23 July 2025

Marketplace: "What to expect in Tesla's Q2 results"

by Mitchell Hartman

And Tesla probably can’t count on expanding its foreign sales, said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, because Musk is politically toxic and his cars are too expensive.
“Germans have basically stopped buying Teslas altogether. Chinese aren’t buying Teslas in the first place,” he said. “Teslas simply cannot compete with the likes of the $10,000 to $12,000 BYD Seagull. It costs a quarter of what a Tesla costs.”

Batterien statt Kraftwerke

Deutschland hat es versäumt, eine konsequente Energiepolitik für die Zukunft zu machen. Stattdessen lähmt eine übervorsichtige Industriepolitik den Wandel. So bleibt man abhängig – von China und den USA.

8 Oct 25

Getting to Greener Steel

Coalbed methane is an underappreciated problem of global steel production. While cutting methane emissions in the steel supply chain will not produce green steel overnight, it could reduce the sector’s emissions by the equivalent of a billion tons of carbon annually, and at little cost.

25 Sep 25

Co-production as an Economically Feasible Pathway to Economy-Wide Electrification

by Cody E. Finke, Theodore G. Albertson, Ian McKay, Aravindh Rajan, Eric McFarland, Annelise Gill-Wiehl, Daniel M. Kammen, and Gernot Wagner

10 Sep 25