British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has declined to comment on reports he is considering building electric cars at South Australia’s shuttered Holden factory.
South Australia’s first “Tesla supercharger” points for electric vehicles opened today – the start of a state-wide charging network the company promised as part of the deal to win the State Government’s “world’s largest battery” tender.
James Dyson, the billionaire British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, said on Tuesday his company was working on developing an electric car to be launched by 2020.
European car bosses gathering for the Frankfurt auto show are beginning to address the realities of mass vehicle electrification, and its consequences for jobs and profit, their minds focused by government pledges to outlaw the combustion engine.