Tag: Tesla Motors
Podcast: Don’t believe Elon Musk’s hype about autonomous driving EVs
Mobility as a Service won’t really arrive until 2030 and become a mature business model until 2050 The hype around autonomous electric vehicles (AEV) is out of control, much of it led by Elon Musk, the visionary CEO of Tesla Motors, who has claimed that existing EVs will become fully autonomous with just a software […]
New BC electric work vehicle program should be focus of Horgan govt’s zero emission transportation strategy
Electric work vehicles add value for industry by lowering costs, providing other advantages like better torque As a rule, electric vehicle subsidy programs are bad public policy. The American experience nicely illustrates how to tax dollars helping millionaires buy $125,000 Teslas. But a new BC program to boost sales of specialty EVs, especially electric work […]
Electric semi-truck may finally turn me into a Tesla fan-boi
Tesla electric semi-truck lowers operating costs by 20%, has superior torque for hauling loads up steep grades While I respect Elon Musk, I’ve never been a fan-boi. Why? Because of the hype. The man has enough giddy middle-aged tech nerds who swoon at his every Tweet. And don’t get me started on all the Bloomberg […]
Musk tweets photos as first Model 3 rolls off the assembly line – is this Tesla a game changer?
EV analyst Chris Robinson cautions that Tesla Model 3 not yet a tipping point for EV market, industry The long awaited first Tesla Model 3 – a sleek black four door gifted to CEO Elon Musk by a board member – hit the streets of California Monday and immediately became a social media sensation. The $35,000USD […]
Electric vehicle news brief July 9: Self-driving long-haul E-truck unveiled by Swedish company
Also in this brief: Tesla to build world’s largest utility-scale battery system for Australia in 100 days or it’s free Swedish tech company Einride has unveiled the first full-scale prototype freight freight truck that is remotely controlled by drivers. The innovate vehicle, called the T-pod, is significantly smaller than today’s heavy trucks and the company hopes to […]
Elon Musk, Tony Seba hyping fully self-driving cars, but they’re still 1-2 decades away – analyst
Technical problems, state and national regulations, and insurance companies are all serious constraints to adoption of self-driving cars The world is abuzz with the prospect of fully autonomous vehicles, abandoning private car ownership for “Transportation as a Service,” and cheap transportation costing 10 per cent of current rates – all backstopped by the futuristic predictions […]
Will Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle ‘disrupt’ auto markets? Not a chance
The big launch of the Tesla Model 3 is on schedule for later in 2017 and pundits are already speculating that the $35,000 US electric vehicle will be a major disruption to the market for internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. That’s not impossible, but it is very very unlikely. Technical disruptions that significantly accelerate the […]
Tesla’s Elon Musk adds solar roof tiles to his clean energy vision
“An electric car, a Powerwall and a solar roof…This is sort of the integrated future.” – Elon Musk By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Friday unveiled new energy products aimed at illustrating the benefits of combining his electric car and battery maker with solar installer SolarCity Corp. The […]
Elon Musk issues press release berating himself for ‘hubris’…Who does that?
Your faithful scribe slowly becoming Tesla fan boy…one impertinent press release at a time Tesla Motors has just issued an extraordinary press release, one that makes me think maybe Elon Musk may yet compete head to head with the big boys of automobile manufacturing. As everyone on the planet now knows, Tesla Model 3 pre-orders […]
Electric cars still not ready for prime time
Electric cars are nothing but taxpayer subsidized toys for the rich and famous By Kenneth P. Green for Troy Media Twenty years ago, in May, 1995, I had my first op-ed published in a major newspaper, the Los Angeles Times. The title was Pull the Plug on the Electric Car Mandate. In that column I […]
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