Tesla Model 3 Event Tonight!

Lisa Locke, VEVC Editor July 28, 2017 We’ve all been excitedly waiting for Tesla’s first mass-market all-electric vehicle, the Model 3. It was hinted at in Elon Musk’s 2006 Master Plan, and has been an integral part of Tesla’s Mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Between 400 and 500 thousand reservations have been placed since the Model…

Bollinger unveils new minimalist and badass-looking all-electric truck with up to 200 miles of range

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co, July 27, 2017 Today, Bollinger Motors unveiled what it calls a “no nonsense back-to-basics all-electric sport utility truck (SUT).” The minimalist-looking vehicle with sharp edges and bare interior will not be for everyone, but with a promised range of up to 200 miles and quite a few interesting features, it could check all the boxes of a lot…

UK to follow France in banning petrol and diesel cars by 2040 – going all electric

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co July 25, 2017   After France announced earlier this month that it plans on banning new petrol and diesel cars by 2040, now the British government is about to announce similar measures this week. The move is in reaction to increasingly poorer air quality in the country and especially in urban regions – like London. A government spokesman…

Virtually all automakers (except for Tesla) are asking China to slow down electric car mandate

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co July 13, 2017 The auto industry is once again attempting to slow down the rollout of electric vehicles. As we previously reported, China, the world’s biggest car market, has somewhat of an aggressive ZEV mandate that would force Automakers to have zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) represent 8% of new car sales as soon as 2018 and quickly ramp…

Tesla Powerpack to Enable Large Scale Sustainable Energy to South Australia

    The Tesla Team, tesla.com/blog July 6, 2017   Last September, a 50-year storm damaged critical infrastructure in the state of South Australia, causing a state-wide blackout and leaving 1.7 million residents without electricity. Further blackouts occurred in the heat of the Australian summer in early 2017. In response, the South Australian Government as a leader in renewable energy,…

Elon Musk: more than half of new vehicles will be electric and almost all autonomous in the US within 10 years

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co July 15, 2017 We have recently seen several projections about the adoption of electric vehicles from different companies and research groups, like Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg, and even OPEC. Most of them predict that about half of new vehicle production will be electric at some point between 2035 and 2040. Now Tesla CEO Elon Musk jumps in with…