Cleantech & EV’s

Elon Musk made a new comment about being open to discuss a merger between Tesla and other automakers. The comment is interesting in the context that Tesla is now the world’s most valuable automaker by a wide margin, and the industry is in the middle of an extremely disruptive transition. While Tesla was never a subsidiary of another automaker, it did have partnerships with established…

Herbert Diess, the head of the Volkswagen group, has released a blog post discussing his effort to reform the giant automaker, including revealing ‘Mission T’, his plan to “catch up with Tesla”. It comes as the executive forced a vote of confidence over his leadership at Volkswagen. Diess came to Volkswagen from BMW in 2015 amidst the Dieselgate scandal and started a wide-ranging effort…

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Audi is returning to rally racing and doing it with an electric vehicle. The German automaker teased the new electric off-road prototype, which will first compete in the Dakar Rally in 2022. A while ago, Audi had a lot of success on the rally circuit with the infamous Group B rally cars, the Audi Sport Quattro S1. More recently, the automaker has stayed away from the sports and started…