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Darryl Siry: How the Energy Department stifles innovation

Darryl Siry is making the most of his perch at Wired's Autopia to bring interesting discussion topics to the attention of the green car community. The latest: how the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program (ATVMP) – intended to help put cleaner vehicles on the road – "has a downside." The ATVMP has so far given out loans to Ford ($5.9 billion), Nissan ($1.6 billion) Fisker Automotive ($528.7 million), and Tesla Motors ($465 million). This is just about $8.5 billion of the program's $25 ... Read more →

Darryl Siry moves to WIRED, calls for changes to electric vehicle tax credit Sebastian Blanco

Darryl Siry, who once worked for Tesla Motors and currently advises Coda Automotive with their all-electric sedan, has started writing for WIRED's Autopia blog. In his first post out of the gate, ...

David Vespremi on Tesla's relevance in bringing EVs to the masses Sam Abuelsamid

While things have been quiet on the official legal front in the battle for recognition between Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk, some of the bystanders in the saga are continuing to come forward with ...

Ex-Tesla CMO weighs in on founder controversy: They're both wrong! Sam Abuelsamid

As the legal battle between Elon Musk and Martin Eberhard continues to percolate, a new/old voice has chimed in publicly on the controversy for the first time. Current Peppercom clean-tech analyst ...

Electric vehicle manufacturers need to be honest about range estimates Sam Abuelsamid

Most of us hear know the name Darryl Siry as former marketing and communications boss at Tesla. These days, Siry is a senior clean tech analyst at Peppercom in addition to doing communications ...

EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry) 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Following EEStor's permittivity announcement on Earth Day last week, I wrote a post that ended with a call for our readers to determine if the stated "relative permittivity of 22,500" was a big deal or not. There were some educated responses (thank you), but one refrain that kept appearing was that ...

Ex-Tesla sales chief re-surfaces with green consultantcy 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

It's been a few months since Darryl Siry walked away from the top sales and marketing job at Tesla Motors. In the interim he's been working on some new projects which have just been revealed. Late last week, he announced that he is joining Peppercom a national PR and business intelligence firm as a ...

Ex-Tesla VP Siry calls for either taxing up gas prices or dropping CAFE 12 months ago on Autoblog Green

Darryl Siry has never been shy about expressing his opinions. Since departing from his post as chief talking head and salesman at Tesla Motors, Siry has been freed up to share his thoughts even more vociferously and with greater frequency on his personal blog and his latest post is sure to anger ...

BREAKING: Tesla SVP Darryl Siry resigns! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We just got word that the turmoil at Tesla Motors is continuing as SVP for Marketing and Sales Darryl Siry has tendered his resignation. According to the post on Siry's personal blog, he is leaving "due to some disagreements in strategy." We talked to Siry but he declined to elaborate any ...

VIDEO: Tesla's Siry interviewed at BIMS 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There's lots of green-car action taking place at this years British International Motor Show (BIMS) and although we can't be there in person, our vlogger pal Danny is. Today, Danny has a fresh interview with Darryl Siry from Tesla who was at the show to check out the Lightning GT reveal accompany a ...

Tesla on the receiving end of another lawsuit, this time from ex-employee 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The round of firings at Tesla Motors that followed the departure of co-founder Martin Eberhard late in 2007 has resulted in yet another lawsuit for the company. This time litigation comes in the form of a class action suit from former employee David Vespremi for breach of contract, libel and ...

So, where is Martin Eberhard's Tesla Roadster anyway? Here's the story so far 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For the last couple of months there has been an ongoing discussion on various sites (including our own) about the status of Martin Eberhard's Tesla Roadster. For those just now tuning in to this little saga, Eberhard was the co-Founder of Tesla Motors, and was supposed to get production car #2 but ...

Tesla Saga continues: When is production car #2 not? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Creating big things is generally the province of visionaries. All too often, big visions go hand in hand with big egos. Big egos are generally like electrons. Anyone who has studied sub-atomic particles knows that similarly charged particles repel each other. You can force them into the same space ...

Tesla's Darryl Siry on product placement with the Roadster 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Perhaps the most talked about new car to appear in recent years that almost no one has actually driven yet is the Tesla Roadster. The impressive thing about this is that they have managed to pre-sell hundreds of these cars without spending a dime on advertising (aside from whatever was spent on a ...

Tesla VP takes on sacrifice and leadership 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

On this Memorial Day weekend in the United States we are supposed to be honoring those who have sacrificed their lives defending this country. Tesla Motors Vice-President of Marketing Darryl Siry takes on sacrifice and leadership in a post his personal blog. In past times of war people have always ...

Tesla to open customer service centers in 2007 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

When Tesla Motors CEO Martin Eberhard talked to AutoblogGreen recently, he said that Tesla would not be using traditional franchised dealers to sell their electric cars. Instead, they will be establishing company owned customer centers around the country. For established car-makers with dealer ...

Editorial: Tesla = GM, Toyota? Tesla > Phoenix Motorcars? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

As my fellow blogger Sam pointed out recently, Darryl Siry, Vice President of Marketing for Tesla Motors, recently wrote on their site's blog that "The Media Need to Toughen Up on the Subject of EVs". This is true on many levels, and it could be argued that the media needs to toughen up when it ...

Tesla marketing VP has a blog 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I was in contact with new VP of Marketing for Tesla Motors, Darryl Siry over the weekend and found out that he is apparently quite an automotive enthusiast. Darryl documents some of car passion online at his blog called Horseless Age. If you want to keep up with some of the developments at his ...

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