FROM THE GLOBE AND MAIL: I visited Volkswagen’s electric-car skunk works in Silicon Valley last week and there to my surprise was the co-Founder and former CEO of Tesla Motors. Mark Eberhard suffered a very public sacking from Tesla a couple of years ago at the hands of the company’s major financial backer and current CEO, Elon Musk. Eberhard is now on the VeeDub payroll working on batteries for the future VW electric car.
Eberhard has been one of Silicon Valley’s bright lights since the mid-1980s as a computer engineer with a number of successful startups under his belt and untold millions in the bank. He is brash, outspoken and supremely confident in his opinions. “It is just barely possible to build an electric car today. You can only make a certain type of car and only for a certain type of people.” The problem is the batteries, I presume. “It’s ALL about the batteries,” said Eberhard. MORE»
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