Ten years ago, Ian Wright was trying to electrify the sports car with a startup he helped create — Tesla Motors. Now the entrepreneur has set his sights on delivery vehicles and garbage trucks ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Ian Wright and a few tech-minded buddies got together about a decade ago bent on creating a fast and cool electric car. They called the company Tesla Motors.

Yet it’s these rolling refuse haulers that are the focus of Tesla co-founder Ian Wright, who laid […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 62°F. Thursday, June 5th 2025 ...

New Zealander Ian Wright was one of the three original founders of Tesla Motors in 2003 and helped get Elon Musk to back the company the following year. But while Wright says Tesla has done "quite ...

Tesla Motors co-founder Ian Wright isn't very typical of a lot of the people at ACT Expo, the alternative fuels for transportation conference, where I spoke with him in early May.

"Consumer automobiles don’t burn enough fuel," Wright explains to Quartz. "Family cars burn about 600 gallons a year. If you make that [car] electric you are going to add $15,000, at least, to ...

Wrightspeed, which is targeting garbage and delivery trucks, plans to grow by a factor of more than 12 by 2018. Tesla co-founder Ian Wright still doubts potential for mass electric car market ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Twelve years ago, Ian Wright and some fellow engineers launched Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley company that has helped jump-start the market for electric cars. Now, the Tesla ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – A Silicon Valley company could become the Tesla of the commercial truck world. The company called Wrightspeed is converting dirty trucks into clean, electric machines. On the ...

Ian Wright says he never thought the idea of making an electric vehicle for mass consumption would work. Tesla co-founder Ian Wright, now CEO of a California company that makes parts that convert ...