Cleantech & EV’s

Elon Musk has deleted a tweet in which he alluded to Tesla potentially becoming the world’s biggest company “in just a few months.” The SEC might be watching… Musk’s use of Twitter has been the subject of scrutiny from financial authorities for a while now. Most famously, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Musk over his infamous “funding…

The electric bicycle market in the US is being squeezed from multiple directions at once, forcing prices higher. That could threaten the increased rate of e-bike adoption at a time when e-bike sales have been soaring. The latest major e-bike manufacturer to announce a price increase in the United States is Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes. The largest e-bike company in North America is seeing a…

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled today that Tesla has violated labor laws by firing an employee over what they claim was union support and because of a questionable tweet that Elon Musk posted. A few years ago, Tesla was embroiled in an effort by United Auto Workers (UAW) to unionize the Fremont factory. Some employees alleged that Tesla embarked in some anti-union efforts…

California-based EV startup Drako Motors updated us on its test program ahead of the start of deliveries of its Drako GTE electric supercar. Scroll down for some impressive footage of the $1.2 million electric vehicle driving in the snow. We have been following Drako over the last two years. While the company’s first vehicle, the Drako GTE, doesn’t do much to accelerate EV adoption with a…