Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

With the Tesla Model S selling quite well lately, and with Tesla reporting profits quarter after quarter, it was only a matter of time before other car makers take a page from Elon Musk’s book and start thinking about designing …

From Guest Blogger Jordan: Ford Could Make a Car Like Tesla’s Model S, According to CEO Read More »

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Apparently Henrik Fisker is back with a new set of promises, claiming that he’ll be unveiling two new cars on November 20, a media day at next month’s LA Auto Show. Back-to-back press conferences are scheduled with no details yet revealed, …

New Auto Offering From Fisker…..Zzzzzzzz Read More »

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As pointed out in this article, the presence of electric vehicles plugged into our grid will one day provide a great number of different benefits, largely in terms of “ancillary services,” but also in terms of absorbing off-peak power, and, …

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According to this article, Tesla’s announcement of its new Model D—and simultaneous statement that we’ll have to wait three more years for the affordable Model X, or whatever it will be called in 2017/18—was “received fairly well by automobile analysts.”  …

Telsa’s Model “D” Stands for “Disappointment” Read More »

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When Elon Musk posted a tweet saying Tesla is about to “unveil the D” a couple of days ago, it kept millions of people guessing what that “D” might stand for, with most auto experts speculating that it either points …

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Tesla Motors receives more free ink every day than most cleantech concerns get in a decade, and this is understandable, as: • There’s a bunch at stake here, in terms of the future of transportation • The concept that cars …

Tesla Motors: A Subject of Conversation Like No Other Read More »

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It appears that my friends at EMCycle, who created a unique design for an enclosed electric bicycle, have gotten ripped off.  Here’s a product from a company that seems to have simply appropriated their concept and put it into production. How …

Unique Electric Bicycle Concept: Stolen? Read More »

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Every day or so I get an email from a friend celebrating the wonderful innovation of Google’s driverless car.  I just responded to one: Sorry to be a wet blanket, but this does very little to take us in the …

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It is the birthday of Michael Faraday, whose discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism in the 1830s remains to this day one of the most important contributions to the well-being of humankind. By coincidence, I’m having lunch tomorrow …

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I subscribe to the website Seeking Alpha for news about Tesla Motors, meaning that I receive perhaps three or four emails per day proffering opinions on the value of the company’s stock.  Needless to say, some of these make more …

Tesla Motors Get Lots of Ink in Seeking Alpha Read More »

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