National Green Transportation

MAY 4, 2016

On Wednesday, Tesla Motors released their Q1 2016 financial results. The big news was not the $282 million GAAP loss for the quarter, nor that the Tesla Model X production is now humming along. Instead the big news.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 10, 2016

When Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said two years ago that the electric-car maker planned to be building half a million cars a year by the end of 2020, it seemed an ambitious stretch goal. When he said on last week's quarterly earnings call that the company was pulling that goal two years ahead to 2018, you can almost hear the gasps.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2016

With its ambitious plan to build 500,000 electric cars per year beginning in 2018, it would seem to make sense that Tesla Motors would make China a priority. But Tesla has struggled in China since it launched the Model S there.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 2, 2017

A minimum of six new models are expected in that time period, all promising ranges of 200 miles or more—which until a few months ago had been the exclusive province of Tesla Motors. The list includes two affordable 200-mile electric cars: the second-generation Nissan.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 30, 2016

The established German luxury carmakers are now taking Tesla Motors quite seriously, and are preparing a crop of electric cars to compete directly with its Model S and Model X. In 2018, Audi will launch an all-electric SUV based on the e-tron quattro concept unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show last year.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2015

Over the next few years, the German luxury establishment--including Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche--is expected to launch a barrage of electric car models in a belated attempt to take on startup Tesla Motors. For some time, it's been understood that one of those models will be an all-electric SUV from Audi.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It's been clear for a couple of years now that the German luxury makers feel they need competitive responses to the startling emergence of electric-car maker Tesla Motors. One by one, the concept vehicles--and production plans--have appeared, first the Audi e-Tron Quattro Concept and most recently the Porsche Mission E.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 14, 2015

The long-awaited, multiply-delayed Tesla Model X all-electric SUV should finally go into volume production next year, presumably giving Tesla Motors a major sales boost. Heading into 2016, only a handful of new vehicles are likely to move the needle much. DON'T MISS: GM Shows Chevy Bolt EV Electric-Car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

(VWoA) has appointed Matthew Renna as Vice President, Volkswagen North American Region (NAR)-G4, effective 16 April 2018. Renna most recently served as program manager for Model S and Model X at Tesla Motors.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Perhaps no German prestige carmaker was more rattled than Porsche by the sudden appearance of electric-car startup Tesla Motors.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Tesla Motors is facing a huge increase its production output in order to meet the ambitious goals set by CEO Elon Musk. He says he expects the company produce 500,000 electric cars per year by 2018.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2016

Tesla Motors projects sales of 80,000 to 90,000 electric cars in 2016, and now believes it will produce 500,000 cars per year by 2018, rather than 2020. Those two goals were revealed during Tesla's first-quarter earnings call last Wednesday, and would take the company a long way from the 50,000 cars it delivered in 2015.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

With a slew of 200-mile electric cars planned for 2018 and later, the question of how their drivers will be able to make long-distance trips is coming to the fore in a big way. Silicon Valley electric-car maker Tesla Motors laid out the template with its Supercharger network, which now numbers 327 sites in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 13, 2016

With a restyled Model S released yesterday and more than 300,000 reservations globally for its $35,000 Model 3 coming in 2018, Tesla Motors has had a busy, busy month. Almost overlooked in all the news about those two electric cars was another update to another Tesla product.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2019

Tesla CEO Elon Musk prefaced his introduction of the company’s more affordable upcoming electric SUV, the Model Y, Thursday night, by noting how hard achieving at-scale mass production of Model X has been—and what a difficult year 2018 had been for him and Tesla.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2018

So we've finally had the chance to spend time with a 2018 Tesla Model 3, courtesy of a generous and devoted Green Car Reports reader. We'll have our first-drive report and a full review of the car within a day or two—but that's not what this article is about.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Tesla’s quarterly earnings call today was shaping up to be, at long last, an earnings call. Tesla reported a net income of $312 million for the third quarter of 2018. The all-electric vehicle maker made money.

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Teslarati

MARCH 31, 2022

Tesla was recently subpoenaed by the SEC for information on CEO Elon Musk’s stock sale poll last year and related to its 2018 settlement with the SEC. Tesla had “Faraday” as a backup name before buying “Tesla Motors” trademark for $75k.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

On Thursday, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors, confirmed what had been widely leaked the day before: that Nevada and Tesla had reached an agreement—subject to legislative review and approval—that will result in the state being the site for the Tesla Gigafactory.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 6, 2017

Tesla says it will put its mass-priced Model 3 electric car into production by July, and ramp up production extremely quickly from there. CEO Elon Musk hopes to be building 5,000 cars each week by the end of the year; he previously set a goal of producing 500,000 cars across all model lines by the end of 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year. By 2022, not even California will meet the 10% ZEV requirement.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2016

Automakers making the commitment are Audi; BMW; FCA US LLC; Ford; General Motors; Honda; Hyundai; Jaguar Land Rover; Kia; Maserati; Mazda; Mercedes-Benz; Mitsubishi Motors; Nissan; Porsche; Subaru; Tesla Motors; Toyota; Volkswagen; and Volvo Car USA.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he wants his company to be building 500,000 electric cars a year by 2018. Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, previously produced that many cars when it was a joint operation of General Motors and Toyota. DON'T MISS.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 5, 2016

Tesla has officially opened its lithium-ion battery cell "gigafactory," but the company still has substantial work to do. It must ramp up cell production in order to help meet CEO Elon Musk's goal of producing 500,000 electric cars per year by 2018—and use renewable-energy sources to do it.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 25, 2016

With the launch of the Chevy Bolt EV less than a year away, and 400,000 reservations for Tesla Model 3 cars to be delivered sometime in 2018 or later, clearly 200 miles is the new benchmark for range below $40,000. But it turns out the updated 2016 Tesla.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 19, 2015

While the new set of regulations won't take effect until 2018, carmakers have already requested changes that could make the rules more lenient or easier to comply.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

During its quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Mobileye announced that its work with Tesla will not extend beyond EyeQ3. Mobileye will continue to work with Tesla on improving the performance of EyeQ3 in use in Tesla cars. A new Mobileye system—the EyeQ4—comes out in 2018.

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

Quality control (QC) service requests, when combined with normal service load, mean that Tesla service centers’ availability is often impaired. Tesla Motors Club forum even has a thread dedicated for service center wait times.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Tesla Motors, Inc. a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. Stanford University (research partner and advisory board). University of California, San Diego. University of Texas at Austin. University of Washington. IBM (advisory board).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office. Yet that make-or-break sedan ultimately made Tesla the world leader in EVs, and one of its most-valued companies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The production version of Audi’s battery electric e-tron quattro SUV ( earlier post ), due out in 2018, is an important vehicle for the brand, and especially for Audi of America, which is driving many of the requirements for the C-segment electric SUV. plug-in hybrid or full electric—models by 2025. Earlier post. ).

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