Inside EVs

Renault opens 2017 with an electric car sales surge, as the new ZOE is selling like proverbial hotcakes. The first quarter of 2017 ended with some 9,220 ZOE sales, which is 57% more than year ago (around 5,900). Most of the sales comes via France – 56% (5,191) where ZOE …read more

It can go up to 217 miles per hour, yet it’s super luxurious inside. A rare combination indeed. Video description: “We took a ride in the Lucid Air from electric-car startup Lucid Motors. It was developed by former Tesla executives, including Peter Rawlinson, the chief engineer behind the Tesla Model… …read more

Tesla has yet to open its new San Antonio Service Center, but thanks to a Reddit poster, we already know that it has a roof full of solar panels. In the future, once the pace slows down a bit for Tesla – who are we kidding – we should begin… …read more

SolarCity, after being acquired by Tesla last November, is now on a diet undergoing a serious transformation, and is being integrated into Tesla’s more established sales channels. One of the latest developments of SolarCity’s evolution, is a resignation from the door-to-door sales approach. And apparently, that change can’t come …read more

WILL TESLA DUPLICATE AMAZON’S ‘CRAZY’ SUCCESS STORY? As Tesla passed Ford and GM to become the most valuable US automaker, the press started to run out of adjectives to describe insanity. “A company with no consistent profits worth $50 billion? It’s crazy, nutty, crackers, cuckoo!” *This article comes to us …read more

The boom of the “New Energy Vehicle” sales (think plug-ins) in China has caused the flowering of numerous EV startups, most of which will not necessarily survive beyond 2020 according to…one of those start-ups. Nio chairman William Li stated that two, maybe three will be still around in five years …read more

Tesla Model 3 Testing at Fremont Factory The windshield wipers appear to be functioning properly. A few images, plus a windshield-wiper-in-action GIF, capture the Tesla Model 3 out on the test track at Tesla’s Fremont factory. The Imgur uploader added some notes to describe what was seen. “They kept removing… …read more

For a select group of top referrers, the Tesla Model 3 will be unveiled for viewing on June 2. And it’s precisely the same date that we originally predicted for the Model 3 revealing. Some two months back we wrote: Based on the fact that the new Project Loveday commercial… …read more

A longtime Grohmann engineering executive was forced out after he disagreed with CEO Elon Musk over the firms new strategy, following the recent acquisition. Klaus Grohmann had different plans for his company, than that of Elon Musk’s future goals for Tesla Advanced Automation Germany. Now that Musk has taken the …read more

Plug-in car sales for Europe so far in 2017 have given us a lot of satisfaction, as we not only see strong growth, but a return to near record levels normally reserved for the end of the year, when special forces are at work pushing the numbers higher. For the… …read more