Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Tesla Motors has now completed upgrades to its Fremont, California, plant ahead of an expected production increase. The electric car-maker shut down the factory for two weeks in late summer to complete modifications to handle the addition of the all-wheel drive Dual Motor Model S.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 3, 2017

As he had promised he would late one evening last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has tweeted out some updates on the upcoming Model 3. He expects first production Model 3 electric car, with serial number 001 ("SN1"), to be completed this Friday, July 7.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Tesla Motors unveiled its current prototype of the Model X electric crossover Tuesday night at its Los Angeles Design Studio. The six-seater, featuring “Falcon Wing” rear doors, will come in rear-wheel drive, dual motor all-wheel drive, and performance dual motor all-wheel drive options, with a choice of a 60 kWh or 85 kWh pack.

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MAY 2, 2009

ClipperCreek will supply Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) to support the Tesla Motors Roadster. The TS-70 is the industry’s first product to market that incorporates the SAE-J1772 standard for vehicle-to-EVSE communications ( earlier post ), while remaining backward compatible with the previous standards.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] is gearing up for increased production over the next few years with the aid of healthy tax breaks from its home state of California. million on the purchase of $415 million of new manufacturing equipment, says SFGate--and would allow Tesla to expand annual production by 35,000.'

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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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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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Green Car Reports

JULY 11, 2013

All is still well at Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], it seems, with CEO Elon Musk announcing the company is beating its self-imposed production targets. As Bloomberg reports, Tesla is ahead of its 400-per-week production goal, by a margin Musk describes as "not trivial".

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APRIL 2, 2013

Tesla Motors, in partnership with Wells Fargo and US Bank, has created an automotive financing product that combines elements of ownership and leasing for Model S customers. driving distances, etc.). Should the consumer decide to hang on to the car after the 3 years, he or she would continue to make the monthly payments.

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JANUARY 4, 2020

Tesla Motors reported record production in Q4 of approximately 112,000 vehicles. In 2019, Tesla delivered approximately 367,500 vehicles, 50% more than the previous year and in line with its full-year guidance. Tesla Q4 production and deliveries. Production (vehicles). Deliveries (vehicles).

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JUNE 11, 2015

Sumitomo Chemical will more than double its production capacity for lithium-ion secondary battery separators, marketed under the PERVIO brand name. The production at its Ohe Works in Niihama, Japan will be raised to approximately 1.3 Through Panasonic, the cells with PERVIO separators are used in Tesla Motors’ Model S.

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MAY 3, 2013

In response to critiques of the first version of its financing program introduced early in April ( earlier post ), Tesla Motors has raised the Model S resale value guarantee to be the highest of any premium sedan brand made in volume (excludes rare, low volume or limited edition vehicles).

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JULY 13, 2009

Daimler AG has sold 40% of its equity interest in Tesla Motors to its new major shareholder Aabar Investments PJSC (Aabar), of Abu Dhabi, in their first joint strategic project. In May, Daimler AG acquired an equity interest of just under 10% in Tesla Motors Inc. for about $50 million (€36 million). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The biggest question facing tiny Tesla Motors right now is whether it can ramp up production of its Model S all-electric sport sedan and deliver enough of them to paying customers that it can generate the income it needs to keep going.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 9, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Tesla Motors delivers the first right-hand drive Model S electric cars to U.K. customers, some insight into 2014 BMW i3 buyers, and Toyota announces a start date for fuel-cell production. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Look back on our biggest stories from last week with the Week in Reverse.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Tesla Motors reported total GAAP revenue of $937 million in Q3 2015, up 10% from the prior year. Tesla delivered 11,603 vehicles in Q3, slightly above its earlier guidance. Model S production and deliveries are on track to achieve our initial Q4 plan. Tesla forecasts a decline in non-GAAP Automotive gross margin from Q3.

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National Green Transportation

MAY 4, 2016

On Wednesday, Tesla Motors released their Q1 2016 financial results. The big news was not the $282 million GAAP loss for the quarter, nor that the Tesla Model X production is now humming along. Instead the big news.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2016

After several years of dismissing the Silicon Valley carmaker, established German luxury carmakers now seem to be taking Tesla Motors seriously. Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche are each planning long-range electric cars aimed at combating the American upstart.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Tesla Motors is often frustratingly opaque about the company's progress in getting its 2012 Tesla Model S electric sport sedan up to mass production. According to one of those tweets yesterday, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] built its 1,000th.

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JUNE 23, 2009

billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6 and $465 million to Tesla Motors. The Department plans to make additional loans under this program over the next several months to large and small auto manufacturers and parts suppliers up and down the production chain. Ford Motor Company will receive $5.9

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AUGUST 5, 2011

Toyota and Tesla Motors, Inc. confirmed that their jointly-developed RAV4 electric vehicle ( earlier post ) will be built at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc. Tesla will build the electric powertrains at its production facility in Palo Alto, California and then ship them to TMMC for final assembly into the vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2017

The battery-powered 1,050-horsepower vehicle is intended to rival (or perhaps best) anything Tesla Motors may have up its sleeve. As an upright crossover, it appears to be designed to rival the Tesla Model X—and perhaps the future.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 15, 2023

All the Tesla jobs in Chile are in Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The company seeks a Country General Manager to help launch its vehicles—and probably its other products—in the local car market. Tesla Motors seeks a Country General Manager Chile to help launch the market.

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MARCH 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) finalized a nearly $50 million loan to The Vehicle Production Group LLC; the loan will support the development of the six-passenger MV-1, a purpose-built wheelchair accessible vehicle that will run on compressed natural gas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2015

As it seeks to expand its electric-car production, Tesla Motors may also be attempting to bring more of that process in-house. Carmakers are backed by a complex chain of suppliers, and a recent move by Tesla will give it oversight over another link in that chain.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2015

The quarterly financial results issued by electric-car maker Tesla Motors, plus the ensuing conference call with CEO Elon Musk, are eagerly followed by fans and analysts alike.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2015

Tesla Motors hasn't been able to meet any initial production deadlines so far, which raises continuing questions about the timeliness of its planned 200-mile Model 3 electric car. But in disputing what turned out to be an erroneous report of a delay, Tesla yesterday confirmed that the car is on track for its planned 2017 launch.

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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 Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Tesla Motors confirmed today that it expected to start production of its crucial Model 3 electric car in July, and claims that it will boost production to 5,000 cars a week by the end of this year. The news was contained in Tesla's latest letter to its shareholders, and it started with the third sentence.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Tesla Motors reported Q1 vehicle deliveries of more than 4,750 Model S units—exceeding the 4,500-unit Q1 target provided in the mid-February shareholder letter. As a result, Tesla is amending its Q1 guidance to full profitability, both GAAP and non-GAAP. —Elon Musk, Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2012

Tesla Motors said today it would cut the third-quarter production target for its 2012 Model S all-electric sport sedan, according to a stock analyst who follows the company.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced an offer of a nearly $50 million conditional loan commitment to The Vehicle Production Group LLC (VPG). Vehicle Production Group estimates that at full capacity, the project will produce approximately 22,650 vehicles per year. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 3, 2018

Renna most recently served as program manager for Model S and Model X at Tesla Motors. The NAR structure includes an organizational matrix of four product lines that work in cross functional collaboration with the functional departments in the area of vehicle development. —Hinrich J.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 17, 2012

As far as many people are concerned, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has done the hard bit already. Put it into production. However, even Tesla CEO Elon Musk himself is admitting the next six. They've started a company from scratch. Built and sold a sports car. Developed a new model. Started selling it to an adoring crowd.

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JUNE 12, 2014

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced in a blog post that the company is opening up access to its patents; Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use the company’s technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

We have enormous respect for Tesla Motors, for their engineering prowess, their manufacturing abilities, and their forward thinking, risk-tolerant leadership. We were the first outside company in what I call the Tesla “ecosystem,” and we’ve had an opportunity to observe the company for quite some time.

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