Powered By Lithium: Elon Musk - Tesla Gets Infinite Mile Warranty. $TSLA $ILC.v $TNR.v $LIT

Kirill Klip.:

Powered By Lithium: Elon Musk - Tesla Gets Infinite Mile Warranty.

  Elon Musk disrupts auto-making industry again and will make a lot of boardrooms unhappy next week. Electric car lithium technology is the game changer for our mobility, it is not just about our ability to Dump The Pump, it is about the totally different business model. As you know, all auto-makers are making money on the car maintenance and spare parts. Now this part of the industry will be under to cost scrutiny as well.

Lithium Batteries Gigafactory: Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company

  

  "Morgan Stanley is very vocal about the coming disruption to trillion dollar industries. Cheaper lithium batteries will enable not only mass market for electric cars, but the distributed power generation. Wind and solar power can be used with the existing grid. Every household potentially becomes the power plant and you can use this power for your own electric car.
  China is the leading wind and solar power generation country in the world now and moving fast to secure the supply for strategic commodities for this green economy: Lithium and REE. Read more."

Elon Musk With Tesla Gigafactory Starts The Race To Secure Supply Of Lithium Batteries And Lithium.

International Lithium Presentation May 2014 from Kirill Klip

 "I would like to share with you the very interesting summary from  Seeking Apha on this subject. It confirms my personal observations of the investment and M&A trends in our Lithium industry today. I will share with you few quotes and links which will help you to understand International Lithium strategy and, what is very important, how our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium sees this megatrends from the ground of the world's biggest auto market in the world in China. Read more"

Tesla Motors:

August 15, 2014

INFINITE MILE WARRANTY

By Elon Musk, CEO

The Tesla Model S drive unit warranty has been increased to match that of the battery pack. That means the 85 kWh Model S, our most popular model by far, now has an 8 year, infinite mile warranty on both the battery pack and drive unit. There is also no limit on the number of owners during the warranty period.

Moreover, the warranty extension will apply retroactively to all Model S vehicles ever produced. In hindsight, this should have been our policy from the beginning of the Model S program. If we truly believe that electric motors are fundamentally more reliable than gasoline engines, with far fewer moving parts and no oily residue or combustion byproducts to gum up the works, then our warranty policy should reflect that.

To investors in Tesla, I must acknowledge that this will have a moderately negative effect on Tesla earnings in the short term, as our warranty reserves will necessarily have to increase above current levels. This is amplified by the fact that we are doing so retroactively, not just for new customers. However, by doing the right thing for Tesla vehicle owners at this early stage of our company, I am confident that it will work out well in the long term.

– Elon"

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Dump The Pump: Powered By Lithium - Calculate the Cost to Drive an Electric Car. $TSLA $KNDI $ILC.v $TNR.v $LIT

Kirill Klip.:

Powered By Lithium: Calculate the Cost to Drive an Electric Car.

  

  Among many other questions we have discussed on this blog, the economic benefits of electric cars are among the most important for them to take our roads in numbers by storm. Now you can easily calculate your own economic incentive of being green:

UC DAVIS: EV Explorer.

Elon Musk With Tesla Gigafactory Starts The Race To Secure Supply Of Lithium Batteries And Lithium.

International Lithium Presentation May 2014 from Kirill Klip

 "I would like to share with you the very interesting summary from  Seeking Apha on this subject. It confirms my personal observations of the investment and M&A trends in our Lithium industry today. I will share with you few quotes and links which will help you to understand International Lithium strategy and, what is very important, how our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium sees this megatrends from the ground of the world's biggest auto market in the world in China. Read more"

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ECT.coop:

Calculate the Cost to Drive an Electric Car

By Michael W. Kahn | ECT Staff WriterPublished: August 8th, 2014

So you’re thinking about buying an electric car, but can’t help wonder whether you’ll really be saving money.  A new online tool helps you figure out what the cost to drive from point A to point B in any four vehicles, whether they’re gasoline-fueled, pure electric or plug-in hybrids. 

The EV Explorer is the brainchild of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. 

“Just enter your start and finish commute locations and frequency of travel, and the yearly energy costs for the four vehicles will instantly appear side-by-side,” Michael Nicholas, lead researcher at the institute’s Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Research Center, wrote in a blog post. 

The EV Explorer can compare cars as new as model year 2015 and as old as 1984. It allows users to enter several variables, including the kilowatt-hour price they pay for electricity, the local cost of gasoline, and how frequently they make the trip. 

“You can even specify the location of a public charging station you use and its charging price to get an accurate cost for public charger use,” Nicholas added.

ECT.coop put the EV Explorer to the test on two staff commutes. 

One is a 34-mile roundtrip, made five days a week in a 2010 Toyota Yaris. Figuring gasoline at $3.43 per gallon, and a Dominion Virginia Power rate of 7 cents per kilowatt-hour, with all charging done at home, the EV Explorer calculated that: 

• The annual gasoline cost for the Yaris is $856

• Making the trip in a 2014 Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid (PHEV) would cost $418 ($359 in gas and $59 in electricity)

• The commute in a 2014 Chevrolet Volt PHEV would cost $217 strictly for electricity

• The commute in an all-electric 2014 Nissan Leaf would cost $186

ECT.coop then looked at a second staffer commuting 77 miles roundtrip, five days a week, in a 2005 Acura RL. He pays $3.95 for high-octane gas, and as a member of Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative pays about 10 cents per kwh. With all charging done at home, EV Explorer determined that: 

• The annual gasoline cost for the Acura is $3,162

• A 2014 Chevy Volt PHEV would cut that to $1,169 ($823 for gas and $346 for electricity)

• In a 2014 Toyota Prius PHEV the cost would fall to $1,113 ($1,030 for gas and $83 for electricity)

• The all-electric Nissan Leaf would get the cost down to $601 

“Even though it was designed for California and the United States, it can work anywhere in the world, by finding a close fuel economy match to any of the more than 34,000 vehicles in the fueleconomy.gov database and, of course, by converting to metric,” Nicholas noted. ECT.coop."

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Lithium Batteries Gigafactory: Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company $TSLA $ILC.v $TNR.v $LIT

Kirill Klip:

Lithium Batteries Gigafactory: Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company

  

  Morgan Stanley is very vocal about the coming disruption to trillion dollar industries. Cheaper lithium batteries will enable not only mass market for electric cars, but the distributed power generation. Wind and solar power can be used with the existing grid. Every household potentially becomes the power plant and you can use this power for your own electric car. 

  China is the leading wind and solar power generation country in the world now and moving fast to secure the supply for strategic commodities for this green economy: Lithium and REE.

Elon Musk With Tesla Gigafactory Starts The Race To Secure Supply Of Lithium Batteries And Lithium.

International Lithium Presentation May 2014 from Kirill Klip

 "I would like to share with you the very interesting summary from  Seeking Apha on this subject. It confirms my personal observations of the investment and M&A trends in our Lithium industry today. I will share with you few quotes and links which will help you to understand International Lithium strategy and, what is very important, how our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium sees this megatrends from the ground of the world's biggest auto market in the world in China. Read more"

Powered by Lithium: Clean Electric Cars - Renewables to Get Most of $7.7 Trillion Power Investments

Is Tesla, Apple and Foxconn A Match Made In Heaven To Make Electric Apple iCar Under $15k?

Where On Earth All The Lithium Will Come From?

Motherboard:

Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company

"ENERGY STORAGE, WHEN COMBINED WITH SOLAR POWER, COULD DISRUPT UTILITIES IN THE US AND EUROPE TO THE EXTENT CUSTOMERS MOVE TO AN OFF-GRID APPROACH"

There's a reason that power companies are attacking rooftop solar across the nation: They see those silicon panels as nothing short of an existential threat. As the cost of solar continues to fall, and more people opt for the distributed power offered by solar, there will be less demand for big power plants and the utilities that operate them. And one major investment giant has now released three separate reports arguing that Tesla Motors is going to help kill power companies off altogether. 

Earlier this year, Morgan Stanley stirred up controversy when it released a reportthat suggested that the increasing viability of consumer solar, paired with better battery technology—that allows people to generate, and store, their own electricity—could send the decades-old utility industry into a death spiral. Then, the firm released another one, further emphasizing the points made in the first. Now, it's tripling down on the idea with yet another report that spells out how Tesla and home solar will "disrupt" utilities. 

“There may be a 'tipping point' that causes customers to seek an off-grid approach," the March report argued. "The more customers move to solar, the [more the] remaining utility customers' bills will rise, creating even further 'headroom' for Tesla’s off-grid approach.”

Yes, Tesla Motors, everyone's favorite electric car company. And that's where the controversy comes in. Morgan Stanley breathlessly pegged Tesla as “the most important auto company in the world" in part because its electric car business was pushing it to develop better energy storage technology, and then mass manufacture said batteries. That's exactly what Tesla CEO Elon Musk and company will be doing at  its forthcoming Gigafactory, which it is building in the Southwest with Panasonic. 

With the new manufacturing facility, Morgan Stanley reasons, Tesla stands to double its business (adding another $2 billion in revenue) by selling the lithium ion batteries it typically ships under the hood of a Model S to homeowners with solar panels, too. If consumers can store energy the panels generate during the day for use at night, it would ostensibly render the need for utilities to pipe in faraway power—and their electric bills—obsolete. Read more on Motherboard."

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