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AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk Pt. 1 - In the beginning

Among the readers of this site, one of the cars that elicits a lot of passion is the Tesla Roadster. The battery-powered Roadster and its provenance have elicited a great deal of discussion over the past nine months, in particular since the demotion and ultimately the departure of co-founder Martin Eberhard. This is a complex tale involving passionate entrepreneurs with that all-too-common but in many ways necessary human frailty known as ego. When humans interact, they often see the same results through their own mental filters. People can see ... Read more →

Tesla Saga continues: When is production car #2 not? Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Martin Eberhard talks up EVs, clean energy on Maui Sebastian Blanco

Way back in October 2006, while I was doing some research in Hawai'i, it hit me that the islands were the perfect place for a full-in electric car revolution. While the EV market hasn't produced the ...

Martin Eberhard goes solar, getting ready to plug in his new car Sam Abuelsamid

Deposed Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard only has a few more weeks to wait for delivery of his new Roadster. Series production is scheduled to start on March 17 and first car off the line that ...

Tesla folks paid close attention to Smart preorders Sebastian Blanco

When Martin Eberhard founded his Tesla Founders blog, he didn't want to be the only one writing about what working on the Tesla Roadster was like. Freed from the daily tasks working on the Roadster, ...

Martin Eberhard's blog gets redacted, he drinks the Volt Kool-Aid 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Over at Martin Eberhard's new soapbox, the TeslaFounders blog, he giveth and taketh away. First with the latter. When we first checked in with Martin a couple of weeks ago, he was writing about what he described as a Stealth Bloodbath. That post has since been redacted although it can be found in ...

Tesla Founder's Blog is live and Martin's not happy! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When Tesla founder Martin Eberhard left the company recently, he announced he would soon be starting a blog where he would talk about what's going on. Well TeslaFounders.com went live earlier this week and if the latest post from Martin is any indication there are some very unhappy people who were ...

More on Martin Eberhard's departure from Tesla Motors 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The saga of Martin Eberhard's abrupt departure from Tesla Motors continues to unfold. A story on the Green Wombat blog at Fortune's site has more details on what happened during Eberhard's last few days with the company he helped get off the ground. It appears that a personality conflict between ...

Martin Eberhard comments on his departure from Tesla 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Martin Eberhard's departure from active involvement in the operation of Tesla Motors came via a brief statement from the company late Friday evening after the Wall Street Journal broke the embargo on the story. When Martin was removed as CEO in August to focus on the getting the Roadster into ...

Martin Eberhard takes a further step away from Tesla management 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tesla Motors has just announced that company co-founder Martin Eberhard has moved over to the company's advisory board. Last August Martin stepped down as CEO to take on the role of President of Technology and oversee getting the company's first product, the Tesla Roadster, into production. The car ...

Martin Eberhard says the complexity of engineering the Tesla Roadster keeps him up at night 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

If you're one of our readers who likes to point out the many high hurdles that Tesla Motors has yet to scale in their quest to bring the Tesla Roadster to market, you're not along. In fact, Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard is right there with you. Eberhard says that, when it comes to engineering ...

Tesla's Martin Eberhard cuts Detroit a little slack 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We reported the other day on a Wall Street Journal article on Tesla Motors and their Roadster which mainly covers the same ground that we and countless other outlets have discussed for the past year. Here's a little more context about what was said in that interview. In the article company ...

Tesla's co-founder says all other electric car companies are wrong, make "crap" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Tesla_Motors_cofounder_discusses_electric_car_pitfalls'; Recently, I wrote that Tesla's co-founder Martin Eberhard made a joke about the lack of quality in other electric car companies. Does Martin really feel that other electric car companies suck? YES! In ...


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