Tesla Motors Pushing for Side-View Mirror Elimination
Aerodynamics play a big role in fuel economy and, in electric vehicles like those built by Tesla Motors, range, which is why side-view mirrors...
Long-Range Affordable Electric Vehicles Coming Soon
Electric vehicles, if you ask the layperson (• - see note), suffer from a couple of major faults, most outstandingly affordability and range.
If we...
Tesla Motors CEO Foresees EV Battery Prices Will Soon Drop Under $200 per Kilowatt
Electric car batteries are going to get cheaper, or at least that's what Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, said in a conference call...
Bob Lutz on Tesla Motors – “It’s Too Expensive to Run the Company”
Given that Bob Lutz has been head honcho for a number of automakers and departments of automakers, I would definitely take some stock in...
General Motors Expanding Solar Power
Cutting into the bottom line and cutting into the carbon footprint, that’s the aim behind General Motors’ continuing solar power expansion at its facilities...
Elon Musk Pushes Tesla Closer Toward a Workerless, Automated Factory
There aren't two ways about it, Elon Musk is a visionary. His latest goal is something that falls right on the border of madness,...
GM Hy-Wire Fuel Cell Vehicle Tested by Top Gear
...and here's the HyWire technology, the one the world has been talking about in the last few months. It's a concept made by General Motors, there is only one example of it made, and it runs on fuel cell power. I mean... hydrogen power.
General Motors Meets the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry
The ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry, run by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is an encouragement for corporations to improve efficiency and reduce their...
VIA Motors’ Big Hybrid Truck Lineup Revealed at 2013 NAIAS
Bob Lutz, General Motors ex-vice chairman, is now heading up efforts to produce a series of extended-range electric vehicles that are nothing...
Tesla Motors Could Double Global Demand for Panasonic 18650 Lithium-Ion Cells
Tesla Motors started out small and, probably in a money-saving move, decided to use commodity Panasonic 18650 Lithium-ion cells for its battery packs.
As...
