Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2016

Tesla Motors was the first carmaker to branch out from selling electric cars to offering standalone battery packs for energy storage, but others have followed the company's lead. Mercedes-Benz and Nissan have stated their intentions to enter the energy-storage market, and now BMW is jumping on the bandwagon as well.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 22, 2016

The Nissan Leaf electric car doesn't compete directly with any of the luxury models from Tesla Motors, but Nissan is now targeting Tesla in a different arena. The Japanese carmaker will offer standalone battery packs for home energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

Drawing from a 2012 BMW patent application showing one embodiment of a proposed method to increase the efficiency of an electric motor. The 50 kg electric motor powering the BMW i3 generates a maximum output of 125 kW for a specific power (SP) of 2.5 AC induction motors contain no permanent magnets. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Some solar-energy companies have had a hard time in recent years, but SolarCity may look a little more promising. That isn''t just because Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is the company''s chairman, either--though it can''t hurt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

Austin-based KLD Energy Technologies, Inc., developers of the patented Neue electric motor system technology ( earlier post ), has named Rob Ferber, former science director at Tesla Motors Inc., With Ferber’s addition, KLD Energy Technologies is opening an office in San Jose, California. and Tesla Motors.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2013

Startup electric-car maker Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] said it will repay its $465 million in low-interest loans from the U.S. Department of Energy five years earlier than originally scheduled. Sourcing Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja, Bloomberg reports that Tesla. What a difference a few years makes.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

energy policy took a dramatic turn last month when Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk squared off against the CEO top privately-owned U.S. coal producer Murray Energy. In an interview for the CNBC show "Squawk Box," Robert Murray called Tesla and its electric cars a "fraud." The debate over U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a draft for comment of an $8-billion loan guarantee solicitation for innovative and advanced fossil energy projects and facilities that substantially reduce greenhouse gas and other air pollution. The Department of Energy’s loan programs are supporting a large, diverse $34.4

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Green Car Reports

MAY 6, 2015

Like almost everything else related to the company, its venture into energy storage is generating plenty of publicity for electric-car maker Tesla Motors. But it's worth noting that Tesla.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 29, 2015

Tomorrow night, if its strong hints are accurate, Tesla Motors will announce that it plans to offer lithium-ion battery packs for home and business energy storage. Such storage comes at a cost on top of that of the photovoltaic solar panels that generate the energy.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 2, 2015

As the newest carmaker on the block, it's perhaps not surprising that Tesla Motors likes to do things differently. That includes reaching beyond the automotive sector with its recently-announced plans to sell standalone battery packs for home and commercial energy storage.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Tesla Motors seeks a Country General Manager Chile to help launch the market. You’ll be the ambassador of our brand in the market and will play a pivotal role in shaping our corporate image while accelerating the transition to sustainable energy,” states Tesla. The job calls for someone fluent in English and Spanish.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2012

The NVIDIA Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM) is debuting as part of the Tesla Motors Model S electric luxury sedan. Energy-efficient NVIDIA Tegra module powers infotainment, navigation and digital instrument cluster system in Tesla Motors Model S electric sedan. inch all-digital instrument cluster.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 15, 2013

Since Tesla issued its first-quarter financials last week, its stock has been on a tear. Not only did the company have its first profitable quarter ever, but the many investors who had shorted the stock of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] are now faced with the threat of expensive margin calls.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Daimler is entering the commercial and residential stationary energy storage system (ESS) market with its wholly-owned subsidiary Deutsche ACCUmotive. Daimler’s first industrial-scale lithium-ion unit is already on the grid and is being operated by the partner companies The Mobility House AG and GETEC Energie AG. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

Wrightspeed’s Geared Traction Drive integrates an electric motor, a two-speed gear box and an inverter. The California Energy Commission CEC is awarding Silicon Valley startup Wrightspeed a $5.789-million grant for Advanced Vehicle Technology Manufacturing. Source: Wrightspeed. Click to enlarge. Geared Traction Drive.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2012

You only need to listen to Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk chat for a while to understand that there's more to Tesla than just electric cars--efficiency permeates through the company.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2016

There is now a second company named after inventor Nikola Tesla—and it too plans to build electric vehicles. Unlike Tesla Motors, though, the first products of the newly-revealed Nikola (pronounced Neek-oh-la) Motor Company won't be a sports car or a luxury sedan. DON'T MISS: Recovered Energy And.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched US DRIVE, a cooperative partnership with industry to accelerate the development of clean, advanced, energy-efficient technologies for cars and light trucks and the infrastructure needed to support their widespread use. Batteries/electrochemical energy storage. Lightweight materials.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

It was just a couple of sentences during Wednesday''s 2014 earnings call by Tesla Motors executives. But in it, CEO Elon Musk apparently revealed a new line of business for the company: selling or leasing lithium-ion battery packs for home energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2013

US DRIVE (Driving Research and Innovation for Vehicle efficiency and Energy sustainability), a non-binding and voluntary government-industry partnership focused on advanced automotive and related infrastructure technology research and development (R&D), has released its 2012 Technical Accomplishments Report. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2014

All cars require raw materials and energy to produce, use energy during their time as transport, and require energy to recycle--the components that can be recycled, at least. To mitigate such pollution issues and increase supply chain transparency, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has announced it will source.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2014

The system features one or more AccuDyne AC motoring dynamometers; a high-voltage DC battery simulator; and a DynoLAB PT data acquisition and control system. AccuDyne dynamometers can be used for testing active components such as engines and electric motors as well as passive components such as transmissions, generators and alternators.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 24, 2013

The long-promised announcement from Tesla Motors on expansion of its Supercharger network has been delayed by the company''s billion-dollar fundraising, and this week''s payoff of its entire Department of Energy loan.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 11, 2015

The quarterly earnings calls held by Tesla Motors are always a chance to hear CEO Elon Musk describe the Silicon Valley carmaker's operations and outlooks. But last week's call was a first: The bulk of the questions by financial analysts weren't about the company's electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

As a counterpoint, Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache on 11 August upgraded the rating for Tesla stock from “Hold” to “Buy” in consideration of the company’s possibly reaching the 1.0 Lux Research evaluated Tesla Motors’ Gigafactory plan and its consequences for the EV industry. million cars per year mark by the year 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Brian Sandoval and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday that, indeed, the Gigafactory will be located at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center just outside Reno, NV. Nevada Gov. The press conference held in Carson City not only.'

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Autobidder Offtake Agreement is with Tesla Motors Australia Pty Ltd. The Bouldercombe Battery Project is set to be one of the first standalone large-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems in Queensland.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA) has given Tesla Motors a $34.735 million tax break from sales and use taxes on $415-million worth of new manufacturing equipment for its Fremont factory.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Mercedes-Benz will present a battery-powered electric concept variant of the B-Class at the Paris Motor Show, reportedly developed in partnership with Tesla Motors. Earlier post.) Market launch is planned for 2014.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2014

In an effort to reduce further the already low risk of a Model S battery fire resulting from impact with road debris, Tesla Motors is outfitting new Model S cars (as of 6 March) with an underbody triple shield system consisting first of an aluminum bar; then a titanium shield; and finally a shallow angle solid aluminum extrusion.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2017

In addition, he will discuss the production of cells for energy products manufactured at the Gigafactory including the Powerwall and Powerpack. Kelty is the Senior Director of Battery Technology at Tesla Motors in Palo Alto, California.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. During Tesla’s Q4 earnings call in February, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had noted that because Panasonic is Tesla’s primary partner on battery production, the “default assumption” was that Panasonic would continue to partner with Tesla in the Gigafactory. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 14, 2022

Australian renewable energy Edify Energy has formally announced that its high-profile 150MW / 300MWh battery storage system has completed its financing. The project will be using Tesla Megapack batteries, and it will be located in New South Wales (NSW). The largest of its kind approved in the world.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Department of Energy''s $25 billion low-interest loan program may be about to start awarding new loans. The DoE''s Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) program endured intense political criticism for funding not only electric-car maker Tesla Motors but also Fisker Automotive, on which it ultimately lost $139.'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2016

The Nikkei Asian Review reported that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said that the company has trimmed its China EV sales target for this year to 5,000 units, down from last year’s target of 10,000. Tesla has reported that it had sold 3,025 cars in China through the first nine months of 2015.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 23, 2013

Most advocates and industry analysts expect lithium-ion batteries to dominate electric-car energy storage for the rest of this decade. But is Silicon Valley startup carmaker Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] planning to add a new type of battery to increase the range of its electric cars?

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