CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Before you start thinking I’m writing this piece to make Tesla short sellers happy, let me give you some background to the story. We are a group of three Tesla lovers — in fact, EV aficionados in general. In 2017, we bought a second-hand Tesla Model […]. I mean, literally fell down, damaging the steering gear.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Panasonic Corporation has invested $30 million in Tesla Motors. The investment was made through the purchase of Tesla common stock in a private placement at a price of $21.15 We are proud to strengthen our relationship with Tesla Motors.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The legislative battle that pits Ohio car dealers against Tesla Motors and its company-owned stores continues. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the car dealers are once again pushing legislation that would keep Tesla from selling cars in the Buckeye State.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

Tesla reached profitability in the first quarter of 2013 for the first time in its ten year history. According to the shareholder letter, the company exceeded its targets for deliveries; significantly expanded gross margin; and improved execution throughout the company.

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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Tesla's batteries and motors can certainly fail, but it doesn't likely happen as often as some people think.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2013

As promised, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk demonstrated a battery swap option for the Model S. The scenario, said Musk, is that each Tesla Supercharging station (“Tesla station”) would have a swap option.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 7, 2014

Many among the Detroit auto media were skeptical of Tesla Motors for years, correctly noting just how hard it is to start a car company and build a genuinely appealing product--electric car or not.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 8, 2022

“The drive unit was put on a dyno and got to 600 BHP, then it overheated the dyno!” ” Well, then it’s probably powerful enough. Kit Lacey of eDub Services in the UK is proud of his work converting an iconic 1977 Porsche 911. Some will call it sacrilege, but hey, the customer sold the original […].

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2014

Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years. It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 3, 2013

The fans have spoken: Over 100,000 people have now signed a White House petition asking for Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] to be allowed to sell its cars directly in all fifty states. Started by one Tesla supporter on June 5, support from across the electric car world piled in with signatures increasing faster and faster over the past week.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Tesla Motors is interested in licensing its battery and other EV technologies to Toyota Motor Corp. Tesla is also interested in joining hands with Toyota in the area of customer service, Musk said, adding that Tesla's cars can be serviced at Toyota facilities.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2013

On June 5, a Tesla Motors fan mounted what seemed like another quixotic effort to support Tesla in selling its electric cars directly to buyers. The petition at WhiteHouse.gov that he or she launched required 100,000 people to sign it within a month, by Friday, July 5.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2013

As Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] faces the obstacle of obstreperous dealer organizations, rides the wave of its strong production figures, and quietly welcomes recent evidence that its batteries in the Roadster are lasting longer than predicted, another development: the electric car company has purchased a 35-acre tract adjacent to its Fremont, CA.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It's never dull over at Tesla Motors, but tomorrow is a particularly important day. That's because after the stock market closes, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will give the first hints about whether it could genuinely become a profitable independent carmaker. At 5:30 pm.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 25, 2016

Last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk issued an updated version of the "master plan" whose first edition he wrote way back in 2006. As with virtually all things Tesla, the plan has generated quite a.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Ah, Tesla Motors, source of hope, dreams, visions, contempt, dismissal, hilarity, frustration, and so much more. The Silicon Valley startup automaker, now in its ninth year of making electric cars, has built close to 150,000 expensive battery-powered luxury vehicles and defied critics numerous times.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 3, 2013

It''s been a great few months for Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA]. But is Tesla''s greatest potential in its Supercharger fast-charging network, rather.' The company''s flagship product attracted a near best-ever rating from Consumer Reports to add to its trophy cabinet.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Tesla Motors announced its fourth-quarter and full-year results late yesterday, and offered some good news to the company's shareholders. That would be the projection that Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will operate at a profit in the current quarter, which ends March 31. "We

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2009

Electric-vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors said it achieved overall corporate profitability in July with approximately $1 million of earnings on revenue of $20 million. Profitability arose primarily from improved gross margin on the Roadster 2, the second iteration of Tesla’s award-winning sports car, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC) will hold its upcoming Electric Drive Vehicle First Responder Safety Training at the Tesla Motors headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Scheduled for 6-7 Dec.,

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Three workers have suffered burns in an accident at the Fremont, California assembly plant, where Tesla Motors builds its Model S electric car. According to the company, a low-pressure aluminum casting press failed on Wednesday afternoon, spilling hot metal onto the workers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors finalized a supply agreement for automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells. The agreement supplies Tesla with Panasonic’s lithium-ion battery cells to build more than 80,000 vehicles over the next four years.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Discussions of Tesla Motors sometimes seem couched in the terms of a religious tale: Tesla as David vs General Motors in the Goliath role. One company is the plucky Silicon Valley electric-car startup that''s never built a vehicle with a gasoline engine. The other is the largest U.S.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2012

For Tesla CEO Elon Musk, that includes regular tweets about the company. Yesterday, he tweeted that Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] was in the black. "Am Am happy to report that Tesla was narrowly cash flow positive last week. Some of the biggest news of the year has been broken on social networking site, Twitter.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Silicon Valley electric-car maker Tesla Motors is reportedly in talks with the German government to establish a lithium-ion battery plant in that country, which could kickstart slow sales of its Model S and future vehicles. And as is usual in cases of new industrial facilities, Tesla will.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 3, 2015

Tesla Motors started deliveries of its all-electric Roadster more than six years ago. Green Elon Musk New car sales Tesla Motors plug-in cars sales' Today, the company announced that it would provide quarterly sales numbers just after each three-month. Green Elon Musk New car sales Tesla Motors plug-in cars sales'

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 13, 2015

It had to come, and it did: Tesla Motors is selling more stock to bolster its cash position as it prepares to launch its second high-volume electric car.

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Teslarati

MARCH 17, 2024

The new upgraded Tesla Model 3 Performance was sighted in San Francisco by Tesla Motors Club (TMC) member Watts_Up , who observed that the vehicle in question was fitted with 19″ tires. Credit: Watts_Up/Tesla Motors Club The release of the upgraded Tesla Model 3 Performance seems to be at hand.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2024

It appears that upgraded Tesla Model 3 deliveries have started. The revamped all-electric sedan’s delivery was reported in the Tesla Motors Club (TMC) forum , with a member who lived in California sharing a photo of a blue upgraded Tesla Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor All Wheel Drive (AWD) that he just picked up.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 8, 2013

Within the next hour, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will release its first-quarter financial results. CEO Elon Musk has also said that Tesla is targeting a 25-percent gross margin on sales by the end of the.'

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Tesla Motors released its 2011 financial results today and held a conference call this evening for financial analysts to question officials. Perhaps the most significant is Musk's claim that Tesla won't need to raise any more capital. Tesla does not need to ever raise another.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

It’s been a breakthrough year for Tesla Motors. While many electric car start-ups have fallen by the wayside during the year, Tesla finally posted profits during the first quarter of 2013 (see article): its first profits after 10 years in business. Tesla Motors Green Hero'

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National Green Transportation

MARCH 11, 2014

On Tuesday, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC) approved a new rule requiring that all new-car dealers have a franchise agreement in order to sell cars in New Jersey. This effectively blocks Tesla Motors, who directly.'

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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 Reports

AUGUST 17, 2012

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, has quite a lot on his mind these days. Among his tasks: making sure production of the 2012 Tesla Model S electric sport sedan ramps up quickly enough, while maintaining superb quality, to let Tesla build 5,000 units before the end of the year.

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National Green Transportation

MARCH 31, 2013

All eyes are on Tesla Motors and whether the companies sales live up to expectation. Tesla has made a big bet they can sell 20,000 electric luxury cars a year when the likes of Nissan and General Motors.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] thinks of itself as more Silicon Valley than Detroit, but its latest high-profile hire is a bit of both. Tesla announced that it is hiring former Apple vice president Doug Field as its new vice president of vehicle programs.

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