Tesla Gigafactory Headed To Nevada (Unofficial Leak)
Back in a podcast interview in May, Nevada resident and long-time EV enthusiast Bob Tregilus mentioned to me that he thought he saw Tesla work being done on a site nearby (just outside of Reno),...
View ArticleIs Tesla Overreaching With Gigafactory Tactics?
Tesla Motors announced big plans earlier this year. Though the agreement is not public, Panasonic is also involved: it plans to manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells Tesla uses to build...
View ArticleLux Research Predicts +50% Overproduction For Gigafactory’s Li-ion
Originally Published in the ECOreport Tesla motors has already defied the odds. Few in the automotive world expected to see a high priced electric vehicle like the Model S achieve such recognition. It...
View ArticleTesla’s Gigafactory May Hit $100/kWh Holy Grail Of EV Batteries, Report Predicts
Tesla’s Gigafactory may achieve the $100/kWh holy grail of EV battery pack costs, according to recent reports. Most analysts within the EV industry consider the $100-per-KW-hour water mark to be the...
View ArticleTesla To Nevada: You Can Haz Our Gigarockstarfactory. Thanks For The $1.2...
As you may have heard by now, Nevada has more Gigafactory wooing skills and natural attraction than California, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Tesla CEO, Chairman, and Product Architect Elon Musk and...
View ArticleSweet Electric Scooter Has Portable Battery, BMW i3 Sales Jump… (EV News)
More EV news for you EV lovers: This sweet electric scooter has a vintage look and a portable battery. (EV Obsession) WiTriCity’s inductive wireless charging tech may be gaining momentum. Or maybe not…...
View ArticleNCES 7.0 Summary Report (+ Full Speeches From Hillary Clinton & Harry Reid)
The 7th Annual National Clean Energy Summit was just held September 4th at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. You ask why Mandalay Bay is significant? Well, its convention center, where the event was...
View ArticleTesla Gigafactory Could Produce 20% More Electricity Than It Needs
GAS2. Last week an area outside of Reno, Nevada was chosen as the site of the first Tesla battery Gigafactory. In addition to bringing 6,500 much-needed jobs and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility...
View ArticleTesla Gigafactory Is HUGE (2 Graphics Add Perspective)
EV Obsession. Most of us are content to simply know that the Tesla Gigafactory is going to be big… huge, even. How huge? It hadn’t crossed my mind to even put it in perspective. No matter how big it...
View ArticleTesla Gigafactory Address Tweeted By Elon Musk
Because basically everything Elon Musk tweets is worth writing about, and because the Tesla Gigafactory is probably the biggest cleantech story of the year (or the decade?), here’s the latest speck of...
View ArticleHonda Pounds Another Nail Into Fossil Fuel Coffin
Honda has a happy over wind turbine efficiency at its Ohio transmission plant, but it got buried under an avalanche of news about the Tesla Gigafactory... Honda Pounds Another Nail Into Fossil Fuel...
View ArticleTesla’s Lithium Supply Relies On America’s Loneliest Highway
The Gigafactory deal with Nevada has been inked, and in addition to $1.2 billion in incentives from the Silver State, Tesla is also getting a new highway Tesla’s Lithium Supply Relies On America’s...
View ArticleLeilani Münter Video, Asia Tesla Supercharger Maps Updated, Venucia e30...
EV enthusiasts, here’s another EV news roundup. Enjoy! Tesla’s Asia Supercharger maps have been updated. Japan is about to get a mighty good helping of the electric Superchargers. (EV Obsession) Also,...
View ArticleTesla Stock Correction Corrections, Gigafactory Skepticism, BMW i8 Price...
Time for another electric car news roundup. Enjoy! Tesla News A Tesla Roadster loses 20% of its range in 4 years. (GAS2) Tesla is still committed to California, says Tesla. (GAS2) Is Tesla an auto...
View ArticleHow Does Tesla Stack Up Against Its More Traditional Rivals?
By Patrick Foot, financial markets writer at IG*, a leading provider of online stockbroking, CFDs, and currency trading. The distance that Tesla has travelled in the past 18 months has been truly...
View ArticleElon Musk Building Another “Gigafactory” In New York State
Elon Musk will soon be building what amounts, essentially, to another “gigafactory.” This one will be in New York State as per a recent agreement with the government there. Or course, to be clear, this...
View ArticleTesla Superchargers Per Capita, 200-Mile GM Electric Car… (EV News)
Get your EV news fix here. From Tesla to Tesla to Tesla (oh yeah, and some cool Nissan, GM, and BMW electric car stories), here are some cool stories we haven’t covered (yet). Tesla Is an Unplugged...
View ArticlePanasonic Creates Gigafactory-Dedicated Company
EV Obsession. Tesla and Panasonic are the two driving forces behind the massive battery Gigafactory being built in the Nevada desert. To facilitate this huge project, Panasonic has formed a new company...
View ArticleTesla Motors Deal For Nevada Gigafactory Land Concluded
Though Tesla Motors had already begun construction at the 980-acre site east of Reno where the Gigafactory is being built, the land didn’t actually belong to the company until a few days ago, when the...
View ArticleTesla Model X Delay — Good or Bad? (+ Model 3 Status, China Factory, Record...
The news from Tesla’s quarterly financials call last night that seems to be biggest is that the Model X is being delayed again. This seems to be the 4th time. The reason given is that Tesla is trying...
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