CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Panasonic has unveiled a new prototype battery designed for Tesla, Reuters reported today. The new battery will help Tesla lower its production costs and will strengthen the ties between the two companies. Kazuo Tadanobu, head of Panasonic’s energy business, showed the battery during a media roundtable.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This involves the seamless blending of renewable energy, such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power, into the overall energy infrastructure to meet the growing demand for clean and sustainable energy. This can involve a combination of energy storage, flexible demand, and backup power sources.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I don’t think I have ever been more curious about a Tesla investor day as the one coming up March 1st. There is so much speculation on what we are going to see, and I usually just read what others try to predict and then grab my popcorn and enjoy the live event, but this time […]

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 3, 2022

Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers rely heavily on a few different minerals. One of them, lithium, is largely mined, refined, and processed by China, though lithium deposits can be found worldwide. Still, China’s jump on the raw materials game for EV minerals will make it hard for other countries to compete at such a […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 28, 2021

A major Tesla milestone was announced yesterday — the all-electric automaker just surpassed over $1 billion in GAAP net income. During Tesla’s Q2 earnings conference call, CEO Elon Musk said, “If you look at history, often, the seeds of defeat are sown on the day of victory. […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Tesla is now big enough that growth of 50% per year has […]. When you are very small, growth percentages can be astronomical. Going from one in your first year to three in the next year to 30 gives growth of 200% and 900%. But after these first few years, 50% growth is considered crazy high.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 10, 2021

Nikkei Asia has published an interesting read on Tesla’s patent numbers, which now number in the hundreds and cover a wide variety of topics. It seems like Tesla has a new patent for something every other day.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The City of Lathrop is leasing 9 acres of land to Tesla for $1 to support Tesla’s workforce of 1,500 workers, according to a report in the Manteca/Ripon Bulletin. The city council voted unanimously last week to lease the 9 acres of land that the city owned.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 4, 2021

There have been more details released about the recent Tesla Model S Plaid fire, including who owned the vehicle. Although I believe we should wait on the results of the investigation, there are some questions that a few Tesla owners and shareholders have taken to Twitter […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 22, 2021

The “EV Stock Channel” has published a video titled “European battery factory race (VW & Tesla).” Tesla will manufacture its new 4680 battery cells at Gigafactory in Berlin with the goal of getting to around […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 22, 2021

BHP announced that it and Tesla have announced a nickel supply agreement and that it will supply Tesla with nickel from its Nickel West asset in Western Australia. The company stated that this is one of the most sustainable and lowest carbon emission nickel producers in the world.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 12, 2021

by Charles Morris Everyone loves a good mystery, especially when it has to do with Tesla and a potential battery breakthrough. In regards to Tesla’s rumored acquisition of a Canadian battery startup, we know just enough to spin an intriguing story (at least we hope you, dear readers, will find it so). […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 10, 2021

The latest Impact Report from Tesla says the company is making sustainability a central part of all its business operations.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2021

As always, we are putting together a thorough livestream video for the second quarter (Q2) Tesla shareholder call later today. You can find it embedded YouTube video below (or click here) and set a reminder to watch it at 5pm ET/2pm PT/11pm CET later today when it goes live. Aside from including the audio on […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 4, 2023

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is reporting that Tesla and Panasonic are expected to receive about $1.8 That will put the two companies far ahead of the estimated $480 million that General Motors and LG Energy Solution are expected to receive. billion in Inflation Reduction Act production tax credits this year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 15, 2021

It seems that battery makers are hoping that Tesla will choose them to produce its 4680 tabless battery cells. The Korea Herald has reported that Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution have completed the development of samples of the 4680 battery cells. This is an effort to win Tesla’s heart, or at least win a […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 22, 2021

LG Energy Solutions is feeling the “Tesla effect” thanks to Tesla’s success with its made-in-China Model Y sales. The Tesla Model Y enabled LG Energy Solutions to dethrone CATL as the world’s top battery vendor.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tesla is planning to expand the Gigafactory Texas general assembly area by 500,000 square feet, as revealed in a permit filed by the automaker with the city of Austin, Texas. Public records from the Austin Build + Connect (ABC) website show that Tesla has applied for an expansion of Giga Texas by 500,000 sq. ft. […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 14, 2022

Panasonic is likely to invest up to $4 billion into a new factory for Tesla batteries in Kansas. That goes for Tesla as well as […]. It’s all about the batteries. While there are other supply chain challenges lately, the number one barrier to faster electric vehicle sales growth year after year is lack of batteries.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Chairperson of Tesla recently spoke at a mining conference urging Australians to get involved higher up the value chain with the minerals we are digging out of the […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 11, 2021

Based on the analysis I did of ARK Invest’s Tesla bull and bear cases, here and here, I decided to create my own financial model for Tesla growth. Tesla has a lot of moving parts, and Elon has famously said Tesla is made up of more than a dozen startups. In true agile fashion, I […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 13, 2021

Yesterday, I got some good feedback on my post about releasing a Tesla Financial Model on GitHub*. It occurred to me an analysis of my Tesla financial model would be useful. I can’t expect everyone to download it. I was able to work and create a simple macro that copied and pasted the Monte Carlo […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Tesla continues to rapidly expand throughout the world, and despite two new gigafactories having opened earlier this year (in Germany and Texas), the automaker’s already looking at where to build next.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Tesla has dropped out of a subsidy program for battery factories in Germany but there may be more to the story.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 1, 2021

Hyundai and LG are planning a new battery factory in Indonesia while Tesla has pushed back the start of production for the Semi and RIvian is thinking about a factory in the UK.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The German government is preparing to provide Tesla with 1.14 billion euros to construct a battery factory in Grunheide.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As always, CleanTechnica will be streaming the quarterly Tesla conference call live later today with all the bells and whistles you have come to expect from our previous livestreams. Here is the link to our coming livestream. It is also embedded below. Just make sure to click that “Set reminder” button, and if you haven’t […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 16, 2022

Tesla recently hired a geologist, which many be a step in the direction of lithium and critical materials mining. There’s no official announcement that Tesla will actually do its own mining, and there could be other reasons that it’s hiring geologists.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 19, 2023

Tesla continued to rake in the cash in the second quarter of 2023, on the back of record global deliveries. Tesla […] The company brought in nearly $25 billion in revenue in the second quarter (Q2), which was 47% more than in Q2 2022. But let’s look a little more closely at these and other numbers.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 11, 2022

As the cost of important minerals for electric vehicle battery production increases, some Tesla investors are wondering if they should be worried. Some think that an upcoming supply crunch could make EV batteries skyrocket, and maybe even cause buyers to switch back to internal combustion engine vehicles instead.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 13, 2022

There is no shortage of sensationalized media coverage when it comes to Tesla and its intrepid leader, Elon Musk. In recent news, Tesla has delivered yet another record quarter, continuing its meteoric rise as the fastest growing complex manufacturer in history.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

In this episode of CleanTech Talk, RK Equity cofounder Howard Klein talked with me about what’s new in the EV battery market, current & future supply chain concerns, Tesla’s battery progress, and more.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Tesla’s Giga Texas continues to grow and flourish, and yesterday, Jeff Roberts, one of the drone pilots who is part of the “Quad Squad” tracking progress at Giga Texas, was able to film large semi trucks delivering cathodes directly into the factory.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 3, 2021

Ryan Melsert, formerly Tesla Staff Chemical Engineer and now Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at American Battery Metals Corporations (ABML), recently gave an interview on the show Compound Interests on YouTube. Although the video includes a lot more than just Ryan’s experience at Tesla, one interesting thing he shared is […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Musk has described the batteries coming out of these facilities “like bullets”. Indeed, and they are aiming at the competition. And we haven’t even discussed the performance of this 4680 battery!

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 14, 2021

Giga Shanghai is now producing the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. But not all the parts that Tesla likes to produce itself are yet produced in Shanghai. Idra Group mentioned in a press release that there are now two giga presses in production. We know of two at work in Fremont. We also know […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2021

These are some key areas that could be part of the Tesla Q2 earnings call today.

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