Chevy Sonic possibly the base of a Chevy EV in 2017 The 200 mile range electric car from General Motors, badged with a Chevrolet brand, is possibly going to be announced in January at the Detroit Auto Show. Chevy Volt fans are clinging to this idea while sales of that…
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has made another of his obtuse tweets, suggesting something will be announced next week – something to do with the letter D – and something else. Good, thank you for sharing that you’re learning the alphabet? A bit over two years ago Elon tweeted about…
Because electric car battery packs are expensive, some in the industry think the pack should be leased separately from the car. Doing so would reduce the price of an electric car, making it more affordable, speeding up electric car adoption. That was the value proposition offered by Better Place, for…
The whole car industry must be able to compete against a 200+ mile range $35,000 MSRP electric car from Tesla Motors, by 2017. That fact is probably what’s behind today’s news/rumors that Nissan may be shutting down its battery factories and switching to LG Chem as their battery supplier. In…
Last week Tesla Motors excited us by taking a big step toward the promised Gigafactory, that in turn is the necessary big thing to build to enable the Tesla Model 3 electric car. While many people in Nevada are excited to know the Gigafactory is coming to Reno, and it’s…
Back in 2010, Tesla Motors and Toyota surprised us all with a deal to jointly develop the 2nd Generation Toyota RAV4-EV. Toyota also sold Tesla a factory it wasn’t using, with which Tesla now plans to build a half million EV’s a year in 2020. The resulting vehicle is being…
Tesla Motors has chosen the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center to house the Gigafactory. While we’re excited at the fact that Tesla has made a bold concrete step forward with their plans, reiterating the goal of selling 500,000 electric cars a year by 2020, there’s a big question – the incentives package.…
Are “we” doing too-little-too-late to fend off the crises caused by peak oil and climate change and the impacts both will have on the world economy, our food systems, and more? Looking at the level of resistance against clean energy technologies like electric vehicles, it’s easy for gloom and doom…
On Thursday, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced, as we revealed yesterday, that indeed the Reno Nevada area has been chosen as the Gigafactory location. As if to answer critics of the size of the incentive package, Gov. Sandoval stressed the job creation (over 22,000…
According to reports surfacing today, Tesla Motors has gone ahead and chosen Reno as the site of the Gigafactory. Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval is holding a press conference on Thursday to announce “a major economic development announcement” and according to the reports, a special legislative session has been called so…
Later this year Kia is due to launch sales of the Kia Soul EV in California. It’s thought production will be small at first, and with distribution only in California we might think this car is a Compliance Car – however, it’s also thought Kia will ramp up production and…
Tesla Motors is still saying the Tesla Model 3 will go on sale in 2017, despite my prediction the date will slip. To make that date the company has to ramp up the gigafactory, and time is ticking. Since that’s the key, what’s the latest news? It’s been almost a…
Today Tesla Motors released quarterly results for Q2 2014, said they’re on track to exceed the goal of 35,000 Model S sales during 2014, verified that they’d broken ground on a potential Gigafactory location in Reno Nevada, and several other things. Let’s take a look. To start with the news…
Tesla Motors and Panasonic today announced the expected agreement for joint operation of the Gigafactory. Under the agreement, Tesla will own the facility and Panasonic will be the primary partner occupying about half the space. Several companies will be on site manufacturing precursor materials, that Panasonic puts together to make…
Recent news has claimed the European version of the Chevy Volt, the Opel/Vauhall Ampera, is being canceled due to poor sales. As I’ve noted before, the Chevy Volt isn’t selling too well in the U.S. itself, and I imagine the European version isn’t doing very well against the Leaf. The…
