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Carlos Ghosn’s daughters see a Nissan revolt behind his arrest

Ghosn’s children said that they believed the houses were known to Nissan. The children of Carlos Ghosn, the jailed auto executive who oversaw an alliance that sold more than 10 million cars a year, believe accusations of financial misconduct against him are part of a revolt within Nissan against exploring a possible merger with Renault.… Continue reading Carlos Ghosn’s daughters see a Nissan revolt behind his arrest

Tesla Model 3 vs. Losing Luxury Gasmobiles … Tesla Model 3 Easter Egg Fun … How To Best Charge A Tesla — #CleanTechnica Top 20

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Published on December 17th, 2018 |

by Zachary Shahan

Tesla Model 3 vs. Losing Luxury Gasmobiles … Tesla Model 3 Easter Egg Fun … How To Best Charge A Tesla — #CleanTechnica Top 20

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December 17th, 2018 by Zachary Shahan

A Tesla Model 3 sales report, a Tesla Model 3 easter egg, and a note about how to best charge your Tesla overnight took home the gold, silver, and bronze medals this past week.

Also topping the charts: other Tesla news, other Tesla news, electric bike regulations, other Tesla news, and Tesla hypotheticals. Read on after the Tesla photo for more details and to read the most popular stories of last week here on CleanTechnica.

Tesla Model 3 Completely Crushing US Luxury Car Competition — 10 CleanTechnica Charts
Tesla Drops A New Model 3 Easter Egg, Hints At More On The Way
How Much Should You Charge Your Tesla Overnight To Keep Your Battery Healthy & Software Sane?
Tesla Gigafactory Pays Big Dividends For Nevada
Electric Bikes Are Triggering Mixed Regulatory Action Globally
UBS Declares That “Tesla Has Won The Race And Leads The Championship” With EVs
Forget Tesla Buying A GM Factory, Tesla Could Buy GM
Tesla’s Q4 Revenue, Earnings Per Share, & Deliveries — CleanTechnica Estimates & A Bet For Mr. Einhorn
Honda, NASA, & Caltech Claim Fluoride Battery Breakthrough
Canada Man Drives On Sunshine With Solar & His Tesla Model 3
The City Of Medford To Save $11,000 Per Year With New Rooftop Solar System
Breaking: Tesla Allows Use Of Referral Codes On European Model 3 Orders, But With A Twist
CleanTechnica Survey Respondents Love E-Bikes & Have Money: Part 2
Elon Musk Forced To Defend “An Incredible American Success Story” On 60 Minutes — Shame On You, CBS
Ch…Ch…Ch…Changes — How GM, Ford, & Volkswagen Are Reacting To The Electric Car Revolution
CleanTechnica Survey Respondents Love E-Bikes & Have Money: Part 1
8minutenergy Renewables Completes 328 Megawatt Solar Farm, Celebrates By Being Bought Out By Co-Founder
60 Minutes Should Release All Footage From Elon Musk Interview— Plus, More Context From Tesla & A Leaked Transcript
#Pravduh About #Tesla — 3 Month Review Of Top Publishers
Tesla Model S & Tesla Model X Hold Their Value Better Than Gasmobile Competitors

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Tesla adds Larry Ellison to its board

Tesla has appointed Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Walgreens Boots Alliance executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson to its board. The move further strengthens the board as pledged by founder Elon Musk to the Securities and Exchanges Commission. The SEC fined Mr Musk over misleading tweets that he had funding to take Tesla private. Investors greeted the news… Continue reading Tesla adds Larry Ellison to its board

Tesla names Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Walgreens executive to board as part of SEC settlement

Tesla has added two independent directors to its board, Oracle founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison and Walgreens executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, as part of a settlement with U.S. securities regulators over CEO Elon Musk’s infamous tweets about taking the company private. The pair joined the board as of December 27, Tesla said in an announcement early… Continue reading Tesla names Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Walgreens executive to board as part of SEC settlement

Grab raises fundraising target to $5B as Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing war heats up

Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab is aiming to start the new year with a bang and an awful load of bucks. The company, which acquired Uber’s local business earlier this year, is planning to raise as much as $5 billion from its ongoing Series H round, up from an original target of $3 billion, a source with… Continue reading Grab raises fundraising target to $5B as Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing war heats up

Can VinFast – Vietnam’s newest carmaker – succeed? – Top Gear

David Beckham is an icon in Vietnam. We know this because VinFast, Vietnam’s newest and actually only car maker, brought Beckham on stage at the launch of its first two cars at the Paris Motor Show. Along with Miss Vietnam. And you thought the casual decorative sexism of motorshows was dead… Anyway, regardless of whether you think… Continue reading Can VinFast – Vietnam’s newest carmaker – succeed? – Top Gear

Only 20% commercial vehicles respond to waiver scheme

Representative image. KOLKATA: The one-time traffic fine waiver scheme seems to have hit the right chord with private car owners but police say they have a long way to go to rein in commercial vehicles, which have a much larger pendency. Top Lalbazar sources hinted that the percentage of private vehicle owners, who responded to… Continue reading Only 20% commercial vehicles respond to waiver scheme

Fall of diesel: 10,000 to 15,000 jobs threatened in France

There will be no miracle. The fall of diesel in the Hexagon will cause breakage on the job. According to the Observatory of Metallurgy, between 10,000 and 15,000 industrial jobs are threatened by 2030, out of the 37,500 in the automotive sector. This is one of the conclusions of his prospective study on employment and… Continue reading Fall of diesel: 10,000 to 15,000 jobs threatened in France

Musk lets one rip in Tesla software update

Musk lets one rip in Tesla software updateFor those of you consumed with curiosity about how Elon Musk spends his spare time — and isn’t that everybody? — here’s a clue. He just rolled out an update to the software in Tesla cars allowing them to make farting noises on demand.
Yes, you read that, or heard that, right.
Tesla, the company, didn’t issue an announcement of the technological improvement, but Musk himself did, via his preferred medium for making important corporate announcements, Twitter.
Underscoring his stature as CEO who enjoys a rude joke as much as the 8-year-old sitting a couple of desks over, Musk pointed out that one of the six noises from which drivers can choose is labeled “short shorts ripper,” which he called “a thank you to Tesla short sellers … haha.”
The new rollout fits nicely within Musk’s apparent attention deficit disorder. Tesla still faces multiple questions about its ability to sustain profitability, especially by selling cars (the profit it declared in its latest quarterly report was heavily dependent on the trading of government air pollution credits and other maneuvers not directly related to sales of vehicles); about the level of demand for its cars; and about its ability to meet demand on the production line.
There are also questions about Musk’s devotion to Job One at Tesla, which is rolling out a mass-market version of its Model 3 sedan. Keeping Musk focused plainly is a chore that the Tesla board has failed to master. Just Tuesday, Musk took time out for a press event focused on a 1.14-mile underground tunnel designed as a prototype of a subway-like system to beat surface traffic in Los Angeles.
The tunnel was widely panned, including by my colleague Laura Nelson, who wrote that the tunnel surface was so uneven that a ride in a specially outfitted Tesla inside the tunnel “felt like riding on a dirt road.” And hers was one of the kinder judgments. (An amusing take by Albert Burneko of Deadspin is here, but be warned: profanity.
More to the point, the tunnel was not even a Tesla project, but the product of the Boring Co., a privately owned enterprise backed by Musk.
Also an open question is how Musk is complying with a settlement he reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission in September, after the agency sued him for a misleading, if not flagrantly inaccurate, tweet in August stating that he had “secured funding” to take Tesla private at $420 per share, a huge premium to its price at the time. (And still — the stock closed at $315.38 Thursday.)
Among other things, the settlement requires Tesla to oversee Musk’s tweeting, er, “put in place additional controls and procedures to oversee Musk’s communications.” There’s no evidence as yet that any such arrangement has been made, and Musk hinted in a recent interview with “60 Minutes” that he considered control over his tweets to be an infringement of his 1st Amendment rights.
One of Tesla’s technological selling points is the company’s ability to upgrade the cars’ functionality via over-the-air software revisions. In the past, these have been used to refine their self-driving capabilities and to improve their braking functionality (after Consumer Reports found that the Model 3’s braking distances were much worse than “any other contemporary car”).
The latest update is nothing like that. As TechCrunch reported this week, the so-called Emissions Testing Mode (get it?) allows the driver to opt for any of five different fart noises in addition to the “short shorts ripper.” The sounds are activated by the turn signal, or by pressing a scroll wheel on the steering column.
The latter is another dig at Tesla short sellers, whom Musk often blames for downdrafts in Tesla’s share price, despite the counsel of experienced market experts that movements in the stock, especially movements down, reflect legitimate skepticism about the company’s performance or prospects.
In any event, as a colleague observes, it should go without saying that “the best way to blow off short sellers is to build a strong business. And hold your farts until you do.”
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Tweets Superchargers Coming To 100% Of Europe In 2019

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Published on December 26th, 2018 |

by Steve Hanley

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Tweets Superchargers Coming To 100% Of Europe In 2019

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December 26th, 2018 by Steve Hanley

On the day after Christmas, Elon Musk took to Twitter to spread good news about electric cars, the Tesla Model 3, and the Supercharger network. “Most people don’t know that the Tesla Supercharger network allows easy long distance travel throughout USA, most of Europe, Canada and China,” he tweeted.

Do you know any other company that gives people a list of its competitors? Cuz we searched our archives down in the basement of the CleanTechnica World Headquarters building and couldn’t find any. We keep all those important files right next to the climate-controlled room where we keep the Vueve Clicquot Yellow Label champagne we serve after our weekly squash match.

Now that the Model 3 is headed to Europe, interested buyers are curious what Tesla and Elon Musk have up their sleeve with regard to building out the Supercharger system on the Old Continent. Paul Kelly, who lives in Ireland and is expecting delivery of a new Model X in 2 weeks, asked Elon that question directly and got the following reply.

Europe? Tesla Has You Covered. Texas, Too.

Well, naturally, that got the faithful fired up. Alejandro Zuboff tweeted from Texas to ask about coverage in his state.

Jim Roger Johansen wanted to know if the coastal highway in northern Norway would have a Supercharger station soon and got a “Yep” back from Elon.

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While most manufacturers are thinking about building charging networks for their electric cars — assuming they ever build any — Tesla is putting its money where its mouth is.

The takeaway is that Tesla is doing more than any other company in the world to make charging an EV simple and convenient. Yes, free Supercharging is a thing of the past or soon will be, but the company has said all along it does not intend to make charging a profit center. Even if folks wind up paying for the electricity they use, it will still cost about half as much as the gasoline needed to travel a given distance.

When it comes to electric cars, Tesla is King Of The Mountain. Everyone else is just playing Follow The Leader.

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