Teslarati

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On October 4, 2021, @jpr007 , a Tesla enthusiast on Twitter, showed documentation that Tesla had officially paid off its entire $1.4 The loan was announced in December 2019, and appeared to have no balance as of Tesla’s Q2 2021 financial documentation. Tesla paid the loan back nine years early.

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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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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On July 26, in a rare glimpse into progress on his company's purported game-changer battery, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in true Muskian form, raising hopes and tempering expectations in one cryptic swoop : We have successfully validated performance and lifetime of our 4680 cells produced at our Kato facility in California.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, until mainstream public confidence reaches the point where the perceived combination of risks of a battery electric vehicle purchase (range, affordability, reliability and behavioral changes) match that of an ICE vehicle, then EV purchases are going to be the exception rather than the norm. How much range is enough?

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