Tesla IPO: 12 Things You Should Know

Tesla Motors, by filing on Friday for a long-awaited initial public offering, has unleashed a flood of facts and figures about its business, strategy, future plans and more than a few challenges.

In the hours after the 7-year-old startup first filed its prospectus with the SEC, we laid out the company’s financials, noted the significance of [...]

Clean Web Design Boosts Clean Tech

Dan Antonson is the founder of the Revived Group, a web designer whose forte is trust and credibility studies. We asked a few questions that new technology companies can implement to improve their web presence.
CleanTechies: New technology companies are known for something called “vaporware,” i.e., outlandish promises for devices and software that may or may [...]

New Ideas to Sustain Renewable Energies in Central America

Twenty-six projects have won funding of up to $200,000 each to develop their concepts in the 2009 IDEAS Energy Challenge. Jointly sponsored by Global Village Energy Partnership International, GTZ, IDB and the Government of Korea, the competition supports project ideas which demonstrate an innovative response to tackling the energy challenges facing Latin America and the [...]

Tesla’s Betting the Farm on the Model S, and Other Fun Facts From Its S-1

After reading over electric vehicle startup Tesla’s S-1 filing on Friday, after it filed for an IPO to raise up to $100 million, it’s clear that Tesla has a few things in spades: a stellar brand, lots of losses, and pretty much a single plan to generate profits in the coming years, the Model S. [...]

Tesla IPO: Electric Car Startup Files for $100M Public Offering, Finally

Tesla Motors, the electric car startup, has just registered with the SEC for a $100 million initial public offering. This is the first public offering for a U.S. car company since Ford Motor’s IPO more than 50 years ago.

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