Tesla Motors is confirming previous plans for the Gen3 affordably priced mass market electric car, and has given us the official name: Model III (or perhaps Model 3). Hopefully everyone will stop saying “Model E” and now get on to debating whether the correct name is Model III or Model…
Tesla Motors is angry this week at Hyundai making bogus political allegations about Tesla’s Supercharger network, and at the U.S. White House for passing the buck in dealing with the battle over Tesla’s direct car-sales model. On the one hand Hyundai is making yet another astonishingly bad statement, and on…
Another Tesla Model S – on fire Source: NBC Los Angeles Remember last year when we had three Tesla Model S car fires within a month? Two were from road debris skewering the battery pack, with the short circuit causing a car fire, while the third was a high speed…
Tesla Motors has opened their patent portfolio, hoping to encourage other automakers to use that technology to speed up electric vehicle development. At the same time we’ve learned BMW, Nissan and Tesla Motors are talking about collaboration around Tesla’s Supercharger system, despite a history of in-fighting between automakers on fast…
Tesla Motors appears to be in serious talks with at least two other automakers about electric car fast charging plans. Th talks bring together the three automakers with the most credible electric car development: BMW, Nissan and Tesla. The content of their discussions are hush-hush, but we know it’s related…
A single fast charging standard is best for electric vehicle owners – just like a single gasoline fuel hose has been best for gasoline vehicle owners. The gasoline industry could have evolved such that each car maker mandated a unique gasoline blend, that’s sold only through manufacturer owned gasoline stations,…
Earlier today, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced a new Patent model for Tesla Motors, and in writing my blog post I came up with several questions. What does it mean Tesla won’t sue other automakers so long as their use of Tesla’s patents are in “good faith”? Will Tesla…
Last week Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk hinted that Tesla was about to make a controversial announcement, and today we learned it’s a bombshell. Where most technology companies, whether they make cars or social networks on the Internet, use patents for defense from other companies, or as weapons to bludgeon…
Last week Elon Musk laid a bombshell during the Tesla Motors shareholders meeting, one that I barely mentioned in my report. I kind of brushed over it, writing a couple paragraphs about whether Tesla Motors should rebrand itself as a B Corporation because the company is seeking to create so…
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk just concluded the annual Tesla Shareholders meeting for 2014. As in previous years, it was the Q&A session that was most interesting, with Musk revealing some tidbits that perhaps hadn’t been said elsewhere, and generally answering concerns currently floating around the fate of Tesla Motors.…
Will electric car charging always look as it does today – a few charging stations here and there? When there are hundreds of thousands of electric cars sold per year, won’t the current electric vehicle charging model be swamped? Maybe a company needs to reconceptualize the whole model? The rise…
I’m accustomed to seeing Fox News as the enemy of electric cars, with Bill O’Reilly leading the anti-everything-sensible crusade. For some reason he’s beginning to sound sensible about electric vehicles, and is even making arguments similar to ones I’d make when “debating” with one of his fellow Fox “News” show…
How do “we” (our society, that is) determine the appropriate method for selling products? Why is gasoline sold at a gas station, cars at a car dealership, bread from groceries or bakeries, etc? Why don’t we just have stores that carry anything the merchant wants to sell that day? Why…
If Nissan develops a 180+ mile range Nissan Leaf & Infiniti EV, and GM develops a 200+ mile range electric car, and BMW continues pushing into the EV market, and VW follows through on plans to be a major force in the electric vehicle market, all of which is due…
What will it take for the rest of the automobile industry to stop dismissing Tesla Motors as a boutique car manufacturer? That phrase was actually used by a Nissan sales representative at the Silicon Valley Driving Charged and Connected event two weeks ago. He was answering a question about whether…
