Such has been the remarkable success of Tesla Motors that news of its production and financing challenges came as a surprise for some. Tesla plans to raise an additional $640 million from capital markets, and downgraded its 2015 delivery forecast by up to 5,000 vehicles, citing potential complications with supplier qualification and the ramp up of manufacturing for the Model X SUV.
El idilio de los inversores con el fabricante de vehículos eléctricos continúa. Pese a perder casi 230 millones de dólares en el tercer trimestre (el triple de los 75 millones del mismo periodo del año pasado) y rebajar su estimación de ventas para este año, el valor subió un 10% en el after hours. Detrás de esta subida, la promesa de una mayor producción, una esperada compatibilidad de sus modelos y la esperanza en unos mejores márgenes.
El fabricante estadounidense de vehículos eléctricos Tesla contabilizó unas pérdidas netas de 186,4 millones de dólares (150,3 millones de euros al cambio actual) en los nueve primeros meses de 2014, lo que supone multiplicar por más de 3 los 'números rojos' del mismo período de 2014, según datos de la empresa.
La compañía explicó que estos resultados contemplan un aumento significativo de los gastos de producción derivados del incremento de la producción del Model S y resaltó que en lo que va de ejercicio sus costes de Investigación y Desarrollo se situaron en 280,1 millones de dólares (225,8 millones de euros), un 102% más.
At a glitzy event at the airport in Hawthorne, California Thursday, Tesla rolled out the long-awaited “D.”
The “D” is the insignia on a new line of cars that have dual motors (the “D” stands for “dual”) and feature all-wheel-drive. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the dual motors will improve the efficiency of the cars and add as much as 10 miles of range on one (electrical) charge.
And the new cars are really fast. At the top of the new line is the P85D, which can go from zero to sixty miles per hour in 3.2 seconds.
Low-key mad scientist and Paypal billionaire Elon Musk told CNN Money that “a Tesla car next year will probably be 90 percent capable of autopilot.” On the highway, Musk is “for sure” confident the car will be able to drive itself.
The most exciting news of the year in electric vehicles came today with the announcement that Tesla Motors will build its giant lithium ion battery factory in Nevada. It’s a huge vote of confidence in the future of EVs, but at the same time it points to the long road startups face getting their novel battery technologies into cars.
Tesla Motors has said that it plans to double the current global lithium ion battery production at a joint Tesla-Pansonic facility in Nevada by 2020 to meet anticipated demand for its electric cars, all while providing a boost to U.S. manufacturing.
Serial entrepreneur and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to making waves in the technology sector.
Earlier this year he decided to allow anyone to, “in good faith,” make use of the automaker’s patent portfolio without fear of being named in a patent lawsuit. The goal, he wrote in a blog entry on Tesla’s website, was to entice other automakers to enter the electric vehicle (“EV”) market by allowing them to leverage Tesla’s technology as a platform on which to build new EVs.
Tesla Motors announced recently that they are opening up their patents to anyone, who in good faith, wants to use their technology. The announcement caused surprise to many analysts and experts in the car industry, some considering it an “insane movement”, some others welcoming the “ wonderful altruism”.
Tesla has made no secret of its ambitious plans to build a huge lithium-ion battery plant in the U.S. — and now it appears to have a powerful partner in Panasonic, one of the world’s biggest makers of batteries.
Panasonic is investing $194 million to $291 million into the plant, according to a report in Nikkei Asian Review, which states that Panasonic could eventually invest as much as $1 billion. The plant could cost up to $5 billion in total.
