ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES SOARING AROUND THE WORLD 2018 was a banner year for plug-in vehicles: global sales totaled 2.1 million units, a 64% increase compared to 2017. As a share of the overall light vehicle market, cars with plugs reached 2.2% for the year, and an impressive 3.8% for the month of December (as reported […]
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Canada’s Proposed $5,000 EV Incentive Excludes All Tesla Vehicles
NO TESLAS NEED APPLY FOR CANADA’S NEW $5,000 EV INCENTIVE Our neighbor to the north is encouraging its drivers to go electric. The Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia offer incentives for EV purchases, and various government-funded infrastructure projects are underway. Until now, however, there has been no federal purchase incentive like the $7,500 tax credit that US […]
Where Will EV Charging Stations Of The Future Be Located?
DRIVEWAYS, NOT GAS STATIONS, ARE THE EV FUELING STATIONS OF THE FUTURE The adoption of any new technology is a gradual process, and it always takes time for people to break free of their old ways of doing things. Early TV shows were basically filmed radio plays, and early web sites looked like magazine pages […]
Do The Math: This Tesla Model S Has An Effective Cost Of Just $5,060
CAN A TESLA END UP COSTING YOU ONLY FIVE GRAND? As any electric vehicle owner will explain, the higher purchase price of an EV is partially offset by the savings on fuel and maintenance, and for many buyers, by federal and state incentives. Tesla has always emphasized this fact – when you order a vehicle […]
Read An Excerpt From Hamish McKenzie’s Book About Elon Musk & Tesla
HOW ELECTRIC CARS CAN END THE AGE OF OIL An excerpt from Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish McKenzie.* To understand how electric cars can end the Age of Oil, you might want to visit a fast food restaurant. Oil may have dominated our economic times, […]
Story Behind One Of The Most Influential Tesla EVangelist’s Of Our Time
THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AN EV EVANGELIST WHO WON 4 TESLAS Yes, that’s correct, some lucky guy out there actually won four vehicles from Tesla including a Model X, two next-gen Roadsters, and a Model S. Don’t believe us? Check out the amazing story of Bjørn Nyland, a pioneering EV evangelist and world-famous YouTuber from Norway. *This article comes to us courtesy […]
This Tesla Mom Shares Her Cross-Country Road Trip Experiences
A ROAD-TRIPPING TESLA MOM TELLS ALL We never get tired of reading about Tesla road trips. There’s no better way to see our beautiful country than in an American car, powered by American electricity. The latest EV odyssey to cross our desk comes from the Baltimore Post-Examiner, which follows Tiffani Van Ee and her 7-year-old daughter Abbey on […]
Tesla’s Winter Testing Facility In Alaska Is Pretty Incredible
AN INSIDE LOOK AT TESLA’S WINTER TESTING FACILITY IN ALASKA When it comes to winter driving, electric vehicles have a couple of drawbacks, as CNET writer Tim Stevens, an EV owner who lives in a northern climate, knows from personal experience. Extreme temperatures, hot or cold, tend to have a negative effect on battery packs, […]
What Does This Oil Analyst Have To Say About Tesla, Elon Musk, & EVs?
OIL ANALYST CONSIDERS THE INDUSTRY IMPACT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES, TESLA AND THE ‘ELON MUSK EFFECT’ When will rising EV sales begin to cut into global demand for oil? It sure ain’t happening yet – as we discussed in an earlier article, over the past few years, the increasing popularity of trucks and SUVs has canceled out […]
Before Tesla & SpaceX, Elon Musk Was A Serial Entreprenuer
LONG BEFORE TESLA, ELON MUSK WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED ENTREPRENEUR Elon Musk’s world-changing accomplishments with Tesla and SpaceX, and his current net worth of around $16 billion, represent the culmination of a long career as an entrepreneur. As a recent article in Time points out, Musk’s road to fame and fortune was far from an overnight success story. […]
