Cleantech & EV’s

In what could be a first, Tesla has reportedly publicly released the data logs from a customer’s vehicle involved in a crash that led the owner to protest at Tesla’s booth at the Shanghai Motor Show. Earlier this week, we reported on a Tesla owner protesting at the automaker’s booth at the Shanghai Motor show. She jumped on a display car to claim that Tesla’s “brakes are not…

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Tesla is creating a new team to accelerate use of new materials in its products and processes. This new move aims to capitalize on Tesla’s longtime focus on new materials science. For the last five years, Elon Musk has pushed Tesla and SpaceX to invest more in materials science. Through his “first principle” philosophy, Musk has been drawn to redesigning materials in order to solve…

As a pilot and electric vehicle enthusiast, I’ve been waiting for a larger cabin aircraft to emerge from all of the electric startups. Bye aircraft, which is named after its founder, George E. Bye, not the salutation, may have a winner in its new gorgeous turboprop-class eFlyer 800… The eFlyer 800, announced today, will have only one-fifth the operating costs of traditional twin turboprops…