Electric car company Tesla’s stated long-term goal has been to make 500,000 electric cars a year by 2020, but on Tuesday at…
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Revolving door for Tesla’s head of China
Tesla’s President of China, Veronica Wu, has resigned after less than 9 months on the job, according to a report in Bloomberg. Wu…
Read MoreThere’s an opportunity for tech in the EPA’s proposed smog rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to tighten the rule for regulating ground-level ozone, or smog, a move that regulators hope will spark new technology development to reduce emissions.…
Read MoreHere’s what electric cars need to succeed: roaming for charging stations
I love my electric car -- but finding and paying for public charging stations could be a lot easier.…
Read MoreVolkswagen and Bosch are working on automated park-and-charge systems for electric cars
The EU-funded V-Charge consortium is fine-tuning a system -- already successfully demonstrated at a German airport -- for taking over autonomous electric vehicles and parking them very accurately, leaving them charging and ready to be summoned by the user's app.…
Read MoreTesla hovering around $200 per share this week
It seemed like only yesterday when electric car company Tesla Motors (s TSLA) hit $100 per share (well, a year ago). Now…
Read MoreIn the wake of fires, Tesla releases suspension software, while watchdog starts probe
Tesla says it's taking a few actions, following the three accident-related fires for its cars, including increasing clearance on highways through air suspension and tweaking car warranties. Meanwhile the government watchdog has opened an investigation.…
Read MoreNorway getting hooked up with Tesla Superchargers
Norway is getting at least 6 Tesla Superchargers, enabling 90 percent of the country's inhabitants to live within a 200-mile driving range of the Superchargers.…
Read MoreElon Musk: Tesla to demo battery swap technology on Thursday
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Tesla will demo battery swap technology at its design studio near LA on Thursday night.…
Read MoreReport: Better Place to file for bankruptcy
If Better Place files for bankruptcy in a few days, as reported by Fortune, it would represent a sober end to a high-flying dream that raised hundreds of millions of dollars.…
Read MoreAdding an electric car cut the payback point of our solar panel investment in half
When planning our solar panel home project in 2011, we figured on paper that it would take nearly a dozen years to break even on the investment. Turns out that adding an electric vehicle has cut that figure roughly in half.…
Read MoreHow Fisker’s struggles will affect electric cars, investing and government support
We've got the results of our survey on how Fisker's struggles could affect the electric car market, government incentives and cleantech investing. Check out my 21-page report I wrote for GigaOM Pro, and some of the teasers in this post.…
Read MoreAnother WARN class action suit for cleantech, this time for Coda Automotive
Here's the details of the class action lawsuit filed against Coda Automotive that I referenced yesterday: it's a complaint that Coda Automotive allegedly violated the WARN Act, that requires large employers to give employees 60 days written notice of mass layoffs.…
Read MoreElectric car maker Coda files for bankruptcy
Electric car company Coda Automotive has filed for bankruptcy, following slow sales and lawsuits. It's the latest electric car startup to struggle and falter.…
Read MoreA look under the hood: why electric car startup Fisker crashed and burned
We bring you the behind the scenes story of how electric car startup Fisker Automotive spent over a billion dollars, took down a government loan and ultimately delivered about 2,000 cars, a small fraction of what it originally promised.…
Read MoreHow China’s city-focused electric car programs fell short
China's cities are macro-laboratories that the government has been using to test out various roll-out strategies from industrial partnerships, to fast charging stations to rental systems. So why have the early numbers fallen short?…
Read MoreTesla messes with Texas, over how to sell its electric cars
Tesla is battling Texas over selling its electric cars directly to customers. CEO Elon Musk spoke at the Texas Capital Wednesday morning calling for support of a new bill.…
Read MoreFisker sues insurance company over 338 cars, $33M, lost in Sandy
On the tail end of a very difficult year for electric car company Fisker, the company reveals that its insurance claim for 338 Karmas, worth $33 million, was denied by the insurance company, and Fisker is now suing XL Insurance America in court.…
Read MoreReport: Better Place laying off hundreds
After slow sales in Israeli -- the first test bed and flagship market -- Better Place is laying off hundreds of employees. The company is struggling with losses as it figures out how to make Israelis want to sign up for electric car charging like a cell phone service.…
Read MoreLatest in cleantech, via GigaOM Pro
The latest in cleantech from GigaOM Pro this week: advanced battery technologies, the fate of clean energy post election, and should the U.S. aggressively export natural gas?…
Read MoreToday in cleantech: Apple’s sustainability
Apple seems to be increasingly willing to respond to negative publicity surrounding its sustainability practices, points out GigaOM Pro cleantech analyst Adam Lesser. Why?…
Read MoreParaffin mix paves way for cooler electric car batteries
A new coolant called CryoSolplus, being developed at one of Germany's Fraunhofer institutes, aims to make electric car batteries last longer by using paraffin droplets that are three times better at absorbing heat than water.…
Read MoreCome learn about electric cars and be on the radio & TV
Come check out our Common Wealth Club segment on electric cars at noon today in downtown San Francisco.…
Read MoreElectric car charging gets a $120M push in California
A decade-old claim with a predecessor to NRG Energy, Dynegy, over power contracts during the state's energy crisis, will turn into a $120 million settlement fund to invest in building out an electric car charging network in California.…
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