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Tesla shares surged 12 percent in after hours trading on news that Tesla reached profitability in Q1 for the first time in its ten-year history with a profit of $15 million on sales of $562 million for the quarter, a record for the EV producer.[read more]

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There is very real consumer anxiety in addition to range issues, like driving EVs under normal weather conditions as well as the classic chicken-and-egg problem of the need for building vehicle charging infrastructure.[read more]

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered a sort of parting gift to Energy Secretary Steven Chu Tuesday, as the pair were about to conclude a session at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit near Washington, D.C.[read more]

New York Times public editor criticizes Broder Tesla story, using the headline, “Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test.”[read more]

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The fact is drivers of all-electric cars quickly become accustomed to their vehicle’s limitations and strengths, and are amongst the most satisfied owners on the road.[read more]

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Despite all the heat of the Tesla vs. New York Times interlude, however, it illustrates something we already know: batteries are finicky beasts, relatively speaking.[read more]

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The industry is expanding at an impressive rate as well. Cadillac, Honda, BMW, and Audi will take their best shot at electric vehicles in 2014, pumping tens of thousands of additional PEVs into the market almost immediately.[read more]

Guest post by By Craig Shields, Editor, 2GreenEnergy.com As I told the audience in my recent presentation at the Electric Vehicle Summit, I actually see this subject as one of very few bright spots happening in the world today. In particular, it appears that the divorce between Big Auto and Big Oil will be a messy and ugly affair, but...[read more]

Detroit’s the Motor City. California’s car culture is unsurpassed. But when the electric car industry staged an “innovation motorcade” of electric cars and trucks today, it did so in Washington, D.C.–fittingly, because, without the government, there would simply be no electric car industry. Indeed, the market for electric cars is so...[read more]

Tesla S Car, Alpha Tesla has released a video of the “Alpha Phase Model S Car,” with this accompanying text: Model S, engineered from the ground up as an EV, is meticulously designed for superior aerodynamics, stability and handling, crash safety, performance and range. Before Model S enters production it will have been thoroughly tested...[read more]

On (and on, and on) The Road The owner of an all-electric Tesla Roadster from Texas has set a new record for distance traveled on a single battery charge: 347.2 miles. The GPS log of the trip, completed on a closed circuit in California last week, has been posted as proof, but Tesla Motors hasn’t officially verified the new record. The...[read more]

In Wednesday’s New York Times, I wrote about two experimental projects in California to store solar energy produced by photovoltaic rooftop arrays: In the garage of Peter Rive’s San Francisco home is a battery pack. It is not connected to Mr. Rive’s electric Tesla Roadster sports car, but to the power grid. The California Public...[read more]

  John Doerr, the brilliant and hard-charging venture capitalist, has told me several times that clean tech is still awaiting its “Netscape moment.” What he means, I think, is that  investors will get excited about start-up companies across a range of so-called clean technologies — solar, wind, biofuels, energy efficiency,...[read more]

photo: SolarCity In my new Green State column on Grist, I write about how SolarCity, a Silicon Valley rooftop solar installer, is getting into the electric-car charging station business: You can’t get more California greenin’ than this. Peter Rive can charge up his Tesla Roadster electric sports car in his San Francisco garage with...[read more]

CNet reports that Daimler is climbing on the electric car bandwagon by grabbing on to Tesle Motors - Daimler grabs Tesla stake in electric-car push.German automotive giant Daimler has invested in electric-car company Tesla Motors and plans to use Tesla's battery packs in its Smart electric car due later this year.At a Tuesday press...[read more]