New Demand for Electric Cars

Elon Musk helping...


A surge in demand for electric cars and pick-up trucks is upending the auto market and raising hopes for environmental progress within the car industry. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the developments and talks with environmental activist, educator, and author Bill McKibben about the electric car boom, energy efficiency, and the interplay of government policy and industry innovation. McKibben credits government incentives as key to pushing the auto industry, at the state and federal levels.


A surge in demand for electric cars and pick-up trucks is upending the auto market and raising hopes for environmental progress within the car industry. MSNBC’s Ari Melber


reports on the developments and talks with environmental activist, educator, and author Bill McKibben about the electric car boom, energy efficiency, and the interplay of government


policy and industry innovation. McKibben credits government incentives as key to pushing the auto industry, at the state and federal levels.

Elon Musk helping?

Is Elon Musk helping the planet more than Greenpeace? MSNBC reports on electric car boom


As multiple Elon Musk books have been published, consider:

Tesla, Inc.

Power Play: Tesla, Inc.


Tesla, Inc. (/ˈtɛslə/ TESS-lə or /ˈtɛzlə/ TEZ-lə[b]) is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company based in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla is one of the world's most valuable companies and remains the world's most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of nearly US$1 trillion. The company had the most worldwide sales of battery electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles, capturing 23% of the battery-electric (purely electric) market and 16% of the plug-in market (which includes plug-in hybrids) in 2020.

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Tesla Energy,

Through its subsidiary Tesla Energy, the company develops and is a major installer of photovoltaic systems in the United States. Tesla Energy is also one of the largest global suppliers of battery energy storage systems, with 3.99 gigawatt-hours (GWh) installed in 2021.

Tesla Energy,

Founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors, the company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla.

Tesla Energy,

In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, X.com co-founder Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company and its chairman.

Elon Musk has served as CEO since 2008. According to Musk, the purpose of Tesla is to help expedite the move to sustainable transport and energy, obtained through electric vehicles and solar power. Tesla began production of its first car model, the Roadster sports car, in 2009.

This was followed by the Model S sedan in 2012,

the Model X SUV in 2015,

the Model 3 sedan in 2017,

and the Model Y crossover in 2020.

the Model 3 sedan in 2017,

The Model 3 is the all-time best-selling plug-in electric car worldwide, and, in June 2021, became the first electric car to sell 1 million units globally.

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Power Play: Tesla, Inc.

Tesla's global sales were 936,222 cars in 2021, a 87% increase over the previous year, and cumulative sales totaled 2.3 million cars at the end of 2021.

In October 2021, Tesla's market capitalization reached $1 trillion, the sixth company to do so in U.S. history.

Power Play: Tesla, Inc.
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