Only China Has Scaled Manufacturing & Leading Practices For Rapid Low-Carbon Transformation – Part 4

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:15:50 +0000

For rapid low-carbon transformation, too many roads lead to China for comfort for many in the United States and Canada

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Tesla Secures Manufacturing License For Gigafactory 3 — Let’s Roll!

Credit to Author: Tim Dixon| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:00:34 +0000

Tesla has been able to get its manufacturing license for Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, China. With Tesla already demonstrating Chinese produced Model 3s to the Chinese press, this step is seen as the last official hurdle before Tesla officially begins production and starts the process of ramping up consumer cars “Made in China.”

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Chevrolet Menlo EV Debuts In China

Credit to Author: Tim Dixon| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 02:21:33 +0000

Chevrolet Menlo EV (GM Press Release)General Motors debuted the Chevrolet Menlo EV (Chinese name: 畅巡) in Hefei, Anhui, China, along with the internal combustion Chevrolet Blazer SUV, on the 8th of November,

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Tesla Gigafactory Economies of Scale Just Starting to Show in Tesla Financials

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2019 03:30:59 +0000

The biggest threat to Tesla’s existence has not been the so-called “Tesla Killers” from the competition, but rather Tesla’s dependence on the capital markets to fund its growth. The lack of sustained profits made the company rely on financial markets to raise equity and debt at regular intervals to fund its operations

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Volkswagen Announces Pre-Production At Chinese Electric Vehicle factory

Credit to Author: Tim Dixon| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 21:30:21 +0000

Volkswagen has announced that it has started pre-production of the Volkswagen ID at its first purely EV-focused factory in China

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GE Signs 715 Megawatt Wind Deal In China, Puts World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Into Service

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:17:18 +0000

GE onshore wind turbinesGeneral Electric Renewable Energy this week signed the largest onshore wind deal ever in China for a foreign manufacturer and began tests of its enormous Haliade X 12 MW offshore wind turbine in Rotterdam.

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Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm Discusses Elon Musk’s Audacious Goals (Video)

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:00:56 +0000

Elon Musk has often come in for criticism because of missed deadlines, over-ambitious forecasts, and, in a few cases, unfulfilled promises. It’s true that production dates for the company’s vehicles have often slipped, many owners are unhappy about delays in delivering Full Self-Driving capability, and the New York-to-Los Angeles driverless Odyssey, originally planned for late 2017, has yet to take place. Musk himself has admitted that he’s always had problems with timelines

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