Tesla Motors stock has risen over 400% in the last six months, and by market capitalization the company is rivaling the smaller automakers, which raises the question: Why? The price for Tesla Motors stock (TSLA) briefly touched the $172 level today before a selloff beginning at 2pm Eastern Time erased…
Radioactive water leaks at TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear power plant are not as bad as the press is reporting, said TEPCO on Sunday. Over the weekend TEPCO discovered a leak of radioactive water, at a lethal radiation level, from a storage tank, over which TEPCO says news reports blew the danger…
Normally on The Long Tail Pipe our focus is on education about the long ranging effects of the transportation system. Get it? Long Tail Pipe? Anyway, there’s one company we cover a lot, Tesla Motors, where the story really is becoming the stock price and when/if TSLA shares will ever…
It’s not often that we get a direct clear example of the externalities of oil consumption. An “externality” is when someone, say a big oil company like Exxon, makes other people pay some of the costs associated with their business. Most of the externalities related to the Oil business are…
DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach said it wasn’t a good idea to short-sell TSLA even though the gains look irrationally excessive. On Friday, shares of Tesla Motors (TSLA) had a last minute surge to close at $169/share, nearly breaking through the $170/share level. The stock has more than quadrupled in value…
Yesterday I reported on the Bonneville land speed racing last week, saying that Lightning Motorcycles had probably set a new record. I’ve now talked with Richard Hatfield, and learned that they did set an official AMA and FIM land speed record for electric motorcycles, however they didn’t get to beat…
KillaCycle Racing wasn’t the only electric motorcycle team at Bonneville this week. Lightning Motorcycles was there too, but they didn’t post as much on Facebook and I haven’t had a chance to talk with them. On Aug 26 they posted: “We’re super excited to say that today, on the legendary…
It’s land speed racing time at the Bonneville Salt Flats and I see from Facebook that both Lightning Motorcycles and KillaCycle racing were there. In this post I’ll cover what KillaCycle posted on Facebook. The big takeaway is that they made it into the 201+ miles/hr club, it’s not clear…
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) could diversify its supply chain by signing up a new battery cell maker. Tesla Motors is talking with Samsung SDI to supply battery cells, according to a report in the Korean Herald. This would diversify a critical component in Tesla’s supply chain, and potentially give the company a much-needed boost…
The US Energy Department announced on Thursday seventeen new projects, for $16 million total investment, to capture energy from waves, tides and currents. The goal is to increase America’s renewable energy portfolio, increase the power production and reliability of wave and tidal devices, and help gather valuable data on how…
How serious is Toyota about the Gen2 Toyota RAV4 EV? It’s built using the previous generation RAV4 car, and is being built in miniscule quantities. Hence, it looks like Toyota is doing the RAV4 EV exercise in order to have a Compliance Car to satisfy ZEV Mandate requirements. But, we…
Tesla Motors’ (TSLA) ever-increasing stock price is either a hype bubble or a serious prediction by the stock market of Tesla’s future as a major car maker ranking with the likes of Daimler or BMW. Tesla Motors’ stock price (TSLA) continues to rise, where last week it was nearing $160…
It probably doesn’t matter to most people what their car weighs. Some people geek out on things like this, and for example claim that the Tesla Model S is really heavy because it weighs about 5,000 lbs. And when you’re told a number like that, it sounds heavy, but then…
Selling people on a different kind of car is more than selling them a car. It’s about selling them on a different way of driving, or rather a different propulsion system. Tesla “Recharge” from Über Content on Vimeo.
Tesla Motors’ stock (TSLA) is caught in a wave of hype, leaving Tesla CEO Elon Musk grasping for the best way to describe the company’s sky high valuation. The last time we reported on Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock price, last April, it had just broken above $40 a share thanks to good news…
