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Michael Kanellos

Tesla Incentives Come to About $10M, Says Calif. Treasurer June 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM

Why is Tesla putting its sedan factory in California? There are ten million reasons.
The incentives provided by the State of California to the car company come to about $10 million dollars, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer told me. Most of the incentives come in the form of tax holidays. (I had to duck under some black [...]


Michael Kanellos

All-Electric Cars for Under $30K in Four Years, Says Tesla Founder June 30, 2008 at 1:15 PM

Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk is serious about getting beyond sports cars.
At a press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla co-founder and chairman Elon Musk said the company has an ongoing program to produce an all-electric car that will cost under $30,000. It probably take “four years at most” to get such a car [...]


Eric Wesoff

SVTC Part 2: A New and Crucial Piece of the PV Ecosystem June 30, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Scenario 1: Let’s say you’re a newly funded silicon solar startup and want to experiment in the wafer manufacturing process. You go to your VC investors and ask them for $25M to buy and install a small silicon wafer production line.
Scenario 2: Let’s say you’re a process development engineer at an existing, up and running [...]


Michael Kanellos

Tesla to Unfurl Sedan Strategy With Schwarzenegger June 30, 2008 at 8:20 AM

Tesla Motors will later today announce a “significant development” in their plans for a four-door passenger sedan, and the special guest is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
That could mean that Tesla will manufacture a significant portion of the car in California. Tesla, like a lot of green tech companies, has shopped around its plans for a factory to [...]


Daniel Englander

Exit Here, Mind the Gap: Part I June 30, 2008 at 5:07 AM

The second quarter sucked. For a lot of reasons. If you were a VC, it’s more than likely you woke up once or twice in a cold sweat wondering if those lignin-to-hydrogen and supercapacitor companies you funded were really the best place to put $80 million. And maybe for a brief moment this Saturday morning, [...]


Michael Kanellos

With SVTC, Getting Into Solar Biz Just Got Easier June 26, 2008 at 5:52 PM

First, Applied Materials made it easier for individuals to get into the solar business by offering to build them ready-to-run factories.
Now, SVTC Technologies, at one time a division of Cypress Semiconductor, is getting into the act. The company, which offers research and design services for chip makers, will now offer prototyping and research services for [...]


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