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, [...]
Norway’s TH!NK Global has successfully tested a lithium ion battery pack made by EnerDel, a joint venture between Ener1 and Delphi. The companies installed and demonstrated the 27 kWh battery pack in a TH!NK City electric vehicle at TH!NK’s manufacturing facility in Indianopolis. Ener1 delivered three battery packs to TH!NK earlier this year, and the [...]
Up until this week, Ron Lloyd was the VP for Tesla’s White Star program. Lloyd joined Tesla in 2005 to head up the program’s vehicle manufacturing strategy, including the construction of a 150,000 square foot production facility near Albuquerque. The WhiteStar, which Tesla says will be available for sale by 2009 or 2010, is the [...]
Tesla Motors has a couple of problems looming on the horizon. First, the EV company is involved in a handful of legal actions involving IP theft and broken contracts. In February, Magna Powertrain sued Tesla for breach of contract, alleging the EV company failed to pay it for design and engineering work it perform on [...]
Automaker Nissan will announce plans today to launch an electric vehicle in the U.S. and Japan by 2010. In doing so, Nissan will be the first major automaker to bring an EV to the U.S. market. It will expand the line globally by 2012.
Nissan is also working with corporate partner Renault on developing an EV [...]
The IPO market for greentech companies has always been a little spotty. Between 2005 and 2007, only five greentech companies listed on the NASDAQ, “raising an average of $77 million each and reaching average post-IPO valuations of $245 million.” First Solar, which raised $400 million in its 2006 IPO, has so far been the great [...]
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Buildings are the George Harrison of green tech. Usually, it's the first two guys--solar and biofuels--that come to mind when the green tech gets debated. ...
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 ...
Despite the near daily hum telling us that we're in big trouble, sometimes we read something that makes us think: wow, we're in big trouble. ...
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