February 26, 2010 – 11:24 am
Tesla is hoping its new leasing strategy will help usher in a new round of early adopters into the mainstream.
Read more in the article:
Tesla to Offer Auto Leases
‘Starting Wednesday, the 2010 Roadster, which competes against exotic sport cars like the Porsche 911, will be available on a three-year, 30,000-mile lease based on the manufacturer’s [...]
February 8, 2010 – 10:03 am
Coulomb Technologies are moving into EV charging.
More details — and a nice namecheck for ‘Revenge’
– after the jump:
Harris: Coulomb Technologies gets funding for electric car charging stations
“The director of the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” is now filming the sequel, “Revenge of the Electric Car.” Just a hunch, but Tesla Motors could be cast [...]
February 3, 2010 – 7:05 pm
According to their SEC filing, California electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. plans sell up to $100 million in an initial public offering.
Read more in the LA Times story:
Tesla Motors plans $100-million IPO
From the article:
“California electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. plans sell up to $100 million in an initial public offering, according to a [...]
November 25, 2009 – 9:44 am
Rumors are circling that Tesla is preparing an IPO, although no one at Tesla is yet talking.
More details at:
Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO
“Tesla would mark the first public offering from a U.S. automaker since Henry Ford’s Ford Motor debuted its shares in 1956. The IPO represents a landmark in the resurgence of electric-car technology that [...]
November 19, 2009 – 1:06 pm
A coalition of car makers, battery suppliers and electricity providers has come together to ask for federal help for EVs.
More details at:
Group Seeks US Tax Credits To Spur Electric Car Use
by Judith Burns for Dow Jones.
“A coalition of auto makers, battery manufacturers, utility operators and shipping companies wants the U.S. to offer tax credits for [...]
We’ve been waiting for several months to hear this good news. Three EV pioneers, Tesla, Nissan and Ford, are receiving loans from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program. Totaling $8 billion, the funds will be used to manufacture efficient vehicles and electric drive components.
In Tesla’s case, they’ll receive a total of [...]
YOU KNOW THE times are a changin’ when you see Republican senators like Richard Lugar turning out for the launch of an electric vehicle. We interviewed Senator Lugar in DC recently — as we caught the Capitol Hill debut of Bright Automotive’s Idea — a plug-in hybrid electric delivery vehicle.
Senator Lugar was also cheering for [...]
I got invited to go to Dodger Stadium this afternoon to test drive the Nissan EV. This wasn’t the final car, but the finished drivetrain in a Nissan Cube. I was assured it would be very close to the actual feel of the car though, and given the similarity of the Cube in weight to [...]
President Obama is making good on his promise to spearhead the EV revolution. During a visit to Southern California Edison’s Pomona EV test facility, he launched a $2.4 billion competitive grant program for US battery makers.
It’s all part of the Obama administration’s plan get to 1 million plug in hybrids on the road by 2015.
Here’s [...]
March 11, 2009 – 11:23 am
Josh Hafenbrack posts this informative entry covering the status of Hasner’s Florida State electric car tax break on the SunSentinel.com.
Florida State Representative (and House Majority Leader) Adam Hasner (R) has just introduced the bill HB 879 – Financial Incentives for Electric Vehicles.
From Josh’s article:
As the House Energy and Utilities Committee gave its stamp of approval [...]
November 7, 2008 – 4:00 pm
Suffice to say, all of GM’s development programs including the Volt are threatened.
For all of GM’s industrial successes and environmental failures, many elements of the American economy including the advertising-dependent entertainment industry — rise and fall with its fortunes.
G.M. Says U.S. Cash Is Its Best Hope
By Bill Vlasic and Nick Bunkley for the NY Times.
The [...]
