Tesla Motors had its IPO today on the NASDAQ stock exchange, raising more than $226 million in an offering of 13.3 million shares. It is the first U.S. automobile IPO since Ford began trading publically more than 50 years ago. Tesla, whose founder Elon Musk started and has enjoyed success in companies such as [...]
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No Comments »While the means to alternatively power cars seems to be converging towards “plug-in” battery powered electrics, Mercedes recently announced that it is bucking the trend by continuing on a production path for its B-Class F-CELL hydrogen fuel cell powered electric car. The B-Class, when it goes into small scale production in 2010, will have a [...]
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