Abu Dhabi National Energy (TAQA), the United Arab Emirates state-owned oil exploration company, sold its 7 percent share of Tesla Motors.

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In this excerpt, we examine 5 human needs – health, wealth, earth, equality and trust – that have potential to generate high growth of top-line revenue and innovative leadership in billion-person markets.

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People at the green end of the spectrum tend to roll their eyes at the very mention of the word SUV. Some have even alleged that the term stands for “supersized unconscionable vehicle.” Others have wondered if rising fuel prices will lead to the demise of their nemesis. It would be nice to think that [...]

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Makers of electric vehicles (EVs) still have some kinks to work out when it comes to charging the battery. The biggest kink is taking an EV from something you can only drive around town to a car you can use on long trips. Tesla Motors, the only American all-EV car manufacturer, is working on a [...]

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A week ago, the renowned Burning Man festival raged in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. More than 50,000 people from all over the world gathered as a community and built a city for a week. The prevailing spirit of the event is self-reliance, civic responsibility, creativity and a purposeful absence of commerce. The very [...]

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As competition in the residential solar power installation field revs up to a high pitch, solar industry giant SolarCity is looking to the electric vehicle market in order to give itself an edge. The company has just announced a partnership with another leading company in the EV charger field, ClipperCreek, to sell EV chargers through [...]

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Tesla will provide the electric powertrain system (including the battery, charging system, inverter, motor, gearbox and associated software) for the Toyota electric RAV4, according to an SEC filing on July 15, 2011. Tesla will provide Toyota “with certain services related to the supply of the Tesla Battery and Powertrain,” the filing states. Toyota will pay [...]

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This post is part of a blogging series by marketing students at the Presidio Graduate School’s MBA program. You can follow along here. By Federico De Silva Leon The electric vehicle (EV) is here to stay despite the many challenges it has faced, from the technology being ahead of the infrastructure to support it, to [...]

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With sustainability becoming more and more of a concern with consumers, automobile manufacturers are providing solutions to meet that demand.  Likewise, there needs to be infrastructure to provide fuel for these new automobiles. However, there is no guarantee that consumers will adopt the automobile choices provided. Nor is there a guarantee that a fueling infrastructure [...]

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It’s a good guess that most Tesla owners are jet-setters. But the Tesla Roadster owned by one anonymous Bay Area man might get around even more than he does. That’s because he’s sharing his $157,000 EV two-seater. With you. Or with whomever would like to drive it (as long as he or she has a [...]

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BY Phil Covington Every industry loves its acronyms and the electric vehicle business is no exception. As a new wave of electric vehicles is about to hit showrooms, spearheaded by Nissan and Chevrolet, customers are going to have to wrap their heads around a whole new lingo. Here is a quick glossary of terms, starting [...]

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Tesla Motors’ stock is up on news that Japanese electronics giant Panasonic will invest $30 million in the Silicon Valley electric car manufacturer. Panasonic is a preferred supplier for the lithium cells that Tesla uses in its Roadster model, and is now almost certain to be the supplier for the upcoming Model S sedan. According [...]

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Radical breakthrough innovation often happens in garages, window-less offices, and coffee shops.  Small companies innovate.  Ideas take off and get big when they are taken to scale.  In other words, big business brings innovation to the world.  When these two join forces, good things can happen, like when Toyota invested in Tesla Motors to the tune [...]

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Last week, FastCompany.com published an article suggesting that Tesla, the luxury electric vehicle company that seemed to have everything going for it, is burning through its cash at an alarming rate: When will Tesla Motors stop hemorrhaging money? The electric car pioneer made a splash with its NASDAQ debut last month…But this week Tesla reported [...]

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Tesla’s initial public offering (IPO) was well-timed. Except for the World Cup, the past week was a relatively slow news week, unless you are a G8 or G20 news junkie.  The Gulf Oil spill will not end anytime soon, not that highways suffered from lack of traffic over the holiday weekend.  In a world where [...]

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By Pauline S Chandler A bus load of 35 LOHAS conference participants headed out last week to tour five businesses in Boulder, Colorado.  On our tour we visited: 1. Ecocyle 2. Celestial Seasonings 3. Gaiam 4. Ellies 5. Tesla As I try to synthesize this day, I am struck by the power of story telling [...]

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Electric car maker Tesla Motors probably could not have picked a better time for their initial public offering as interest in alternatives to the internal combustion engine has been growing in tandem with the oil slick off Louisiana. Even as Tesla CEO Elon Musk traveled around the country this week pitching the start-up’s $100 million [...]

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Tesla’s new partnership with Toyota comes at a trying time in the history of both companies. The recent announcement initially seemed to be good news for these two leaders in the burgeoning green car market. But Tesla’s amended S-1 filing released May 27 indicates that perhaps the deal isn’t as rosy as it first appeared–at [...]

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“About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” wrote Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in a court filing dated February 23, reports VentureBeat. According to documents filed in his divorce case, from ex-wife Justine Musk, he reportedly made $9,551,753 in 2008 and an average of $17.2 million a year from 2005 to 2008. His [...]

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Triple Pundit’s BC Upham chronicled the partnership, recently announced, between Toyota and Tesla Motors to reopen part of the NUMMI plant in Fremont, CA, creating a coup for the green economy and the SF Bay Area as it establishes itself as the hub of sustainable enterprise and green jobs.  For those of us who’ve watched [...]

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Japanese car maker Toyota and glossy electric vehicle start-up Tesla announced a partnership last week that will bring production of Tesla’s Model S sedan to a recently-shuttered Toyota plant in Fremont, California. Toyota has traditionally taken a pessimistic view of the commercial viability of all-electric vehicles, and perhaps a dim view of the companies that [...]

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It’s hard not to see the flurry of activity preceding Dec 2010’s slated electric vehicle launches as an expression of joyous excitement. A range of stakeholders are taking action, and coordinating to prepare for widespread electric vehicle ownership. But are they in fact preparing for a new Golden Age in transportation, for the most significant [...]

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While Tesla Motors and other EV manufacturers have had recent successes and grabbed quite a few headlines, they still face a major hurdle: charging infrastructure. Without a fast and reliable way to re-fuel their vehicles, EV customers will be limited to those who drive less than 200 miles per day or those who can afford [...]

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In the glorious Past Before Television, adventurous men and women gained fame and fortune by testing their skills in competitions designed to expand the limits of human knowledge and innovation. Several organizations are bringing back this kind of “innovation prize” in a big way, with competitions designed to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, and [...]

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In years to come, we may look back on 2009 as the year that electric vehicles became mainstream–at least as far as the media is concerned. The past few weeks have been no different as a number of organizations from all over the automotive industry made EV-related announcements. One of these organizations, the Cleantech Group, [...]

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Leading solar power installer Solar City, Tesla Motors, and Rabobank have partnered to instal five fast-charge checkpoints for electric vehicles along Highway 101 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The charge stations are at Rabobank branches in Salinas, Atascadero, Santa Maria and Goleta, with the fifth in a public parking garage in San Luis Obispo. [...]

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The outlook for the electric car couldn’t have looked brighter when oil was priced at $140 a barrel, consumer confidence was high, and offers of credit were plentiful. Now that a variety of electric vehicles are nearly ready to hit the market in larger quantities, the world is a different place. The leading manufacturers of [...]

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The all-electric high-performance Mission One “superbike” from Mission Motors breaks the land speed record for an electric motorcycle at the Bonneville Speedway.

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The Guardian newspaper, in partnership with the Cleantech Group, have announced the Global Cleantech 100, which they are calling “the first global, peer-reviewed look at the industry.” The list is the result of a survey of hundreds of cleantech experts, and thousands of companies, looking for those with the best commercial potential. A panel of [...]

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It could take ten years or more to become apparent, but I’ll call it now: the electric car will replace the internal combustion engine. A caveat: I am not an automotive industry expert. Which is why I’m right. I’m not mired in the details, the past failures, the what ifs or the buts. All I [...]

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