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

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

AUGUST 23, 2011

The electric auto industry -- more than the conventional auto industry -- is an extremely volatile and competitive place.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

While the auto industry will start to report December and year-end sales totals today, Tesla Motors issued its year-end delivery and production results yesterday. The Silicon Valley car maker, now completing its ninth year of production, delivered 22,230 electric cars during the fourth quarter of 2016.

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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.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 19, 2013

But on the business network LinkedIn this morning, he emerged to weigh in on the lessons of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] and what the auto industry at large could learn from the electric-car startup. His post on the topic.'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2015

Tesla Motors commands outsize attention within the world of electric cars--and the auto industry in general. Its CEO, Elon Musk, has a huge personal following that eagerly hangs on his every word.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

Deutsche Accumotive—our joint venture with Evonik—is an important resource for the auto industry, to develop, produce and also distribute [these batteries] to third parties. In May, Daimler took a nearly 10% equity stake in US-based Tesla Motors. One of the key technologies for this is the lithium-ion battery.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2018

At this point, a majority of the global auto industry agrees that Tesla and its electric cars have had a remarkable impact in less than 10 years. Founded 15 years ago by two Silicon Valley engineers, Tesla won funding from venture capital, private investment, and government loans that totaled billions of dollars.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2016

The hundreds of thousands of $1,000 deposits placed for the Tesla Model 3 electric cars by potential buyers around the world came as an eye-opening shock to the auto industry. More than 100,000 such deposits were placed during the day that preceded the car's unveiling on the evening of March 31.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

It has become an article of faith among some Tesla fans and owners that the company will inevitably rise to compete with and ultimately defeat the titans of the global auto industry.

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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

JUNE 22, 2015

The rate of sales growth for electric cars may be the greatest unknown in the auto industry as companies prepare to spend billions of dollars on new products. Electric-car startup Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] projects annual sales to increase by 50 percent for years to come.

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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

APRIL 15, 2016

To say that the auto industry has been startled by the volume of deposits on the Tesla Model 3 would be an understatement. The number of potential buyers worldwide who have sent Tesla Motors $1,000 to reserve a place in line to buy the car is now approaching 400,000, said longtime executive Diarmuid O'Connell.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Tesla Motors continues to fight for the ability to sell its electric cars directly to customers in Michigan, home of the rest of the U.S. auto industry. The Silicon Vallery automaker has been banned from doing so for about two years, thanks to subtle changes made to the state's franchise laws to prevent direct sales.

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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. But they're also expensive, following the industry maxim that.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 10, 2016

A post on a small auto-industry blog that accused startup carmaker Tesla Motors of concealing potentially hazardous suspension breakages has blown up into a major media story.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2015

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence--including a few the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to get a car into volume production on the date it first announced. DON'T MISS.

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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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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Auto-industry CEOs virtually never admit that the new product that could make or break the company is "in production hell," but that's now obviously the case for the Tesla Model 3. Deliveries last months totaled just 220 units, far below Tesla CEO Elon Musk's July projection of 1,500 during September.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2015

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has shaken up the auto industry in many ways, and it continues to do so.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2017

It's one of the most fascinating sets of questions in the auto industry. How quickly can Tesla Motors put its Model 3 electric car into production? At a promised starting price of $35,000, the Model 3 is not only Tesla's latest moonshot but the car that. How many cars can it build this year?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2022

Each of these trip logs, and other data “snapshots” captured by the Autopilot system that include images and video, is stripped of its identifying VIN and given a temporary, random ID number when it is uploaded to Tesla, says Green. In many ways, the data genie is already out of the bottle, according to Verdi.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

With just hundreds of cars on the road and with the auto industry still struggling to recover from the global economic crisis, Tesla Motors took a bold move by filing for an initial public offering that could make or break the company’s future (see article). The decision is rumoured to mark the end of the Tesla [.].

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

A decade later, in the 2010s, the battery EV began an astounding reversal of fortune, thanks in no small part to the engineers at ACP, whose electric-drive technology informed the development of the Roadster, the car that launched Tesla Motors. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 24, 2017

Indeed, given Germany's considerable investment in its auto industry, using a German car. The established German luxury brands offer many models that frequently serve in the capacity of official vehicle for an elected official.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Former General Motors product czar Bob Lutz, now retired for a few years, is largely respected within the auto industry. He stopped flying his MIG fighter jet when he turned 80, as the story goes, but he remains a larger-than-life persona in an industry with fewer and fewer of them.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 21, 2009

Describing himself as anti-tax but pro-carbon tax, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk risked the backlash of US motorists by declaring that petrol should probably cost $10 a gallon. With the US auto industry in disarray, Tesla’s focus on premium green cars has emerged as a bright spark.

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Green Cars News

JULY 6, 2009

Professor Herbert Kohler, the Head of E-Drive & Future Mobility at Daimler AG, described the joint venture as an important resource for the auto industry to develop these batteries and also distribute them to third parties. The site is close to Li-Tec Battery GmbH, another joint venture between Daimler and Evonik.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. and Chrysler. Whatever B.C.G.’s April 18, 2009 7:41 am Link I hope Kent B.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

According to their SEC filing, California electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. Read more in the LA Times story: Tesla Motors plans $100-million IPO. From the article: “California electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. Tesla Motors plans $100-million IPO. By Robert Faturechi.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. Range risk concerns obviously are tightly coupled to EV charging availability.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The turning point came when tiny Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up, announced in 2006 that it would produce a speedy electric sports car powered by those same laptop batteries. That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we That tore it for me," says Lutz.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. based Tesla Motors Inc. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. car Because unlike the 100 m.p.g.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. , not enough, about manufacture and product , dig a grave drop all in, say a prayer, move on, they have had there day in the sun!,

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