EVTV Friday Show - August 28, 2015

- Tesla reaches 500 charge stations
- Adapting half shafts/axles to a single speed gearbox
- Tesla Drive Unit update
- New Zealand Electric Miata
- 1978 Electric Land Rover

Building a Tesla Supercharger !

Very instructive video time lapse on the building of a Tesla SuperCharger station from ground up

Check this out !

"The Project Managers at Electric Conduit Construction were excited to learn that they were the successful bidder on a Tesla Supercharger station. The project was located in Goodland, Kansas and was one of a chain of stations being built across the country to make long distance travel by electric vehicle a reality"

"All Our Patents Belong To You" | Blog | Tesla Motors

During the Tesla shareholder meeting last week, CEO Elon Musk gave a few hints on this new move: This week he declared that all the patents at Tesla will be available to boost the spread of EVs

As usual, he did this via Tesla Motors's blog (link below) and this news got thousands of likes, as you can imagine, congratulations from all EV enthousiasts around the world whithin few hours

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

I also wrote few lines to congratulate him on this smart move saying that Mr Tesla would have been proud of him

This will hopefully accelerate the development of EVs, compatible with Tesla's leading technology, including the SuperCharger and Energy Storage which is more and more used on these sites

Tesla Motors Sizzle Reel

A cool video from Tesla Motors on Tesla Motors

Created for the 2014 World Energy Innovation Forum, this short video showcases all things Tesla in just under two minutes 

Enjoy !