Category: Electric Cars
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Harley Davidson Looking at Electric Bikes to Save the Day / Companies / Electric Cars
By: Rodney_Johnson
My father had a Harley in the mid-1980s, which I would ride from time to time. It was an ’83 Sportster, and it leaked oil, and the electrical system would cut off when you turned a corner.
Back then that was called “character.” Today, we’d call it sloppy workmanship.
Insiders bought the company from conglomerate AMF in the early 1980s, and by the end of the decade they’d returned the storied brand to its historical place – a well-made American icon.
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
What’s the Real Problem with Tesla? / Companies / Electric Cars
By: Rodney_Johnson
Bonds are an interesting financial animal.With stocks, investors become part owners of a company, albeit usually at a very, very small level. We benefit as the company earns more revenue and profit, hopefully sending some of the cash back to us in the form of dividends, or using the funds to grow the company or, these days, buy back stock.
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Monday, March 19, 2018
This Tech Breakthrough Could Save The Electric Car Market / Companies / Electric Cars
By: OilPrice_Com
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Could This Be The End for Tesla? / Companies / Electric Cars
By: Rodney_Johnson
Tesla, the nifty electric car company, and its larger-than-life founder, Elon Musk, proved something.People around the world will pay gobs of money for very cool electric cars, even if they have limited range and take forever to charge. Americans in particular love new gadgets, and Teslas are the biggest gadgets of all.
Musk and company also proved something else.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2017
Tesla, Electric Metals Hot- Gold Cold / Companies / Electric Cars
By: Plunger
While gold has has been down and out the electric metals have been all the rage, especially the cobalt plays. Seems every month a new battery factory is announced and a new EV manufacturer announces its plans to enter the market. With additional automotive capacity entering the market the collateral damage this week was the darling of the sector- Tesla.
Tesla– is it finally time for the shorts to be taken off the intensive care list?
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Thursday, October 12, 2017
Tesla - Can A Company Be Great And A Great Short? / Companies / Electric Cars
By: John_Rubino
One of the fascinating things about financial bubbles is how they transform great companies into screaming short sale candidates. Put another way, bear markets tend to throw even the prettiest babies out with the bathwater.
Here, for instance, is what happened to Cisco Systems, the dominant maker of networking gear (the devices that run the Internet) when the 1990s tech stock bubble burst, bankrupting many of its customers and causing its earnings to miss expectations. Its stock fell by more than three-fourths and those who had bought it during the previous year’s euphoria got hosed.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2017
This Tech Breakthrough Will Save The Electric Car Market / Commodities / Electric Cars
By: OilPrice_Com
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Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Big Oil Betting On Electric Vehicles / Companies / Electric Cars
By: OilPrice_Com
Speaking this week at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York, Total SA's chief energy economist, Joel Couse, forecasted that EVs will make up 15 to 30 percent of global new vehicle sales by 2030.
Oil demand for transportation fuel see its "demand will flatten out," after 2030, Couse said. "Maybe even decline."
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Keeping The Electric Cars On The Road / Companies / Electric Cars
By: Andrew_McKillop
THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
Even if a large number of electric car producers - like Tesla Motor and Fisker Automotive - have major problems producing their cars, in the Fisker case having developed the ultimate dangerous car, the Karma which can burn under water and is banned from sale at present, the urgent pitch for all-electric cars continues. Favoured themes are that "we" must wean western society off oil and save the world's climate with "zero emission" cars (needing no fossil energy to produce, running on roads built with recycled bottle tops and organic household waste!), but the basic reason is a lot simpler.