Batteries The 6 Big Takeaways From Tesla’s Battery Day The overall content of the Tesla Battery Day presentation might have been overwhelming for those who do not have a technical background in battery development. The level of abstraction that Elon Musk and Drew Baglino presented relative to Tesla's battery tech was surprisingly low, even though I’m sure they thought their presentation was just an overview... Read More →



Cars Tesla Eliminated 4 Weaknesses In 1 Year Wilhelm Graupner, Executive Director of Business Strategy, Sales & Marketing at AVL Northern Europe, shared a quick analysis of a one-year-old Tesla SWOT video and pointed out that Tesla has eliminated four of the identified weaknesses in one year... Read More →



Cars The Fully Electric VW ID.4 Is A Direct Assault On Internal Combustion Crossovers This morning, Volkswagen officially took the wraps off of the highly anticipated ID.4 electric crossover. Ahead of the public unveiling, CleanTechnica sat down with Johan de Nysschen, Chief Operating Officer Volkswagen America, Matthew Renna, Volkswagen America Vice President of e-mobility, and Jeffrey Lear, Volkswagen America Product Manager of Electric Vehicles for a live event in Los Angeles... Read More →



Batteries Tesla Officially Enters The Mining Business One of the many details revealed at Tesla's Battery Day event yesterday was that it's planning to build its own cathode factory here in North America... Read More →



Batteries The Secret of Tesla Battery Day For years, in discussions about future batteries, fanboys have touted the big breakthrough that would make batteries better, cheaper, safer, lighter, etc. — as if touched by a magic want. That is not how progress in science or engineering is made. It is always the dwarf standing on the giant's shoulders that sees new possibilities beyond the old horizons... Read More →



Carbon Pricing 2035: Clean Grid 90%, Electrify 50% For those deeply interested in our future energy system and how it will evolve, I highly recommend two in-depth papers published in the last year. Here I will show a similar vision step-by-step using some of the same assumptions and publicly available data using “back of the envelope calculations” (spreadsheets)... Read More →



Batteries Tesla Giga Shanghai Could Produce 1 Million Cars A Year Eventually At Tesla's 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed several matters we've written about in recent weeks and months. I will revisit a few of those highlights in a moment. First, though, there was one comment that the Tesla-oriented writers on our team here at CleanTechnica world headquarters thought was new. Elon noted that Giga Shanghai (Tesla's factory in Shanghai, China) could eventually produce 1 million vehicles a year... Read More →

