June 12, 2014
Yesterday, (click here) there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo
Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed,
in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of
electric vehicle technology....
What does it take to get rid of petroleum based transportation? Perhaps Tesla can provide summer camp to auto industry engineers.
August 4, 2015
By Alisa Priddle
TRAVERSE CITY -- An executive for electric automaker Tesla Motors (click here) used a Michigan seminar Tuesday to take more shots at the traditional auto industry, describing competitive vehicles as "appliances" and bucking the trend by calling for more strident fuel-economy standards.
Diarmuid O'Connell, Tesla vice president of corporate and business development, described the automaker's high-priced electric cars as peerless in their styling, performance and charging capability.
He said he is surprised that there are only lower-performance vehicles in the marketplace and nothing to challenge the Model S. "In some respect, they are appliances, in terms of the way they look." Tesla, BMW and Nissan electric vehicles are the few exceptions, he said.
And if the rest of the industry can catch up to Tesla's technology, the California-based automaker is open to sharing its 480 global charging stations, including 209 in the U.S. Currently, the competition does not have vehicles that can handle the speed or power of Tesla's charging ability, he said....
