Cleantech & EV’s

Global climate- and green-tech accelerator Elemental Excelerator just announced its newest cohort of 19 tech companies it said would be “ground-breakers and market-makers.” Here are five up-and-comers in Cohort 9 in the green-tech energy, mobility, and climate change sectors. This year, the growth-stage companies selected by Elemental, which has offices in California and Hawaii, not only solve…

Tesla (TSLA) is attempting to increase production by over 17% quarter-over-quarter to produce 500,000 vehicles total in 2020, according to CEO Elon Musk in a newly leaked email. In a new email to employees, Musk stated that he sees Tesla reaching production of 500,000 vehicles in 2020: “It will be tough but super exciting if we can exceed 500,000 cars made in a single year for the first time…

A new electric SUV prototype has been spotted in Kansas City, where GM has an assembly factory and some operations. Could it be the next Cadillac electric? With a dozen new electric vehicles set to launch in the coming year, we are bound to see more prototypes testing on public roads in the coming months. An Electrek reader spotted one of those prototype EVs in Kansas City, Missouri this…

Tesla reportedly caught an employee engaging in “malicious sabotage” at its Fremont factory, according to an internal email to employees. Al Prescott, Tesla’s vice president of legal and acting general counsel, wrote in an email to Fremont factory employees obtained by Bloomberg: “Two weeks ago, our IT and InfoSec teams determined than [sic] an employee had maliciously sabotaged a part of…