an ell-electric BYD K9 electric bus, and auto dealers try charm in their battle against Tesla Motors'' direct-sales model. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2013

Well, this is a new tactic we haven''t seen before in the fight between franchised auto dealers and Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric-car startup. The bills, now.'

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tesla Motors is facing a formidable opponent it may not have sufficiently appreciated: the auto dealers of America, and their state associations. Tesla, you may remember, is selling its electric cars online, not through franchised, independently owned dealers, and delivering them directly to buyers from the factory.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2014 Detroit Auto Show is upon us, and we''re bringing you all the details on the (few) greener vehicles from the show. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Tesla Motors will upgrade electric-car wall chargers for.'

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2014

The battle between Tesla Motors, which sells its electric cars directly to buyers over the Internet, and the nation''s auto dealers--who want to make that practice illegal--is now in its fifth year. With a.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

In an ongoing battle with Tesla Motors, state auto dealer associations have continually touted the superiority of the traditional franchised dealer model. While surveys have shown that many car buyers are frustrated with the process, dealers claim Tesla's direct sales model does not benefit customers.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Historically, auto dealerships have made as much or more money selling used cars as new ones. Since electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn''t have dealerships, but sells cars online directly to buyers, that has left the question of buying used Teslas to owners who may want to sell.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Could Australia''s loss be Tesla Motors'' gain? As Ford, General Motors'' Holden division, and Toyota prepare to shut down their Australian factories, the Silicon Valley electric-car maker is attempting a talent grab.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Every month, and often more frequently, a new story appears about the state-by-state battle between Tesla Motors and auto-dealer lobbyists. In some states, Tesla is permitted to sell its electric cars online, deliver them to customers, and open as many Tesla Store showrooms as it wants.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Suppose auto dealers in a neighboring state pressured their DoT to make Tesla Motors stop giving test drives of its Model S electric car--the same kind it now offers in more than a dozen other states. If you were you a group of Tesla owners in Minnesota, you might just take matters into your own hands.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 15, 2014

Every so often, an auto executive will say something that raises an eyebrow or two. government, the Tesla Motors network of Supercharger DC fast-charging stations for electric cars was paid for using "money that has come.'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 18, 2016

The state-by-state battles between electric-car maker Tesla Motors and lobbyists for state auto-dealer interests often take unusual twists and turns. But the situation in the state of Virginia may be among the odder episodes in Tesla's eight years of selling cars online directly to buyers.

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Dealers Auto Store Virginia 60

Green Car Reports

APRIL 22, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors opens its 100th Supercharger fast-charging station, the 2016 Chevrolet Cruze sedan is unveiled at the 2014 Beijing Auto Show, and a Cadillac executive says "tree huggers" don''t buy luxury cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2016

For the past few years, Tesla Motors has fought battles with franchised car dealers over its direct-sales model on a state-by-state basis. Feeling threatened by Tesla's company-owned stores, state auto dealer associations have campaigned against the carmaker, in some cases pursuing legislation to outlaw direct sales.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 10, 2009

Big guns in the US auto industry like General Motors and Chrysler may still be reeling from the credit crunch, but upstart electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors has achieved overall corporate profitability in July. A record 109 vehicles were shipped in July with a significant surge in Roadster purchases.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 4, 2014

The guerilla warfare between auto dealers and Tesla Motors continues, with the latest skirmish happening tomorrow in New Jersey. Perhaps war analogies are overstating the case, but certainly Tesla has had to fight in numerous states for the right to sell its cars directly to buyers through the Internet.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Tesla Motors gets a huge amount of media attention, and Fisker Automotive isn't far behind. Other automotive startups, including Coda Automotive and tiny Wheego Electric Cars, are less well known. But can you name the startup automaker that's built 2,500 cars since last September? Hint: It's none of the above.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

State and national auto-dealer groups have been battling Tesla Motors for four years now. The dealers want to stop Tesla from selling its electric cars directly to buyers, and are working to change state laws so Tesla will have to conduct all sales through independently-owned third parties--which is to say, car dealers.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The assets of Fisker Automotive are sold to Chinese auto-parts conglomerate Wanxiang, why Apple may have come closer to acquiring Tesla Motors than it appears, and we drive new diesel crossovers from Audi, Jeep, and Mercedes-Benz. all this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 21, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors plans to build cars in China, New York City proposes an electric-car replacement for horse-drawn carriages, and the Audi TT Offroad plug-in hybrid concept debuts at the 2014 Beijing Auto Show. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2013

Source: California Auto Outlook. in 2012, according to the California Auto Outlook for the second quarter of 2013. California Auto Outlook is sponsored by the California New Card Dealers Association. Tesla Motors took 0.6% Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric vehicle share of the California retail market.

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2013 California Market Hybrid 372

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Today''s green-car news starts with Daimler''s sale of its Tesla Motors stock. We''ve also got a preview of the Scion iM concept car set to debut at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show next month, and details on a recently-enacted California requirement that new buildings be wired for electric-car charging.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 15, 2014

Car production data may cause some eyes to glaze over, but the numbers are closely followed in the auto industry. Electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn''t report its exact sales, nor its precise production, so a cottage industry has sprung up to track its alleged production.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2012

With production of its ground-breaking electric Roadster now complete--despite a recent offering of some 2012 models--Tesla Motors is fully focused on bringing its Model S electric sport sedan to market and delivering the first cars to paying customers.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Have we just seen the first crack in the facade of auto-dealer opposition to Tesla Motors selling cars directly to retail buyers? An opinion piece in auto-industry trade journal Ward''s Auto concludes with the following remarkable sentences: We can keep Tesla busy defending what are basically nuisance suits.

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Dealers Tesla Auto Industry Tesla Motors 167

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2012

There's no denying that the Ford Model T is one of the most important cars of all time. It jump-started the auto industry as we now know it. But Tesla is looking to change the automotive industry, and the new 2012 Model S just might be the most important new car since the Model T.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 1, 2016

Tesla Motors has made an indelible mark on the global auto industry, launching the first volume electric cars with few if any compromises in design, performance, or features. Both the Model S in 2012 and the Model X in 2015 remain the sole such cars with more than 200 miles of range.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2016

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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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2013

In its decade of existence, electric-car startup Tesla has accomplished many things the auto industry didn''t think it could do. But could Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] be as disruptive to the existing industry as were Toyota and Nissan, the two largest Japanese car importers during the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties?

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 14, 2016

As with any auto manufacturer, the vehicle production rate at Tesla Motors is intensely scrutinized by shareholders, fans, financial analysts, and competitors. Almost two years ago, CEO Elon Musk had said that the electric-car maker expected to be operating at a "run rate" of 100,000 cars a year by the end of 2015.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 27, 2013

Tesla Motors has dodged two big bullets fired its way by New York and North Carolina legislatures and auto dealers. Last week, the New York State Senate and Assembly adjourned until January without acting on two bills pushed by state auto dealers that would have made it illegal to register a Tesla store in New York state.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This book answers their questions and provides a roadmap for those who want to better understand the car. In Chapter Six (“Model 3 Performance”), for example, Pressman runs through an easy-to-read run-down of BEV architecture, chargers, batteries, motor and torque, control electronics, regenerative braking, performance and vehicle dynamics.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2013

Texas is tough, and Texas car dealers are no exception. But electric-car startup Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], in the person of its CEO Elon Musk, testified yesterday at a hearing in the Texas legislature on a bill that would allow it to sell its cars directly to Texas buyers.

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Texas Dealers Store Auto 134

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The Tesla Model 3, a mass-priced electric car that's not yet on sale, has had a huge impact on the auto industry. The fact that Silicon Valley carmaker Tesla Motors could get more than 350,000 people to put down $1,000 each for a vehicle they wouldn't receive for 18 months or more was astounding enough.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

Tesla invited Youtubers to check out the vehicle at an event in California earlier this month, but the automaker has yet to officially unveil the vehicle. Now, we learn a few more details via Tesla’s own order page source code (via the Tesla Motors Club forum). FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2016

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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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Auto-dealer groups are fighting Tesla Motors'' direct-sales model in a state-by-state battle, fostering legislation to outlaw the electric-car maker''s company-owned stores, and claiming they''re bad for consumers. However, that doesn''t mean these dealers aren''t also learning from Tesla.

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