Tavares EU CO2 Critique Finds Support, But Environmentalists Disagree. “What is clear is that electrification is a technology chosen by politicians, not by industry,” Leaders of the European auto industry are almost at one in carrying out politicians’ orders without question that a climate change emergency demands swift action to cut carbon dioxide using battery […]
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Electric Cars Unaffordable For Many, But Retrofitting Could Be The Answer.
Electric Cars Unaffordable For Many, But Retrofitting Could Be The Answer. “The conversion provides 100 km of range a maximum speed of 110 km ideal for a city car which will only be used for local commuting, the school run and shopping” Europeans on average earnings will soon be forced out of their cars and […]
Jaguar Gambles On Remerging As Electric But Pricey, After Self-imposed Limbo
Jaguar Gambles On Remerging As Electric But Pricey, After Self-imposed Limbo. “The idea would be to produce between 10,000 and 20,000 cars each year at prices above €150,000 ($170,000)” While Jaguar reimagines its all-electric future, there’s a danger potential customers may have forgotten about the storied but ailing sports car maker by the time new, […]
Electric Car Crusaders Must Acknowledge Problems Or The Revolution Will Fail
Electric Car Crusaders Must Acknowledge Problems Or The Revolution Will Fail. While electric car sales continue to boom in Europe and politicians speed the demise of conventional engines, the media reports a steady drumbeat of dissatisfaction from those actually driving with battery power, which needs to be addressed for the advance to continue. Battery electric […]
Quentin Willson’s 250-Mile Electric Car Range Claim Looks A Stretch
Quentin Willson’s 250-Mile Electric Car Range Claim Looks A Stretch. Former motoring journalist and electric car campaigner Quentin Willson was interviewed by Nigel Farage on GBNews and claimed that a 250-mile round trip in an electric car nowadays would be no problem. In my experience that isn’t very likely, especially if high-speed motorway driving accounted […]
Booming Electric Car Sales In Europe May Soon Face A Reality Check
Booming Electric Car Sales In Europe May Soon Face A Reality Check. “A hole will form in the range of European carmakers, with no one producing small vehicles. This may turn out to be an incentive for the development of non-European carmakers in Europe, in particular Chinese carmakers” Sales of battery electric cars in Europe […]
BMW Electric Strategy Under The Microscope As i4 Sedan, iX SUV Hit Dealerships
BMW Electric Strategy Under The Microscope As i4 Sedan, iX SUV Hit Dealerships. “the BMW iX only achieved 66% of the specified WLTP range. With the Tesla Model Y Long Range it is 85%. This underlines the shortcomings of the latest BMW generation as a hybrid platform. Tesla, Porsche, Mercedes, but also Chinese like NIO […]
Citroen Unveils Electric Buggy Concept Based On the Ami City Car
Citroen Unveils Electric Buggy Concept Based On the Ami City Car. “It looks to me as though it could be a perfect golf buggy” Citroen’s cut little Ami electric runabout doesn’t quite fill the yawning gap in the European market which calls for a cheap as chips electric city car, but its Buggy Concept will […]
Investors Happy As Toyota Accelerates Electric Plans
Investors Happy As Toyota Accelerates Electric Plans. “We want to leave all people with a choice, and rather than where or what we will focus on, we will wait a little longer until we understand where the market is going. If we provide the correct solution for the average person we won’t have the correct […]
Genesis Plans European Expansion But Odds Are Stacked Against Success
Genesis Plans European Expansion But Odds Are Stacked Against Success. “While Genesis has its own unique look, it is still just a traditional, albeit high quality, product under the surface from an unrecognized brand” Hyundai’s wannabe upmarket subsidiary Genesis is bravely going where almost no one has gone before, as it seeks European premium sector […]