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Story of the Week (DR):CEOs to the rescue?Trio Of Top CEOs Warn Trump Tariffs Will Empty Store ShelvesDuring a private meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, the CEOs of Walmart, Target and Home Depot reportedly told the president that supply chains could freeze and prompt stores' shelves to go barren if he doesn't rein in his sharp tariff plans, and meddles with the Federal Reserve.Target CEO Brian Cornell (25%): Mr. The Gay Pride Display Is Too Expensive Because THere are Too Many Colors (719:1)Home Depot CEO Ted Decker (25%): Mr. Charlie Munger Would Hate Him because He Got a BA in English (443:1)Walmart CEO Doug McMillon 6%: (They should have sent a Walton family member) Mr. Racism Was Solved So It's Time to Move on from DEI (976:1)Elon Musk says he's stepping back from DOGEElon Musk was supposed to work in government as a special employee for 130 days. He just pledged to spend ‘a day or two' per week for the remainder of Trump's 4-year termAfter spending three months trying to radically reshape the federal government and its workforce, Elon Musk on Tuesday said he would soon be stepping back from the White House DOGE office."Starting next month, I will be allocating far more of my time to Tesla," Musk said during Tesla's earnings call, adding that "the major work of establishing the Department of Government Efficiency" was done.Tesla profit drops 71% as carmaker warns ‘political sentiment' could impact future demandBusiness Roundtable urges SEC to amend proxy-voting process MMThe Securities and Exchange Commission should reform the proxy-voting process by making it more difficult for certain shareholder proposals to make it onto company proxy ballots, according to an April 23 report from the Business Roundtable.“The current state of the proxy process is unsustainable,” the advocacy group comprising more than 200 CEOs said in its report. “Companies are being forced to divert significant resources and attention toward responding to a flood of ideology-driven shareholder proposals — resources that would be better spent driving long-term value creation. These escalating costs ultimately fall on shareholders, yet there is little evidence that such proposals yield meaningful economic benefits.”Median US CEO pay hits record $16.8 million on soaring stock awardsMedian pay among top U.S. CEOs rose 7.5% to a record $16.8 million for 2024, a new study found, as big stock grants boosted leaders' reported earnings well beyond the pay received by U.S. workers. Study looked at 320 companies in the S&P 500 with pay data filed so far this yearESG Pope has died: Pope Francis Pushed ESG. How the Church's Investments Did.The Vatican's investments are generating a profit, perhaps from a renewed focus—led by the late pontiff—on social values aligned with the Catholic Church. Francis died on Monday at age 88 after a long health crisis.Goodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: Subaru Is Bringing Back Physical Knobs and Buttons in Its Cars MM DRDR: Twinkies' New Owner Courts a Novel Group of Snackers: StonersMM: Tesla whistleblower wins legal battle against Elon MuskAssholiest of the Week (MM):OpenAI DRWhen asked to generate assholes of the week, ChatGPT suggested as the FIRST ASSHOLE: OpenAI's “Safety Is Optional” StrategyLaunched GPT-4.1 with zero safety report—claiming it's not “frontier.”Updated its Preparedness Framework to say it might lower safety standards if rivals do.Former staff filed an amicus brief supporting Elon Musk's lawsuit, saying for-profit incentives undermine safety.Also stopped safety testing of fine-tuned models unless released openly.This is tech's version of “if the other kids jumped off a bridge...”In 2025… OpenAI updated its safety framework—but no longer sees mass manipulation and disinformation as a critical riskNot to be outdone by other college dropout middle school losers, OpenAI considering its own social network to compete with Elon Musk's XIt's not OpenAI, it's Sam Altman, college dropoutRemember when they had a board?Blaming ChinaElon Musk worries Chinese companies will fill out the world's top 10 robot makers—but claims Tesla is, and will stay, No. 1Google says DOJ's proposal for breakup would harm U.S. in 'global race with China'Trade war woes: Boeing stock sinks after China reportedly blocks plane deliveriesWispy stache middle school manflakes who are going to MAKE you like them, whether you want to or notDamion will rate whether these headlines make him finally like the techbro manflakes:Elon Musk Reportedly Sends DMs on Twitter Offering Women the Chance to Have His BabiesTesla really wants the Cybertruck to be a working man's truckElon 'rattled' as he's brutally trolled in gaming livestream from private jetHuge Number of People Who Used to Like Elon Musk Now Detest Him, Polling ShowsSomeone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His LifeMeta co-sponsors White House Easter Egg Roll amid blockbuster antitrust trialTrump lashes out at British hedge fund for betting against Truth SocialTrump Media wants the SEC to investigate a hedge fund that has a $105 million short on the companyJokes on you, LuigiUnitedHealth stock craters as CEO calls disappointing results 'unusual and unacceptable' (he blamed the Biden administration)UnitedHealth CEO's pay jumps 12% to $26.3M as company revenue hits record $400BUnitedHealth spent $1.7 million on executive securityRewriting historyI literally hate this: How Did Elon Musk Make His Money?“Many people would have simply taken this larger-than-life fortune and retired, but not Musk. Instead, he invested $100 million to start SpaceX, $70 million to found Tesla and $10 million in SolarCity.”HE DID NOT FOUND ITTesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc TarpenningThey built the first roadster and got fundedMusk INVESTED in Tesla in the Series A and became chair of the boardMusk didn't actually run the company - until he appointed himself CEO in 2007, four years after he initially invested and after he raised a lot of money for themMusk kicked out the actual founderEberhard actually SUED Musk because Musk refused, like a big fucking diaper baby, to acknowledge that Eberhard founded the companyEberhard actually built the first mobile charging devices for Teslas, tooThat's how he works - Musk raises money from friends and lies about what he actually does - he's a big fat fraud, just like with video gamesHeadliniest of the WeekDR: Priscilla Chan's tuition-free school that championed DEI is closing after 10 yearsIn a statement on its website, the Primary School didn't indicate why it was closing its East Bay and East Palo Alto locations at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year and said only that it was a "very difficult decision" that came "after much deliberation."DR: Ralph Lauren's CEO says sometimes employees need to be ‘hit by a 2×4 across the forehead' to get important feedback to sink in: Patrice Louvet DR MMMM: Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”Isn't this just saying “we wish the people we stole from to make the model were more conservative, so we'll just make it more that way”? Like, Zuck just doesn't like actual people?MM: Zuckerberg Encourages Theatergoers to Use Their Phones While Movie Is PlayingWho Won the Week?DR: Stoners: 4/20, Twinkies, and physical nobs in SubarusMM: Hall monitors - Roblox CEO says he wants to protect your kids — but you're going to need to pitch in, too.PredictionsDR: Business Roundtable urges SEC to adopt annual meeting rule requiring investors to memorize a unique 40-digit PIN that gains them entry into the meeting roomMM: Meta's oversight board rebukes company over policy overhaul - Meta said it will respond to oversight board's distress about community notes and policy shifts in 60 days. The prediction: Meta's response will be to shut down the oversight board. OVERSIGHT IS SO 2019.
While Elon Musk owes much of his wealth to Tesla, the truth is that he's not the company's founder. That honor goes to a pair of engineers named Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. We explore the origins of Tesla.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
#78. What happens when your business outgrows YOU? in today's episode, Sevana and Tiffany take on business lessons from the story of Martin Eberhard, American inventor, engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Tesla, Inc. (then Tesla Motors) and then was asked to leave. Topics in today's episode includes: - how to eliminate the roles or "hats" that you put on as owner-operator so you can be CEO of your own business - the importance of clarity for you and your ultimate role in your business References: Scaling Up - FACe Chart: https://coaches.scalingup.com/function-accountability-chart CNN Interview: https://youtu.be/QIt8WuEQntY?si=dRKg-i9trnsHhDhd Building a Skills Matrix: https://acquira.com/why-you-need-to-build-an-employee-skills-matrix-and-how-to-do-it/?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=How-To-Turn-An-Owner-Run-Business-Into-A-Management-Run-Business https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/02/26/how-to-stop-operating-your-business-and-start-owning-it/?sh=36dc9a9e16ff https://www.cleanlink.com/cp/article/Growing-Out-Of-The-Owner-Operator-Role--2476 https://www.theverge.com/23815634/tesla-elon-musk-origin-founder-twitter-land-of-the-giants https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/061915/story-behind-teslas-success.asp#:~:text=In%202001%2C%20Eberhard%20and%20Tarpenning,founded%20an%20online%20payments%20company. https://innovators.berkeley.edu/spotlights/co-founder-marc-tarpenning-85-shows-off-teslas-baby-pictures/ https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 ************************ Our podcast is originally a video podcast, so see us on YouTube or Spotify too. ************************ Got questions or have a topic you want Sevana and Tiffany to cover? Email us at thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness@gmail.com and see your question answers or topic of interest discussed on a future episode! **************************** About BBSB - We are two business owners with two very different perspectives on building business, and the business behind that in order to achieve your goals. One of us built to sell, and will continue on the serial entrepreneur path, which means your focus and drive should include very particular tools and tips in order to achieve your goal. The other, is building a generational business, one that can go on long after she's let go of the wheel. This type of business also requires very specific tools and platforms to achieve this goal. Both women have been successful in their own right, but in honesty - haven't scratched the surface! Sponsorship Opportunities - Email us here: thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness@gmail.com Website - Check out our website! https://www.thebusinessbehindsmallbusiness.com Notice - As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. These earnings contribute towards the costs of creating this podcast and we greatly appreciate your support! Disclaimer - Details of today's story was inspired by true events but are not based on proven facts. Also, we are NOT licensed financial experts, nor do we give financial advice. Anything we share with you here on our podcast, whether it be a personal experience or submission, or advice/tips that have worked for us, or that we believe would work for you should not be viewed as either financial, business, or tax advice. We ask for you to do your research, have open and honest conversations with your company's own support providers and make decisions based upon that. Throughout this broadcast we will share our knowledge and give suggestions and hope you will receive them as part of your overall research to better your own company.
Dit bedrijf houdt de namen van z'n elektrische auto's simpel door voor bijna elk model het woord ‘model' te zetten. Het gaat natuurlijk over Tesla! In deze aflevering van Doorgelicht richten journalist Nina van den Dungen en analist Jim Tehupuring de schijnwerper op de grootste elektrische autofabrikant ter wereld zodat jij als belegger kan bepalen wat een Tesla-aandeel nou écht waard is. Nina kijkt terug naar de hobbelige ontstaansgeschiedenis en Jim doet een fundamentele analyse. Het bedrijf Tesla is de grootste elektrische autofabrikant ter wereld. Het hoofdkantoor staat in Kansas Texas met aan het roer de alom bekende CEO Elon Musk. Hoewel het bedrijf vooral bekend is van de elektrische auto's zoals de Model X, Y en S, is Tesla tegenwoordig ook actief op energieopslagsystemen- en zonnedakenmarkt. Tesla, Inc. - toen Tesla Motors Incorporated - werd in 2003 opgericht door de Amerikaanse uitvinder Martin Eberhard en ingenineur Marc Tarpenning. De twee hadden de visie om een elektrische sportwagen op de markt te brengen die volwaardig op kon boxen tegen de Ferarri's en Lamborghini's met verbrandingsmotoren. Investeerders zagen al snel brood in het idee, waaronder Elon Musk die met een investering van 7,5 miljoen dollar instapte. Na flink wat financiële tegenvallers interne problemen en het aftreden van de oprichters, rolt de allereerste elektrische sportwagen in 2008 van de band: de Tesla Roadster. Het was de eerste elektrische auto die gebruikmaakte van een lithium-ion-accu-pakket, een batterijtype die tegenwoordig in zo'n beetje ieder elektrisch apparaat te vinden is. Door de batterij had het voertuig een actieradius van bijna 400 kilometer, een primeur in die tijd. Toch zorgde de Roadster niet voor groene cijfers bij Tesla, die kwamen pas in 2020 na de introductie van de Tesla Model Y. Sindsdien groeit de winst van het bedrijf exponentieel dankzij flinke productie-uitbreidingen wereldwijd. Tegenwoordig is Tesla lang niet meer slechts een elektrische autofabrikant. Zo investeerde het bedrijf in 2016 bijvoorbeeld miljarden dollars in SolarCity, een zonnepanelenfabrikant. Daaruit ontstond een Tesla-divisie die tegenwoordig zonnepaneeldakpannen ontwikkelt, nieuwe batterijtypen uitvindt en meer. Ook houdt het bedrijf zich sinds kort bezig met robotica. De fundamentele analyse Bij Tesla rijden we onder andere langs de omzet, de winst, de marges en het (afwezige) dividend. Ook kijken verder dan de cijfers, we focussen onder andere op de productieketen, de merkwaarde en het bestuur van Tesla. De presentatoren Nina van den Dungen is journalist en presentatrice bij BNR Nieuwsradio. Als echte verhalenverteller vertelt ze je alles over ontstaansgeschiedenis van bedrijven. Jim Tehupuring is analist en vermogensbeheerder bij 1Vermogensbeheer. Met een flink dossier aan kennis en jarenlange ervaring in de financiële wereld, analyseert hij bedrijven in begrijpelijke taal. Over Doorgelicht In Doorgelicht richten Nina van den Dungen en Jim Tehupuring de schijnwerper op de bedrijven achter je favoriete aandelen zodat jij als belegger kan bepalen wat ze nou écht waard zijn. Disclaimer De inhoud van Doorgelicht is geen financieel advies. Beleg altijd op basis van je eigen overwegingen en onderzoek. Redactie Niels KooloosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Not the new one, sorry This isn't the new Musk biography everyone's talking about. This is the 2015 Musk biography by Ashlee Vance. I started reading it in July, before I knew there was a new one. It's fine: Musk never changes. He's always been exactly the same person he is now I read the book to try to figure out who that was. Musk is a paradox. He spearheaded the creation of the world's most advanced rockets, which suggests that he is smart. He's the richest man on Earth, which suggests that he makes good business decisions. But we constantly see this smart, good-business-decision-making person make seemingly stupid business decisions. He picks unnecessary fights with regulators. Files junk lawsuits he can't possibly win. Abuses indispensable employees. Renames one of the most recognizable brands ever. Musk creates cognitive dissonance: how can someone be so smart and so dumb at the same time? To reduce the dissonance, people have spawned a whole industry of Musk-bashing, trying to explain away each of his accomplishments: Peter Thiel gets all the credit for PayPal, Martin Eberhard gets all the credit for Tesla, NASA cash keeps SpaceX afloat, something something blood emeralds. Others try to come up with reasons he's wholly smart - a 4D chessmaster whose apparent drunken stumbles lead inexorably to victory. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, And The Quest For A Fantastic Future delights in its refusal to resolve the dissonance. Musk has always been exactly the same person he is now, and exactly what he looks like. He is without deception, without subtlety, without unexpected depths. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk
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It's a big week in sport and news and sports news with Kobe Bryant accused of rape, Chelsea FC being sold to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and SARs being declared contained by the World Health Organisation. In technology news Tesla, the electric car company, is founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, it would be another five years before Elon Musk becomes their chairman. In music news Beyonce enters the top five, Delta goes to number one in Australia, Ashanti releases Chapter 2 and Lollapalooza returns from a six year hiatus. Notable headliners included Janes Addiction, Queens of The Stone Age, Incubus, Audioslave and Jurassic 5. At the movies Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Lui reprise their roles as angels for Charlies Angels Full Throttle.The Forbes Celebrity 100 names Jennifer Anniston as top dog, everyone wants to have a Second Life online and James Patterson releases the Lake House, complete with bird children.Confused? Same here! There's all that and so much more this week in T Minus 20. Hang with us on socials to chat more noughties nostalgia - Facebook (@tminus20) or Instagram (tminus20podcast). You can also contact us there if you want to be a part of the show.
Marc Tarpenning, along with Martin Eberhard, was the cofounder of Tesla Motors back in 2003. But before that, Tarpenning and Eberhard were also the cofounders of NuvoMedia, which produced one of the world's first ebook devices, the rocket eBook. So, for the first part of the episode, Mark recounts the story of NuvoMedia and then about 25 minutes in we begin the founding of Tesla, in my opinion, perhaps the most amazing startup story of the last 20 years.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Tesla es reconocida en todo el mundo y asociada al nombre de Elon MuskPero en realidad fueron Marc Tarpenning junto con el ingeniero Martin Eberhard quienes iniciaron la historia de la marca
#elonmusk #tesla #teslamotors Elon Musk está desatado en Twitter, saltándose acuerdos judiciales, pactos y normas. La enésima y antepenúltima polémica del magnate es a propósito de su relación con Martin Eberhard, uno de los fundadores de Tesla Motors, y probablemente la persona que realmente fundó la empresa Sin embargo, de una manera sutil, los legítimamente denominados fundadores de la empresa acusan a Elon Musk de querer reescribirla. Los orígenes de Tesla son una historia de emprendimiento llena de problemas y sinsabores, y también un capítulo más apasionante de emprendimiento en el que varios jóvenes con el bolsillo lleno gracias a la venta de sus proyectos en el boom de las “.com” deciden desarrollar un coche eléctrico tomando el relevo del GM EV1. En este podcast te explico la verdadera historia del origen de Tesla motors, cuál es el papel de cada cual, e incluso cómo, en un momento dado de ruptura total, se tuvo que acordar judicialmente incluso cuál era el relato oficial sobre la creación de Tesla motors. Un relato y un acuerdo que en los últimos días parece que ha saltado, otra vez, por los aires. Mis Aparatos y equipos imprescindibles para trabajar y vivir: https://www.amazon.es/shop/juanfranciscocalero-clubonmotor Apóyame para hacer más y mejores vídeos en PATREON. Sé mi mentor: https://www.patreon.com/jfcalero Sígueme en INSTAGRAM, TWITTER o AMBAS, súperfácil: @jfcalero No te vayas a la cama sin saber algo más, o al menos sin saber algo nuevo. Si lo hiciste, misión cumplida, gracias por acompañarme. Puedes ver el video correspondiente a este podcast en el siguiente enlace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VziVortGhac&
Did you know that Elon Musk is not a founder of Tesla? That honor belongs to Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, longtime clients of our guest, attorney Mark Cameron White. White shares stories and wisdom from decades of practicing law in Silicon Valley and around the world. He talks about the importance of building a collective dream for a startup, how battle scars can cause bitterness or strength, and the way most entrepreneurs build wealth in Silicon Valley. He also offers his opinions regarding the three currencies of Silicon Valley, the right amount of time to take off after a liquidity event, and why true entrepreneurs are happiest laying the foundation of their company. We discuss the delicate balance between funding your company and supporting your family, and Joyce shares tips for protecting your assets and avoiding financial surprises when starting a company. Mark White's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-franklin-0423a91 (Joyce Franklin's LinkedIn) https://www.jlfwealth.com/podcast/ (Request a copy of The Four Phases of Startup Life and the Entrepreneur's Wheel of Life)
Elon Musk a fait de Tesla une entreprise exceptionnelle. Une entreprise qui a changé toute une industrie, l'industrie automobile. Voici l'histoire de Tesla à travers les yeux d'Elon Musk. Tout commence en 2002. Elon est à peine sorti de l'histoire Paypal et il vient de lancer SpaceX. Mais il rêve d'autres projets autour de l'électrique. Il rencontre alors JB Straubel, un passionné de voitures électriques qui lui fait découvrir un modèle de voiture électrique avec un moteur de batterie Lithium-ion. Oui des batteries d'ordinateur mises en série. Elon veut racheter cette voiture à l'association, AC Propulsion. Mais l'association refuse. Puis en parallèle, Martin Eberhard et son associé, Martin Tarpenning créent Tesla Motors en 2003 avec l'idée de démocratiser la voiture électrique. Tesla faisant référence à l'ingénieur serbe, Nikola Tesla, injustement reconnu. Les 2 fondateurs ont certes des moyens mais ils ont aussi besoin d'investisseurs et finissent par ouvrir leur porte à Elon Musk. Celui-ci devient rapidement le 1er investisseur et le président de la société. Avec Straubel, puis Dave Lyon, Tesla recrute des passionnés de la voiture électrique. Et en quelques mois, ils font des miracles et ont déjà un 1er prototype. Un voiture montée avec un chassis de Lotus. Mais les batteries sont un problème… et explosent même lors d'un test. En 2006, Tesla annonce lancer un Roadster avec un grand renfort de publicité lors d'une soirée. 100km/h en 4 secondes. Les journaux tressent des lauriers. Mais personne ne parle de Musk qui n'est qu'investisseur. Pourtant les problèmes s'accumulent pour Tesla et Martin Eberhard qui n'a pas la stature d'un CEO. Musk découvre que le prix de fabrication de la voiture dépasse les 150 000 $ alors qu'elle est vendue… 100 000. $. Martin Eberhard est débarqué de son poste et quitte l'entreprise quelques mois plus tard. Musk finira par prendre la tête de l'entreprise en octobre 2008. Entre temps, il n'y a plus d'argent car Tesla n'a pas réussi à sortir de voiture avant 2008… mais les commandes sont énormes et la production faible. Il faudra attendre la construction des modèles S et X puis 3 pour voir Tesla commencer à produire en quantité. Mais c'est surtout l'entrée en bourse, le financement de Daimler puis Toyota et enfin de l'état qui permettent à Tesla de se financer. Tesla aujourd'hui est un succès mondial et est valorisée à 1000 milliard $. Ils sortent leurs modèles avec une régularité impressionnante. Le modèle S a été élu voiture de l'année par les spécialistes de l'automobile. Oui, la voiture électrique est devenue Sexy… et Musk l'homme le plus riche du monde. Le podcast "Il était une fois l'entrepreneur" est l'ex podcast "l'apprenti", le podcast des histoires d'entrepreneurs. Inspire Média, le média des histoires d'entreprises et d'entrepreneurs. Notes Elon Musk: Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX : l'entrepreneur qui va changer le monde - Ashlee Vance - Eyrolles Comment les problèmes de production de la Model 3 plombent les résultats de Tesla Tesla : encore des problèmes de production de la Model 3 Tesla : la capitalisation dépasse 700 milliards de dollars, une première Les difficultés industrielles de Tesla perdurent
History of the American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Palo Alto, California, United States. Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services.
When it comes to climate tech companies, there's only one name that's known around the world: Tesla.Tesla has arguably been the defining climate tech success story of the 21st century, driving demand for electric vehicles and becoming one of the world's most valuable companies.When people think of the person behind Tesla, they think of Elon Musk. But Musk wasn't there from the very beginning — he was an early investor in the company, and didn't become CEO until five years after its founding. Martin Eberhard was there from the start. And as co-founder and founding CEO, he'd already spent years building a new kind of electric car that people would actually want to drive.Martin started Tesla with his co-founder Marc Tarpenning in 2003 during the dark ages of electric cars. Automakers had lobbied against policies promoting EVs in the 90s, and then killed their own battery-powered models. It took years of trial and error before Tesla hit the scene with the first Roadster.Martin's time as CEO came to an end in 2007, when he was unceremoniously kicked out of the position by Tesla's board. But he left his mark on the EV world.Emily Kirsch spoke with Martin about his long history as an entrepreneur, the origins of Tesla, cobbling together the parts for Tesla's first EV prototype, and blowing up batteries in his yard.Watt It Takes is brought to you by Google. Google is pioneering the electricity systems of the future with its effort to source 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030 — so that everyone can have round-the-clock, carbon-free energy everywhere they operate, in every hour of the day. Learn more.Watt It Takes is also brought to you by Nextracker. Nextracker is advancing the connected power plant of the future across five continents.Powerhouse partners with leading corporations to help them lead the next century of clean technology innovation. Powerhouse Ventures backs founding teams building innovative software to rapidly transform our global energy and mobility systems. You can learn more about Powerhouse at powerhouse.fund.To hear more stories of founders building our carbon-free future, hit the “subscribe” button and leave us a review.
Elon Musk is one of the world's richest men. As CEO of Tesla, he has made the company the world's largest automaker by capitalization. Yet Tesla hasn't always been an automotive giant and Musk hasn't even always been its CEO. Tesla was founded as Tesla Motors in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Not long after, PayPal co-founder Musk joined the team, contributing millions of his own money, as well as convincing some powerful Silicon Valley types to invest. By 2007, Tesla Motors had over $105 million (¥11.5 billion) in investments. Tesla Motors' first project was the Roadster, a fully electric sports car that ran on the same standard lithium-ion batteries found in rechargeable devices. Released in 2008, the Roadster was hailed as a feat of engineering. Despite this, Tesla Motors had financial problems, though these were solved with a $465 million (¥50.1 billion) loan from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2009. In 2012, Tesla Motors released the Model S, the best-selling plug-in electric car of the time. Not long after, the firm introduced Supercharger stations (now called Tesla Stations), which quickly charge Tesla car batteries for free. (Jasmin Hayward) To be continued… This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.
Tesla Most early stage startups have, and so seemingly need, heroic efforts from brilliant innovators working long hours to accomplish impossible goals. Tesla certainly had plenty of these as an early stage startup and continues to - as do the other Elon Musk startups. He seems to truly understand and embrace that early stage startup world and those around him seem to as well. As a company grows we have to trade those sprints of heroic output for steady streams of ideas and quality. We have to put development on an assembly line. Toyota famously put the ideas of Deming and other post-World War II process experts into their production lines and reaped big rewards - becoming the top car manufacturer in the process. Not since the Ford Model T birthed the assembly line had auto makers seen as large an increase in productivity. And make no mistake, technology innovation is about productivity increases. We forget this sometimes when young, innovative startups come along claiming to disrupt industries. Many of those do, backed by seemingly endless amounts of cash to get them to the next level in growth. And the story of Tesla is as much about productivity in production as it is about innovative and disruptive ideas. And the story is as much about a cult of personality as it is about massive valuations and quality manufacturing. The reason we're covering Tesla in a podcast about the history of computers is at the heart of it, it's a story about the startup culture clashing head-on with decades-old know-how in an established industry. This happens with nearly every new company: there are new ideas, an organization is formed to support the new ideas, and as the organization grows, the innovators are forced to come to terms with the fact that they have greatly oversimplified the world. Tesla realized this. Just as Paypal had realized it before. But it took a long time to get there. The journey began much further back. Rather than start with the discovery of the battery or the electric motor, let's start with the GM Impact. It was initially shown off at the 1990 LA Auto Show. It's important because Alan Cocconi was able to help take some of what GM learned from the 1987 World Solar Challenge race using the Sunraycer and start putting it into a car that they could roll off the assembly lines in the thousands. They needed to do this because the California Air Resources Board, or CARB, was about to require fleets to go 2% zero-emission, or powered by something other than fossil fuels, by 1998 with rates increasing every few years after that. And suddenly there was a rush to develop electric vehicles. GM may have decided that the Impact, later called the EV1, proved that the electric car just wasn't ready for prime time, but the R&D was accelerating faster than it ever had before then. That was the same year that NuvoMedia was purchased by Gemstar-TVGuide International for $187 million. They'd made the Rocket eBook e-reader. That's important because the co-founders of that company were Martin Eberhard, a University of Illinois Champaign Urbana grad, and Marc Tarpenning. Alan Cocconi was able to take what he'd learned and form a new company, called AC Propulsion. He was able to put together a talented group and they built a couple of different cars, including the tZero. Many of the ideas that went into the first Tesla car came from the tZero, and Eberhard and Tarpenning tried to get Tom Gage and Cocconi to take their tZero into production. The tZero was a sleek sportscar that began life powered by lead-acid batteries that could get from zero to 60 in just over four seconds and run for 80-100 miles. They used similar regenerative braking that can be found in the Prius (to oversimplify it) and the car took about an hour to charge. The cars were made by hand and cost about $80,000 each. They had other projects so couldn't focus on trying to mass produce the car. As Tesla would learn later, that takes a long time, focus, and a quality manufacturing process. While we think of Elon Musk as synonymous with Tesla Motors, it didn't start that way. Tesla Motors was started in 2003 by Eberhard, who would serve as Tesla's first chief executive officer (CEO) and Tarpenning, who would become the first chief financial officer (CFO), when AC Propulsion declined to take that tZero to market. Funding for the company was obtained from Elon Musk and others, but they weren't that involved at first. Other than the instigation and support. It was a small shop, with a mission - to develop an electric car that could be mass produced. The good folks at AC Propulsion gave Eberhard and Tarpenning test drives in the tZero, and even agreed to license their EV Power System and reductive charging patents. And so Tesla would develop a motor and work on their own power train so as not to rely on the patents from AC Propulsion over time. But the opening Eberhard saw was in those batteries. The idea was to power a car with battery packs made of lithium ion cells, similar to those used in laptops and of course the Rocket eBooks that NuvoMedia had made before they sold the company. They would need funding though. So Gage was kind enough to put them in touch with a guy who'd just made a boatload of money and had also recommended commercializing the car - Elon Musk. This guy Musk, he'd started a space company in 2002. Not many people do that. And they'd been trying to buy ICBMs in Russia and recruiting rocket scientists. Wild. But hey, everyone used PayPal, where he'd made his money. So cool. Especially since Eberhard and Tarpenning had their own successful exit. Musk signed on to provide $6.5 million in the Tesla Series A and they brought in another $1m to bring it to $7.5 million. Musk became the chairman of the board and they expanded to include Ian Wright during the fundraising and J.B. Straubel in 2004. Those five are considered the founding team of Tesla. They got to work building up a team to build a high-end electric sports car. Why? Because that's one part of the Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan. That's the title of a blog post Musk wrote in 2006. You see, they were going to build a high-end hundred thousand dollar plus car. But the goal was to develop mass market electric vehicles that anyone could afford. They unveiled the prototype in 2006, selling out the first hundred in three weeks. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's cousins, Peter and Lyndon Rive started a company called SolarCity in 2006, which Musk also funded. They merged with Tesla in 2016 to provide solar roofs and other solar options for Tesla cars and charging stations. SolarCity, as with Tesla, was able to capitalize on government subsidies and growing to become the third most solar installations in homes with just a little over 6 percent of the market share. But we're still in 2006. You see, they won a bunch of awards, got a lot of attention - now it was time to switch to general production. They worked with Lotus, a maker of beautiful cars that make up for issues with quality production in status, beauty, and luxury. They started with the Lotus Elise, increased the wheelbase and bolstered the chassis so it could hold the weight of the batteries. And they used a carbon fiber composite for the body to bring the weight back down. The process was slower than it seems anyone thought it would be. Everyone was working long hours, and they were burning through cash. By 2007, Eberhard stepped down as CEO. Michael Marks came in to run the company and later that year Ze'ev Drori was made CEO - he has been given the credit by many for tighting things up so they could get to the point that they could ship the Roadster. Tarpenning left in 2008. As did others, but the brain drain didn't seem all that bad as they were able to ship their first car in 2008, after ten engineering prototypes. The Roadster finally shipped in 2008, with the first car going to Musk. It could go for 245 miles a charge. 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds. A sleek design language. But it was over $100,000. They were in inspiration and there was a buzz everywhere. The showmanship of Musk paired with the beautiful cars and the elites that bought them drew a lot of attention. As did the $1 million in revenue profit they earned in July of 2009, off 109 cars shipped. But again, burning through cash. They sold 10% of the company to Daimler AG and took a $465 million loan from the US Department of Energy. They were now almost too big to fail. They hit 1,000 cars sold in early 2010. They opened up to orders in Canada. They were growing. But they were still burning through cash. It was time to raise some serious capital. So Elon Musk took over as CEO, cut a quarter of the staff, and Tesla filed for an IPO in 2010, raising over $200 million. But there was something special in that S-1 (as there often is when a company opens the books to go public): They would cease production of the Roadster making way for the next big product. Tesla cancelled the Roadster in 2012. By then they'd sold just shy of 2,500 Roadsters and been thinking through and developing the next thing, which they'd shown a prototype of in 2011. The Model S started at $76,000 and went into production in 2012. It could go 300 miles, was a beautiful car, came with a flashy tablet-inspired 17 inch display screen on the inside to replace buttons. It was like driving an iPad. Every time I've seen another GPS since using the one in a Model S, I feel like I've gotten in a time machine and gone back a decade. But it had been announced in 2007to ship in 2009. And then the ship date dropped back to 2011 and 2012. Let's call that optimism and scope creep. But Tesla has always eventually gotten there. Even if the price goes up. Such is the lifecycle of all technology. More features, more cost. There are multiple embedded Ubuntu operating systems controlling various parts of car, connected on a network in the car. It's a modern marvel and Tesla was rewarded with tons of awards and, well, sales. Charging a car that runs on batteries is a thing. So Tesla released the Superchargers in 2012, shipping 7 that year and growing slowly until now shipping over 2,500 per quarter. Musk took some hits because it took longer than anticipated to ship them, then to increase production, then to add solar. But at this point, many are solar and I keep seeing panels popping up above the cars to provide shade and offset other forms of powering the chargers. The more ubiquitous chargers become, the more accepting people will be of the cars. Tesla needed to produce products faster. The Nevada Gigafactory was begun in 2013, to mass produce battery packs and components. Here's one of the many reason for the high-flying valuation Tesla enjoys: it would take dozens if not a hundred factories like this to transition to sustanable energy sources. But it started with a co-investment between Tesla and Panasonic, with the two dumping billions into building a truly modern factory that's now pumping out close tot he goal set back in 2014. As need increased, Gigafactories started to crop up with Gigafactory 5 being built to supposedly go into production in 2021 to build the Semi, Cybertruck (which should begin production in 2021) and Model Y. Musk first mentioned the truck in 2012 and projected a 2018 or 2019 start time for production. Close enough. Another aspect of all that software is that they can get updates over the air. Tesla released Autopilot in 2014. Similar to other attempts to slowly push towards self-driving cars, Autopilot requires the driver to stay alert, but can take on a lot of the driving - staying within the lines on the freeway, parking itself, traffic-aware cruise control, and navigation. But it's still the early days for self-driving cars and while we make think that because the number of integrated circuits doubles every year that it paves the way to pretty much anything, no machine learning project I've ever seen has gone as fast as we want because it takes years to build the appropriate algorithms and then rethink industries based on the impact of those. But Tesla, Google through Waymo, and many others have been working on it for a long time (hundreds of years in startup-land) and it continues to evolve. By 2015, Tesla had sold over 100,000 cars in the life of the company. They released the Model X that year, also in 2015. This was their first chance to harness the power of the platform - which in the auto industry is when there are multiple cars of similar size and build. Franz von Holzhausen designed it and it is a beautiful car, with falcon-wing doors, up to a 370 mile range on the battery and again with the Autopilot. But harnessing the power of the platform was a challenge. You see, with a platform of cars you want most of the parts to be shared - the differences are often mostly cosmetic. But the Model X only shared a little less than a third of the parts of the Model S. But it's yet another technological marvel, with All Wheel Drive as an option, that beautiful screen, and check this out - a towing capacity of 5,000 pounds - for an electric automobile! By the end of 2016, they'd sold over 25,000. To a larger automaker that might seem like nothing, but they'd sell over 10,000 in every quarter after that. And it would also become the platform for a mini-bus. Because why not. So they'd gone lateral in the secret plan but it was time to get back at it. This is where the Model 3 comes in. The Model 3 was released in 2017 and is now the best-selling electric car in the history of the electric car. The Model 3 was first shown off in 2016 and within a week, Tesla had taken over 300,000 reservations. Everyone I talked to seemed to want in on an electric car that came in at $35,000. This was the secret plan. That $35,000 model wouldn't be available until 2019 but they started cranking them out. Production was a challenge with Musk famously claiming Tesla was in “Production Hell” and sleeping on an air mattress at the factory to oversee the many bottlenecks that came. Musk thought they could introduce more robotics than they could and so they' slowly increased production to first a few hundred per week then a few thousand until finally almost hitting that half a million mark in 2020. This required buying Grohmann Engineering in 2017, now called Tesla Advanced Automation Germany - pumping billions into production. But Tesla added the Model Y in 2020, launching a crossover on the Model 3 platform, producing over 450,000 of them. And then of course they decided to the Tesla Semi, selling for between $150,000 and $200,000. And what's better than a Supercharger to charge those things? A Megacharger. As is often the case with ambitious projects at Tesla, it didn't ship in 2020 as projected but is now supposed to ship, um, later. Tesla also changed their name from Tesla Motors to Tesla, Inc. And if you check out their website today, solar roofs and solar panels share the top bar with the Models S, 3, X, and Y. SolarCity and batteries, right? Big money brings big attention. Some good. Some bad. Some warranted. Some not. Musk's online and sometimes nerd-rockstar persona was one of the most valuable assets at Tesla - at least in the fundraising, stock pumping popularity contest that is the startup world. But on August 7, 2018, he tweeted “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” The SEC would sue him for that, causing him to step down as chairman for a time and limit his Twitter account. But hey, the stock jumped up for a bit. But Tesla kept keeping on, slowly improving things and finally hit about the half million cars per year mark in 2020. Producing cars has been about quality for a long time. And it needs to be with people zipping around as fast as we drive - especially on modern freeways. Small batches of cars are fairly straight-forward. Although I could never build one. The electric car is good for the environment, but the cost to offset carbon for Tesla is still far greater than, I don't know, making a home more energy efficient. But the improvements in the technology continue to increase rapidly with all this money and focus being put on them. And the innovative designs that Tesla has deployed has inspired others, which often coincides with the rethinking of entire industries. But there are tons of other reasons to want electric cars. The average automobile manufactured these days has about 30,000 parts. Teslas have less than a third of that. One hopes that will some day be seen in faster and higher quality production. They managed to go from producing just over 18,000 cars in 2015 to over 26,000 in 2016 to over 50,000 in 2017 to the 190,000s in 2018 and 2019 to a whopping 293,000 in 2020. But they sold nearly 500,000 cars in 2020 and seem to be growing at a fantastic clip. Here's the thing, though. Ford exceeded half a million cars in 1916. It took Henry Ford from 1901 to 1911 to get to producing 34,000 cars a year but only 5 more years to hit half a million. I read a lot of good and a lot of bad things about Tesla. Ford currently has a little over a 46 and a half billion dollar market cap. Tesla's crested at nearly $850 billion and has since dropped to just shy of 600. Around 64 million cars are sold each year. Volkswagen is the top, followed by Toyota. Combined, they are worth less than Tesla on paper despite selling over 20 times the number of cars. If Tesla was moving faster, that might make more sense. But here's the thing. Tesla is about to get besieged by competitors at every side. Nearly every category of car has an electric alternative with Audi, BMW, Volvo, and Mercedes releasing cars at the higher ends and on multiple platforms. Other manufacturers are releasing cars to compete with the upper and lower tiers of each model Tesla has made available. And miniature cars, scooters, bikes, air taxis, and other modes of transportation are causing us to rethink the car. And multi-tenancy of automobiles using ride sharing apps and the potential that self driving cars can have on that are causing us to rethink automobile ownership. All of this will lead some to rethink that valuation Tesla enjoyed. But watching the moves Tesla makes and scratching my head over some certainly makes me think to never under, or over-estimate Tesla or Musk. I don't want anything to do with Tesla Stock. Far too weird for me to grok. But I do wish them the best. I highly doubt the state of electric vehicles and the coming generational shifts in transportation in general would be where they are today if Tesla hadn't done all the good and bad that they've done. They deserve a place in the history books when we start looking back at the massive shifts to come. In the meantime, I'l' just call this episode part 1 and wait to see if Tesla matches Ford production levels some day, crashes and burns, gets acquired by another company, or who knows, packs up and heads to Mars.
En este episodio quiero hablarles de Tesla, la compañía de autos eléctricos que fundó Elon Musk.Seguro todos ustedes lo conocerán ya, pero brevemente recordarles que Elon Musk es un emprendedor de origen sudafricano que con 17 años abandonó su hogar con un sueño: inventar nuevas tecnologías que cambiaran nuestras vidas. Tras vivir en Canadá unos años, Musk finalmente se asentó en Silicon Valley donde con 24 años fundó su primera empresa: Zip2.Cuatro años después Elon recibió 22 millones de dólares con la venta de esta empresa, que utilizó para fundar su siguiente empresa: X.com, que posteriormente sería renombrada PayPal.PayPal fue la compañía de pagos por internet más utilizada hasta que fue adquirida por eBay en el año 2002 por 1.500 millones de dólares, de los cuales 170 millones fueron para Musk.Aunque también conoció algunos fracasos, la carrera emprendedora de Musk fue tremendamente exitosa y esto le convirtió en un millonario con apenas 30 años.Pero para Musk ganar una fortuna no era suficiente. Su objetivo desde chico era hacer historia cambiando nuestras vidas gracias a la tecnología, y su gran oportunidad llegó en el año 2003 cuando fundó Tesla junto a JB Straubel y Martin Eberhard.
Tesla, Inc., formerly (2003–17) Tesla Motors, American electric-automobile manufacturer. It was founded in 2003 by American entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning and was named after Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla. Tesla Motors was formed to develop an electric sports car. Eberhard was Tesla’s chief executive officer (CEO) and Tarpenning its chief financial officer (CFO). Funding for the company was obtained from a variety of sources, most notably PayPal cofounder Elon Musk, who contributed more than $30 million to the new venture and served as chairman of the company, beginning in 2004. In 2008 Tesla Motors released its first car, the completely electric Roadster. In company tests, it achieved 245 miles (394 km) on a single charge, a range unprecedented for a production electric car. Additional tests showed that its performance was comparable to that of many gasoline-powered sports cars: the Roadster could accelerate from 0 to 60 miles (96 km) per hour in less than 4 seconds and could reach a top speed of 125 miles (200 km) per hour. The lightweight car body was made of carbon fibre. The Roadster produced no tailpipe emissions, as it did not use an internal-combustion engine. Tesla Motors found that the car attained efficiency ratings that were equivalent to a gasoline mileage of 135 miles per gallon (57 km per litre). The vehicle’s electric motor was powered by lithium-ion cells—often used in laptop-computer batteries—that could be recharged from a standard electric outlet. Despite a federal tax credit of $7,500 for purchasing an electric vehicle, the Roadster’s cost of $109,000 made it a luxury item. But Tesla, like many startups, has a storied history, and we're going to take you through the journey that has been Tesla Motors. This episode is brought to you by: SIEMENS download their free webinar on Building a sound, digital foundation for hardware startups today. Digital Ocean is a cloud provider that makes it easy for entrepreneurs and startups to deploy and scale web applications with no issues and unplanned costs. Get started for free at do.co/rocketship. Earth Class Mail scans and digitizes you physical mail and makes it available to you on mobile or desktop or even Google Drive or Dropbox. Rocketship listeners get 25% off their subscription for the first 3 months by going to earthclassmail.com/rocketship. Rocketship is brought to you by The Podglomerate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Marc Tarpenning is the Co-founder of Tesla and a Venture Partner at Spero Ventures. He was one of the original co-founders of Tesla back in 2003 and shares with us the origin story of Tesla as a mission-driven company, and how that mission was a competitive advantage. Spero Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies solving critical problems in: well-being, work & purpose and human connection. Marc brings his passion for climate sustainability to Spero and focuses on their sustainability-related investments such as Drone Seed, Clarity, and Tortuga AgTech. In This Episode We Talk About: The inside story of how Tesla got started and what motivated Marc and Martin Eberhard to tackle such a massive challenge. How Tesla's mission helped them hire top talent, gain buy-in from customers, and raise funding. How Tesla balanced enticing lucrative early opportunities and sticking to their core mission. The rationale for Marc's shift to working in VC and why he chose Spero Ventures. The areas Marc is most excited about investing in. Mentioned in This Episode: Other early investors in Tesla: DBL Spero Ventures: Website, Twitter @SperoVentures Marc's Recent Investment at Spero: DroneSeed Stay In Touch: Email us at Missiondriven@better.vc Follow Better Ventures on Twitter @BetterVentures Visit www.better.vc
Show #838 Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Monday 11th June 2020. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too. VW's new EV (ID.3) on sale on 7/20 Nissan's new EV (Ariya) launch on 7/15 BMW's new EV (iX3) launch Daimler to ramp sales of its EQC to 7.9K/month ELECTRIC CAR MAKER FISKER TO GO PUBLIC THROUGH SPAC DEAL AT $2.9 BILLION VALUATION "Electric car maker Fisker will go public through a merger with a blank-check company backed by alternative investment manager Apollo Global Management Inc at a valuation of $2.9 billion, the companies said on Monday." according to Reuters: "Reuters reported last week that the special-purpose acquisition company, Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp (SPAQ_u.N), was leading a bidding war among blank-check companies for Fisker. A blank-check company is a shell company that raises money through an IPO to buy an operating company, typically within two years. The Fisker deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter, will provide Fisker with $1 billion in gross proceeds, including $500 million of funds from existing and new investors such as AllianceBernstein and BlackRock Inc. The proceeds will be used to bring the company’s Fisker Ocean SUV to market in late 2022. Fisker said the startup is in talks with other companies, including Magna International, about building the SUV. Magna declined to comment. " https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spartan-energey-m-a-fisker-idUSKCN24E1FB SALES OF ID.3 START ON JULY 20 Four weeks after the start of ordering for the limited ID.3 1ST for pre-bookers, Volkswagen is opening the ordering system to the public on July 20, 2020. Customers in many European countries will be able to choose from seven pre-configured ID.3 models at dealerships and to order the appropriate charging equipment at the same time. All seven ID.3 models will be eligible for the maximum state subsidy of €9,480 granted as an environmental bonus in Germany. Subsidies will also be available for the ID.3 in many other European countries. Life - Style – Business – Family– Tech – Max These are six out of seven models which customers can order starting on July 20, available for delivery from October. They are based on the basic model ID.3 Pro Performance with a 58-kWh battery (net battery energy content) for a range of up to 420 km (WLTP2) with the 150 kW Performance rear-wheel-drive system. With delivery in October, customers will receive a free-of-charge update for the two outstanding digital functions AppConnect und and the distance feature of the augmented reality head-up display for the “Tech” and “Max” models in the first quarter of 2021. All models delivered in the first quarter of 2021 will already be equipped with all functions. Without optional equipment, the ID.3 ProPerformance costs €35,574.95 The 7th preconfigured model “Tour” can also be ordered starting on July 20. It is based on the four-seat ProS model that allows for a bigger battery (77 kWh net battery energy content) with a range of up to 550 km (WLTP) and 125kW DC charging, starting at €40,936.31. The ID.3 “Tour”, available for €45,917.48, is already equipped with all the features you would like to have on long journeys: Head-up Display and Sound package, matrix LED headlamps, comfort package, 12-way massage seat and assistant package with all driver assistance systems are all included, together with 19-inch aluminum wheels. VW REPORTEDLY REPLACING HEAD OF SOFTWARE DIVISION OVER ID.3 STRUGGLES "Volkswagen is replacing its head of software development, newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Sunday, as the German carmaker wrestles with the transition to electric vehicles." says Autoblog today: "The newspaper said Christian Senger, a former BMW manager who runs the recently founded Car.Software.Org unit, was to be replaced after clashes with the company and concern at software problems with the recent ID.3 and Golf 8 vehicles. Senger was part of a network of external managers Chief Executive Herbert Diess had brought in to reform the company. Senger, after working on BMW’s i3 electric car, helped Volkswagen make its MEB electric car platform, a key pillar of its revival in the wake of a 2015 diesel cheating scandal." https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/13/vw-replacing-head-of-software-division/ TESLA MODEL Y PRICE CUT AS ELON CONFIRMS NEW VERSION IN TESTING Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that these price adjustments aren’t the only tweaking the Model Y is going to see. For a start, the Model Y Standard Range that was originally promised at the crossover’s debut is now no longer going to be built, Musk said. That version was intended to come in at $39,000, and launch in spring 2021." says Slashgear: "According to Musk, range for the car would be under 250 miles by the EPA’s measure, something he described as “unacceptably low.” Instead, he explained, there will be a Model Y Long Range Single Motor arriving “in a few months.” That should be more affordable, Musk argued, “while still keeping the product excellent. As to what exact range drivers might be able to expect from that version of the crossover, Tesla is still doing the testing. “Numbers will be significantly higher than 300,” Musk suggested.” https://www.slashgear.com/tesla-model-y-price-cut-as-elon-confirms-new-version-in-testing-13628635/ Originally: Standard Range RWD – $39,000 (or $40,000?) (Spring 2021) estimated EPA range – 230 miles (370 km) 0-60 mph (96.5 km/h) in 5.9 seconds top speed of 120 mph (193 km/h) 18″ wheels (19’’ Sport Wheels for $1,500) So will we ever see the base version of the Cybertruck? And what of Elon saying 230 miles is not acceptable? They've raising for tide of other EV makers, changing perceptions. TEST-DRIVING THIS OBSCURE 1997 SPORTS CAR CONVINCED ELON MUSK TO MAKE ELECTRIC CARS AND INVEST IN TESLA "In 2003, Musk, long interested in sustainability and electric cars, test drove a model car called the Tzero. [The first Tzero model] literally didn’t have doors or a roof, or any airbags or an effective cooling system. It was not safe or reliable,” according to CNBC: "The electric sports car built in 1997 by a small California company called AC Propulsion, was essentially a version of “the prototypical Tesla Roadster,” according to Wired. But while AC Propulsion founder Alan Cocconi and then-CEO Tom Gage were “technology visionaries,” according to Wired, they didn’t have “the entrepreneurial vision to see just how big an idea it could become” or “the means to achieve it.” Musk did. He was inspired and saw an opportunity to bring the electric car to market. Although Musk didn’t want to take on another start-up (he had just founded aerospace company SpaceX), he asked Cocconi and Gage if he could commercialize the Tzero. They agreed, according to Musk, and Gage suggested Musk speak with electric car start-up Tesla Motors and its founders, engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who were also looking to commercialize the Tzero. With money Musk earned as a co-founder of PayPal, which eBay bought for $1.5 billion in 2002, he invested $6.3 million in start-up Tesla Motors in 2004"" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/13/test-drive-that-influenced-musk-to-make-electric-cars-invest-in-tesla.html FORMER TESLA VP SAYS 'NIMBLENESS' IS THEIR SECRET SAUCE "Philippe Chain, Tesla’s former VP of Quality, gave some interesting insight into this aspect of Tesla’s business in a new article. As an example of Tesla’s nimbleness, Chain explained how Tesla managed to modify a part within 5 days of having it failed in an NHTSA test.Chain, who worked at Renault prior to Tesla and at Audi after, wrote: “What took a single meeting and five days at Tesla would have required a six-month-long process at Renault or Audi. It would have started with a thorough investigation going back to the source of the error, looking for the person to blame internally, investigating a possible blunder of the supplier, etc. Then, a politically delicate sequence would have unfolded to set up a series of meetings and workshops. Multiple hierarchical strata would have been involved, going up probably to the very top of the organization.”" And also: "“Another good example is the long-term durability evaluation of a car. When I discussed it with Elon, I told him our engineers’ calculations led to at least a million equivalent miles of driving required before launching the car — a six-month phase required to discover potential weaknesses and fix them. My request was actually very limited in regards to the industry practices: German manufacturers don’t release a car that has not clocked 10 million kilometers and two winters. Elon, in his customary laconic way, answered: “OK, do it. But we are not delaying the launch date for it… — But we might encounter issues that will require some modifications of the production models… — Yeah, I know, but we will make the changes afterward if we have to… — Even if it involves recalling some cars? — Yes. And for the rest, we will adjust by pushing some OTA upgrades" https://electrek.co/2020/07/13/tesla-former-vp-quality-explains-issues/ CADILLAC EXPLAINS ORIGINS OF LYRIQ EV NAME "GM Authority asked Cadillac about the origin of the Lyriq name for the coming battery-electric crossover. Global head of brand strategy Phil Dauchy explained three threads that went into the new moniker. In no particular order, one thread is that "Cadillac," according to Dauchy, gets more mentions in song lyrics than any other brand, including non-automotive brands. The second thread is rolled up with Cadillac's move to proper names instead of alphanumerics for the sedan and crossover lines, all of those names to end in "iq," as well as the push into electric vehicles. Dauchy told GMA the nomenclature overhaul and the two-letter suffix "[signal] that Cadillac is bringing a different type of vehicle to market, one that works in concert with man, nature, and machine." He's bullish on swaying the public with the product, adding, "When you see [the Cadillac Celestiq], its size, presence and scale all connote the emotion associated with the name." https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/13/cadillac-lyriq-ev-name-explanation/ [mention for Premium Partners] You can listen to all 837 previous episodes of this this for free, where you get your podcasts from, plus the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically. 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Liarla por Twitter fue el pasatiempo favorito de Elon Musk durante 2018, un año después de su mayor metedura de pata, nos preguntamos si ha aprendido la lección. Patrocinador: Escucha PerspectIA, el podcast de Microsoft para aprender cómo se puede usar la Inteligencia Artificial para hacer del mundo un lugar mejor. En Spotify, Apple o iVoox. En agosto de 2018 Elon Musk metió la pata hasta el fondo al publicar en Twitter que había conseguido financiación para sacar a Tesla de bolsa y convertirla en una empresa privada. Un año después repasamos los múltiples juicios y jaleos del emporio muskiano. Tesla y marihuana: el mensaje oculto de los 420 dólares Elon Musk se queja de Martin Eberhard en Twitter Elon Musk no volverá a fumar marihuana en público, la NASA se ha asegurado de ello Elon Musk fuma un porro y la Fuerza Aérea no sabe qué hacer La NASA evaluará la seguridad laboral de SpaceX y Boeing después de que Elon Musk fumara un porro Elon Musk dice que “valió la pena” el tuit por el que fue destituido y multado con $20 millones Cosas Que Dice Elon – News, Photos, Videos & More – Gizmodo en Español ELON está presentado por Matías S. Zavia (@matiass) y Álex Barredo (@somospostpc). Su tema original está compuesto por Nahúm García (@nahum). — Alojado en Cuonda (@cuonda)
Show #516 Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 2nd July 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story to save you time. Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too. Comment from yesterday by Lounge lizard • 2 minutes ago The end of the quarter push this time has a very real benefit. The US tax credit will be reduced by half at the end of this month so getting as many cars to new buyers as possible saves them a couple thousand dollars HAPPY BIRTHDAY TESLA i missed this one yesterday, 1st July is Tesla's birthday. According to a history written by CNN a while ago: "Tesla is founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. The engineers become CEO and CFO, respectively. Eberhard and Tarpenning were inspired to create the company after General Motors ended its EV1 program and destroyed the electric cars". And in 2004: "Elon Musk gets in the mix. The entrepreneur who made a fortune at PayPal, helps lead the Series A funding round for Tesla and invests $6.35 million of his own money. He becomes chairman of the board following that investment." We're also exactly 9 years since another big milestone: "Toyota Motors invests $50 million and enters into a joint venture with Tesla to develop electric cars and parts." ON June 5th 2017 Toyota would dispose of all their shares in Tesla. ELECTRIC CARS GRAB ALMOST HALF OF SALES IN OIL-PRODUCING NORWAY "Almost half of new cars sold in Norway in the first six months of 2019 were powered by fully electric engines, up from just over a quarter in the same period last year, ensuring the Nordic nation retains its top global ranking in electric vehicle sales." says Reuters in a new report published today: "Tesla’s (TSLA.O) Model 3 was Norway’s top-selling vehicle, the Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said when announcing the latest sales data on Monday. In total, 48.4% of all new cars sold from January to June were electric, surpassing the 31.2% seen for the full year 2018, and making oil-producing Norway the global leader in per-capita electric car sales by a wide margin. Seeking to end the sale of diesel and petrol engines by the middle of the next decade, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from the heavy taxes imposed on vehicles powered by fossil fuel. It also offers benefits such as discounts on road tolls. Tesla sold 3,760 vehicles in Norway in June, for a 24.5% share of all cars during the month, and was also the top-selling brand for the first six months.Most of its sales were of the mid-sized Model 3" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-norway/electric-cars-grab-almost-half-of-sales-in-oil-producing-norway-idUSKCN1TW2WO GENESIS CONFIRMS ELECTRIC SEDAN FOR 2021 "The first electric car for Hyundai's Genesis brand is due in 2021. Manfred Fitzgerald, the brand's global executive vice president, noted to Australia's Drive that the company is working on a new electric platform that is likely to spawn both a sedan and an SUV, with the sedan likely to come first." says Green Car Reports: "Though Genesis has shown several EV concepts over the years, the introduction of a conventional luxury electric sedan—rather than the already expected electric SUV—represents a new direction for the brand." https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1123810_genesis-confirms-electric-sedan-for-2021 IN MAY 2019, PLUG-IN ELECTRIC CAR SALES IN EUROPE EXCEEDED 36,000 This past month, some 36,200 plug-ins were registered, although PHEVs are still dropping. The quickest segment of the market turns out to be all-electric cars, as the sales increase amounted to 85%! The Renault ZOE (outgoing generation) scored a strong #1 in the model rank with 4,031 new registrations, followed by Tesla Model 3 (2,802), BMW i3 (2,580), Volkswagen e-Golf (1,946) and Nissan LEAF (just 1,603). https://insideevs.com/news/356644/may-2019-plugin-car-sales-europe-36000/ THE NEXT HYBRID – HOW ABOUT A CRUISE SHIP? I love this next story from AutoBlog, about how EV batteries are getting everywhere: "The world’s first cruise ship propelled partially by battery power is set to head out from northern Norway on its maiden voyage, cruise operator Hurtigruten said on Monday.The hybrid expedition cruise ship, the Roald Amundsen, can take 500 passengers and is designed to sail in harsh climate waters. While the engines run mainly on marine gasoil, the ship’s battery pack enables it to run solely on batteries for around 45 to 60 minutes under ideal conditions, Hurtigruten Chief Executive Daniel Skjeldam told Reuters." https://www.autoblog.com/2019/07/01/the-next-hybrid-how-about-a-cruise-ship/ BRITISH AND CHINESE CAR INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCE NEW AGREEMENT The British and Chinese car industries have signed a new agreement that will enable them to collaborate on automotive technology and development. Britain’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced the new deal, which is intended to “create new business opportunities” between the two nations. According to the SMMT, though, the new deal will open up opportunities for connected and autonomous vehicles, low- and zero-emission technology and battery research and development. The organisation says these are “no longer local issues”, and countries would have to collaborate to solve them." https://uk.motor1.com/news/356390/british-chinese-car-industries-agreement/ DYSON'S FURY AT HONDA OVER ELECTRIC CAR SNUB "Sir James Dyson has accused Honda of scuppering a deal that could have led to him building his new electric car in Britain." writes ThisIsMoney.co.uk: "In a letter seen by The Mail on Sunday, the billionaire entrepreneur claims he tried to negotiate a deal with Honda to use part of its factory in Swindon, Wiltshire – but he says the Japanese car giant refused. The 72-year-old's eponymous company, Dyson, also failed in an attempt to expand into Government-owned land in Wiltshire, sources said and instead revealed plans in October to manufacture its electric vehicles in Singapore rather than the UK. Honda last night waded into the row, dismissing Sir James's claims as 'factually inaccurate'." https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-7195965/Dyson-claims-car-giant-Honda-rejected-bid-build-new-model-UK-plant.html COULD IT BE? CAMARO COULD RETURN AS PURE EV PONY CAR "Rumors suggest that Chevrolet doesn't intend to give the Camaro a new generation, causing the pony car to get the axe for the second time in the model's history. Now, new speculation indicates that the Bowtie might revive the model as a performance-oriented electric vehicle, according to Car Buzz without citing specific sources." here to tell us more, Global Editor in Chief of Motor1.com is John Neff... https://www.motor1.com/news/357444/chevy-camaro-ev-return-rumor/ COMMUNITY And thanks to MYEV.com they’ve set us another Question Of The Week. Keep your comments coming in on email and YouTube… I’ve been checking my stats and over 90% of listeners are men, so why are EVs still a ‘guy thing’? 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Marc Tarpenning, Co-Founder and former CFO of Tesla Motors speaks at The Pi Shop, detailing his entrepreneurial journey and how he and Martin Eberhard went on to create one of the most recognizable automobile startups in history........The Pi Shop is a Product Business Incubator located in the Central Valley of California.The Pi Shop is a state-of-the-art Product Business Incubator offering focused and fully-integrated infrastructure and support to entrepreneurs and inventors who plan to design, test, refine, build and manufacture products or technology products.Our mission is to provide an atmosphere for collaboration, mentorship, instruction, knowledge, innovation and support for a new technology, manufacturing or product-oriented business venture.As a 501c3 nonprofit organization, we set ourselves apart from other incubators in that our staff includes a full time Engineer in Residence providing DIY engineering assistance. The Pi Shop's strategic partner is Blue Dolphin Design and Engineering who has been helping their clients for two decades transform their ideas into reality.As the recipient of a U.C. Merced Grant and established in conjunction with U.C. Merced's Venture Lab, our staff also includes a Grant Specialist that provides assistance to members in their efforts to write successful proposals such as SBIR and STTR grants.The Pi Shop is looking for great Producteurs (product entrepreneurs) to springboard to success!To find out more, please visit us at http://thepishop.org/Support the show (http://thepishop.org/donate/)
SpaceX layoffs; still no 8K for China GigaFactory Skippable synopsis of a thread about Tesla's founder Martin Eberhard from about the 10:30 to 18:20 marks of the episode Mention of some Form 4's and overall timelines of Musk-controlled businesses *Meant to state that Melayna has no position in $TSLA rather than no position in $TWTR; talking and trying to say the correct Silicon Valley stock starting with a T can be a tall task
Is Silicon Valley Failing Entrepreneurs? If you’re an entrepreneur or thinking about starting a company Silicon Valley seems to be the place to be. Not only is there a large talent pool in the area, the infrastructure to build and scales companies is perhaps the best in the world. Despite the perceived friendliness of the region towards startups, 99% of entrepreneurs are not able to get funding. While some may assume that investors are simply removing the ‘would be failure entrepreneurs’ out of the scene, this couldn’t be farther from the truth; in fact, many of these companies would likely be profitable. So the question is, why would so many potentially profitable companies be rejected? “They get rejected because they don't fit the requirement of the venture capital model,” says Sramana Mitra, founder of One Million by One Million. Sramana’s company is an accelerator helping entrepreneurs succeed without financing. She says what VCs look for is “hyper fast growth and hyper large market opportunity. Very few companies fit that model.” After interviewing dozens of entrepreneurs, over the years it’s become apparent to me that successful businesses are rarely started with the sole objective to make money. Entrepreneurs identify problems and bring solutions to the table- that is their mission. Many “would be” companies certainly aren’t modeled to grow to $50 million in revenue within the first several years of operation, but that’s ok. These founders are setting out to solve problems and accomplish their dreams, not build the next Wall Street juggernaut. The question I pose is, how does the current infrastructure in the valley meet their needs? While the valley has dozens of accelerators for entrepreneurs to choose from, they don’t always have the interests of founders in mind. Why? Accelerators admit entrepreneurs into their program in exchange for an equity stake in the company. With that said, of course, they are going to groom their “portfolio” and escort them to venture capitalists where there are vast amounts of financial and human capital available. If their companies are given the green light to receive VC funding, the accelerators would see their ROI would greatly improve. Each round of funding the founders accept, relinquishes their control of the company. It’s not uncommon for the founder to be out voted or even ousted from their own company after disagreements with their board. Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, Jerry Yang was forced to step down from Yahoo, and Martin Eberhard, co-founder and previous CEO of Tesla was asked to transition out. If these entrepreneurs had maintained ownership of their company, they wouldn’t have been kicked out by investors wanting to maximize company profits. The concept that entrepreneurs need to receive financing to be labeled successful is a huge misconception. I was thrilled when I met Sramana and that she was fighting against this notion. When I sat down with her for an interview, she explained that her company, One Million By One Million, is the “first and only global virtual business accelerator”. Her mission is to help one million entrepreneurs reach one million in revenue- not push external financing or take an equity stake. Her philosophy is that many companies can be successful by bootstrapping- yes, even unicorns. While her business model is not traditional of other accelerators, it allows entrepreneurs to maintain ownership of their companies. Boot strapping off a paycheck can allow a company to be profitable from day one. She says, “our definition of success in entrepreneurship is customers, revenues and profits. Financing is optional, exit is optional, that's the philosophy of the program”
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Since the day Tesla was founded, executives saw stationary storage as a compliment to the electric car business. That was Martin Eberhard's plan when he co-founded the company and envisioned the Tesla Energy Group. Years later, after launching the Powerwall, CEO Elon Musk said the storage business could soon eclipse automobiles. Today, storage is an integral part of Tesla's package of offerings for consumers, and its development plans for utilities. In 2009, Mateo Jaramillo was hired to execute Tesla's storage strategy. Well, eventually. First, he was responsible for developing the company's powertrain. Over time, he became more heavily involved in stationary storage -- eventually building Tesla's in-house storage development arm and the team that designed the Powerwall and Powerpack. He drew on his years of experience at Gaia Power Technologies, where he worked on some of the earliest behind-the-meter battery systems in New York. Last December, Jaramillo left Tesla to focus on his next career move in storage. The LinkedIn description of his new job job reads: "The Next Thing." This week, we caught up with Jaramillo to talk about what that "next thing" might be. We talked about the history of behind-the-meter storage, the evolution of Tesla's approach to the market, and where storage business models and applications are headed. Thanks to our launch sponsor, AES Energy Storage. The grid is changing. Fast. And AES Energy Storage is helping utilities harness the power of battery-based energy storage to make the electric power system cleaner, more flexible, and more reliable. Find out more. Big thanks to our launch sponsor, AES Energy Storage: http://aesenergystorage.com/interchange Make sure to subscribe to the Interchange: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-interchange/id1221460035?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/theinterchangepodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-interchange Our RSS Feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:298570872/sounds.rss Bookmark our Interchange web page: https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-interchange
Since the day Tesla was founded, executives saw stationary storage as a compliment to the electric car business. That was Martin Eberhard's plan when he co-founded the company and envisioned the Tesla Energy Group. Years later, after launching the Powerwall, CEO Elon Musk said the storage business could soon eclipse automobiles. Today, storage is an integral part of Tesla's package of offerings for consumers, and its development plans for utilities. In 2009, Mateo Jaramillo was hired to execute Tesla's storage strategy. Well, eventually. First, he was responsible for developing the company's powertrain. Over time, he became more heavily involved in stationary storage -- eventually building Tesla's in-house storage development arm and the team that designed the Powerwall and Powerpack. He drew on his years of experience at Gaia Power Technologies, where he worked on some of the earliest behind-the-meter battery systems in New York. Last December, Jaramillo left Tesla to focus on his next career move in storage. The LinkedIn description of his new job job reads: "The Next Thing." This week, we caught up with Jaramillo to talk about what that "next thing" might be. We talked about the history of behind-the-meter storage, the evolution of Tesla's approach to the market, and where storage business models and applications are headed. Thanks to our launch sponsor, AES Energy Storage. The grid is changing. Fast. And AES Energy Storage is helping utilities harness the power of battery-based energy storage to make the electric power system cleaner, more flexible, and more reliable. Find out more: http://aesenergystorage.com/interchange Make sure to subscribe to the Interchange: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-interchange/id1221460035?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/theinterchangepodcast Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-interchange Our RSS Feed: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:298570872/sounds.rss Bookmark our Interchange web page: https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-interchange
SummaryMarc Tarpenning, along with Martin Eberhard, was the cofounder of Tesla Motors back in 2003. But before that, Tarpenning and Eberhard were also the cofounders of NuvoMedia, which produced one of the world's first ebook devices, the rocket eBook. So, for the first part of the episode, Mark recounts the story of NuvoMedia and then about 25 minutes in we begin the founding of Tesla, in my opinion, perhaps the most amazing startup story of the last 20 years. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Martin Eberhard is the Co-Founder, President of Technology and former CEO of Tesla Motors, a company that produces the Tesla Roadster, a battery-powered electric sports car. Eberhard discusses his inspiring journey of diverse experiences in building Tesla Motors. He describes the lessons he learned: from the realization of doing something meaningful to thinking an idea through and aggressively following all leads. Tesla Motors which started with two employees is now more than 250 employees strong.
This week, Robbie is playing at a wedding in Yosemite with one of his bands, so friend of the show Tanya Gazdik is back with a plethora of Stellantis vehicles. Among the Ram Rebel 1500, Chrysler Pacifica PHEV and Jeep Grand Wagoneer L you might be surprised to learn which is her favorite. Nicole has been driving the Subaru Impreza RS and Sam had the BMW X7 M60i.Nicole and Tanya both drove the new Subaru Crosstrek in some Woodstock mud, but without any classic rock bands. Nicole also drove the new second-generation Chevrolet Trax. There's an all-new second-generation Mini EV coming in a few months with lots more range and performance. If you prefer the classic mini Mini, you too can go electric thanks to Electrogenic. Back in the early 1990s, a decade before Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning conceived of the Tesla Roadster (that other guy didn't come along until a year later with the money to make it happen), a bunch of Motorola engineers built an electric Corvette. Lordstown Motors may finally be reaching the end of the road unless someone steps up with a bunch of money (unlikely). Finally, we talk about a bunch of Honda engineers driving one and a half NSXs in the One Lap of America.LinksElectric Corvette from 19942024 Chevy TraxElectrogenic Classic Mini EV conversion kitElectrogenicAcura NSX trailerNext-gen Mini E coming soonEnd of the line for Lordstown?Our Sponsors:* Check out Express VPN: https://expressvpn.com/WHEELBEARINGSAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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