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Can Tesla Make Money? Don't Discount the "Wheee!" Factor
  There are now 200 high-performance electric Tesla Roadsters in customers’ hands, but still at least 1,000 waiting for their keys. This situation is producing pent-up demand: in September, some eager beaver paid $160,000 for a used example of this $109,000 sports car. I...
Tags: Car, Sports Car, Tesla Roadsters, Rachel Konrad, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-02-12

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Tesla and Bricklin in Court: A Tangle of Legal Issues
This is the week for legal action in the auto world. First, Tesla Motors announced that it had settled the bitter lawsuit brought against it by company founder Martin Eberhard. The terms are confidential, and the company isn’t talking about the details, but they appear to have kissed and made...
Tags: China, Lawsuit, Automobile Company, Investment, Tesla Roadster, Henrik Fisker, Manufacturing, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-09-23
Greenwich: For Tesla, it's Where the Money is
GREENWICH--According to New York magazine, by 2007 some 40 percent of the world’s 351 hedge funds with more than $1 billion in assets were located either in the Upper East Side of Manhattan or Greenwich, Connecticut (which the magazine calls “Lower Hedgistan”). Sure, some of those funds have taken big hits,...
Tags: Greenwich, Tesla Roadster, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Asset Management, Investment, Financial Services, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-02-27
Calling Tesla's Repair Rangers: At-Home Service With a Geek Squad Smile
As big companies such as Best Buy start selling electric vehicles EVs, attention will inevitably turn to customer service. Best Buy is selling Brammo electric motorcycles, Segways and plug-in scooters at a few stores in California, and that means the Geek Squad is empowered to fix...
Tags: Customer Service, Best Buy Co. Inc., Plug-in, Tesla, Tesla Motors, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-10-13
Tesla Will Build Battery Packs for Other Electric Cars
If Tesla Motors can't get its own electric sedan on the road, at least it can partner with other car makers to get their electric vehicles on the road. Tesla, the Silicon Valley electric car company that has repeatedly delayed production of its Model S sedan, will produce lithium-ion battery...
News items 2009-08-07
Tesla Motors using Dana's battery cooling tech in the Roadster
Maumee, Ohio-based Dana Holding (NYSE:DAN) disclosed for the first time today that its battery cooling technology is going into Tesla Motors' 2010 all-electric Roadster Sport, a high-performance, zero-emissions sports car. The 2010 Roadsters, including the Sport, started production in July and are now available. The company has already delivered nearly...
Tags: Battery, Dana Holding Corp.
News items 2009-11-16
Want a $42K Tax Rebate on Your Tesla Roadster? Too Late
Colorado residents who have signed up to buy a luxury electric sports car from Tesla Motors in 2009 will get to speed through a giant loop hole in the state's tax code, and get a $42,083 tax credit over five years on the vehicle. But if you want to...
Tags: vehicle, tax
News items 2009-10-23
The World's First Charging "Corridors" for EVs Attack the Range Problem
If you find yourself in Cary, North Carolina with the need for a fast-food fix, bring your electric car along. The Mickey D’s in that Chapel Hill suburb is decidedly green (with LED lights, solartubes for natural light and drought-resistant plantings), and its amenities include free EV charging. ...
Tags: Station, Arizona, Attack, EV, Mickey D, Transportation, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-09-28
Plug-In Hybrids: Will They be Affordable?
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles PHEVs have no more committed champion than Felix Kramer, founder of the nonprofit California Cars Initiative, also known as CalCars.org. Kramer was advocating for the commercialization of PHEVs when most carmakers were still denying that a business case could be made for them. Now,...
Tags: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Automobile Company, Plug-in, BYD, Jim Motavalli
Blog posts 2009-03-19
Rivals jostle in the electric car charge
In spite of the deep crisis in the automotive industry, several large carmakers are taking a gamble on a technology that has not yet proved it can win over consumers – electric cars. Cars of the future: MITSUBISHI i MiEVThe Japanese carmaker's pure electric model can drive 160km on a...
Tags: car, Electric Car, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
News items 2009-08-19
Fisker to convert a GM plant in Delaware to build plug-in hybrid cars.
Posted by: David Welch on October 26 Out with the old, in with the new. California electric-car startup Fisker Automotive will announce plans tomorrow to turn an old General Motors plant in Wilmington (Dell.) into a hybrid electric-car plant. Fisker plans to use the 52-year-old factory to build its $48,000...
Tags: buyer, General Motors Corp., Car, Plug-in, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
News items 2009-10-27
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