Audi Startled By Tesla Sales Success? Deleted Press Release Seems To Say So

Audi Startled By Tesla Sales Success? Deleted Press Release Seems To Say So

greencarreports.com 21 May '13, 2pm

Investors, press and a lot of front-runners are enthusing over the progress of Tesla in selling all-electric vehicles, and doing so profitably, when other EV brands are faltering. But some reports are giving Tesla too much credit. A headline on CNNMoney.com this week, for instance, said "Tesla sales beating Mercedes, BMW and Audi." But the fact is that Tesla's reported sales of 4,750 units of its Model S electric car in April were less than half of Audi of America sales of 13,157 vehicles in the month, which represented a 16-percent rise from a year earlier. BMW and Mercedes-Benz sold even more than that. The story's misleading headline ca...

Bob Lutz and VL Automotive, Wanxiang trying to buy Fisker

green.autoblog.com 21 May '13, 11pm

was in the news earlier this year, as it moved to acquire bankrupt automotive battery company A123 . Turns out, while that was taking place i...

Worldwide Capacity of EV Lithium Ion Batteries To Multiply More than 10-Fold by 2020

hybridcars.com 21 May '13, 5am
Worldwide Capacity of EV Lithium Ion Batteries To Multiply More than 10-Fold by 2020

Improvements in lithium ion (Li-ion) battery technology are helping to accelerate the worldwide market for electric vehicles (EVs). In the la...

GM Prepping CNG-Powered Chevy Impala?

gas2.org 21 May '13, 8pm
GM Prepping CNG-Powered Chevy Impala?

Compressed natural gas, or CNG, may be the fuel of the future here in America. Vast untapped resources of CNG are only now being exploited, a...

100,000th highway-capable plug-in vehicle sold

pluginamerica.org 20 May '13, 6pm

Over a quarter-million people are exposed daily to the benefits of electric transportation Nissan dealerships in some markets have reported t...