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Big Auto Had The Ultimate Barriers To Entry — Then Tesla Broke Through

March 3, 2022 admin big auto, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gm, green economy, Manufacturing, tesla

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:13:02 +0000

Prior to the rise of Tesla, conventional wisdom held that it would be practically impossible for a startup company to challenge the behemoths of Big Auto. When economics professors explained the concept of barriers to entry, the auto industry was usually example #1. Selling cars in volume requires not only massive industrial resources, but a highly […]

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Elon’s Secret Sauce

February 19, 2020 admin batteries, big auto, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev sales, green economy, investment, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, software, tesla, tesla software

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:49:05 +0000

Elon Musk may be a showman and a visionary, but he is unfit to be a CEO. His run-ins with the SEC, intemperate tweets, and a catalogue of missed deadlines show that he does not have the character or the competence to run a major public company

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Like An Angel Is Pushing You From Behind

January 12, 2020 admin Audi, automakers, autonomous vehicles, batteries, big auto, BMW, cars, China, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, co2 emissions, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Europe, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev sales, GERMANY, green economy, investment, legacy automakers, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, netherlands, Norway, porsche, smartphone apps, tesla, US, vw

Credit to Author: Alex Voigt| Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:43:53 +0000

As a CEO of a large global automaker, you have a huge problem of existential dimensions. If you don’t solve it, it’s not just your job that’s lost, but you will be remembered as the person who is responsible for a century-long proud legacy ending

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Tesla (Competition) Deathwatch: The History of Atari

November 20, 2019 admin atari, automotive leasing, big auto, capital one, car leasing, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, depreciation, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ford, green economy, investment, legacy automakers, Manufacturing, mercedes, Nintendo, tesla, tesla (competition) deathwatch, vehicle depreciation

Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00:02 +0000

I wasn’t planning on writing a second article in this series so quickly, but I was reading through the comment section and felt compelled to write a response to cover some of those replies

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How Many Climate Activists Haven’t Bought A Tesla Because They’ve Been Tricked By Big Oil?

November 16, 2019 admin activism, big auto, big-oil, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate activists, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, Oil, tesla, tesla model 3

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:44:05 +0000

I’m a hardcore climate activist. I’ve been one for approximately 20 years (and writing that sure does make me feel old). I’m quite concerned that we are destroying the livability of this planet for human life and countless other species. Furthermore, I’ve got two young girls, and I’m certain their lives are going to be harder than mine due to more drought, agricultural failures, superstorms, more severe fires, climate-related diseases, flooding, and severe migration challenges. I’d like to do what I can to limit the challenges they will face in an increasingly unstable world

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How Hard Is It To Do What Tesla Has Done? Very.

November 6, 2019 admin big auto, cars, China, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Europe, ev sales, gm, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, market research, nio, research, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, tesla sales, United States

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:44:05 +0000

How hard can it be to build a great electric car? After all, a Silicon Valley startup, founded by a group of engineers with little or no experience in the auto industry, managed to produce a blockbuster automobile in a mere 10 years, and has now become the USA’s most valuable automaker. A couple of electric motors, some laptop batteries, a barrel full of chutzpah, and you’re in, right

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Future Gas Stations Will Not Have Gas

October 11, 2019 admin big auto, big-oil, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, ev charging, ev charging stations, gas stations, tesla, tesla superchargers

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:48:02 +0000

The year was 1908, the world’s first mass-produced affordable automobile drove onto comically scarce streets. The transition from horse-driven carriages to gas-powered autos was officially beginning. After some back and forth, electric and steam-powered options didn’t make it into the mainstream. In hindsight, gasoline probably wasn’t the best option for the environment, but we’re (finally) working on fixing that now

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Breakdown Of Interdependency Between Big Auto & Big Oil

October 9, 2019 admin big auto, big-oil, bp, clean power, clean transport, consumer technology, Electric vehicles, eni, equinor, ev charging, Fossil Fuels, green economy, Oil, Repsol, saft, shell, Solar energy, sunpower, tesla, total, wind energy

Credit to Author: Gerard Reid| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 03:59:05 +0000

Some years back I visited one of the major automobile manufacturers with some investor clients of mine. We met the CTO of that particular company, who asked us “what is the biggest mistake the automobile industry has made in the last century?” Despite the varied responses from the audience, we were all surprised by his answer: “We never controlled the fuel value chain” and to that he added “and we won’t make the same mistake with electric cars.”