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Tesla Model S & Nissan LEAF world’s best-selling electric cars in 2016
The Tesla Model S and Nissan LEAF clocked in as the best-selling electric cars in the world in 2016.
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Tesla CTO says EV batteries should last 10-15 years – minimum
Good news for Tesla drivers, with CTO JB Straubel saying the company expects "10 maybe 15 year life at a minimum" from its EV batteries.
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If Tesla model 3 delivers, “gas vehicles are history,” auto executives admit
Auto industry execs must already know that Tesla is set to deliver, and is set to be a cost-competitive with gas cars.
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Tesla explains why EVs selling electricity to grid not as good as it sounds
Tesla says it doesn’t make economic sense for EVs to send electricity back to the grid, but concedes that “dynamic charging” of EVs at times convenient to the grid...
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Tesla moves its 500,000 cars-a-year production target forward to 2018
Tesla responds to overwhelming demand for Model 3 by moving 2020 target to produce 500,000 vehicles a year forward to 2018.
New data shows Tesla crushed the competition in the large luxury car market in 2015.
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple’s first electric car will hit the market in 2019.
Audi shows off Audi e-tron quattro and Audi Q7 e-tron at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Edmunds has conducted a little study of Tesla’s certified pre-owned (CPO) program and has come up with some interesting findings.
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Solar power for low- & moderate-income Americans — Obama’s new solar initiative
Going solar is a no-brainer money-maker for millions of people. That increasingly includes low- and moderate-income people as well as rich people.
