Next Phase Of Electric Car Sales Could Expose Neglect Of Affordable Vehicles. “The Chinese are taking aim at the middle to expensive part of the market. No sign yet of aiming at the mass market. When they do the heart of European autos will be threatened” It’s easy to sell electric cars to relatively wealthy […]
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Insistence Electric Cars Must Win Risks Wasting Valuable ICE Technology
Insistence Electric Cars Must Win Risks Wasting Valuable ICE Technology. “In other words, the future is eclectic” Governments declaring they know best and nominating electric cars alone to lead the race to be green are in danger of wasting valuable and proven resources provided by internal combustion engines (ICE) linked to batteries, and hybrid technology […]
Lithium Shortage May Stall Electric Car Revolution
Lithium Shortage May Stall Electric Car Revolution. “They ignore the trillion-ton elephant in the room. Carbon-free power and gasoline-free transportation cannot exist without mining an absurd amount of lithium” The electric car revolution will stall in the West if supplies of crucial battery elements like lithium fail to keep up with the forecast huge increase […]
BMW, Like Mercedes, Manages To Raise Profits While Sales Slide
BMW, Like Mercedes, Manages To Raise Profits While Sales Slide. “the auto industry is currently divided between the likes of VW and supplier Hella who have been forced to make profit warnings, and the likes of BMW and Mercedes” BMW pleased investors with a 50% increase in 3rd quarter profits and joined Mercedes in managing […]
Can Cheap Mini-Electric Cars Bailout European Carmakers?
Can Cheap Mini-Electric Cars Bailout European Carmakers? Mini-electric cars promise something that current electric cars are incapable of; buyers will want them, not because they are forced into them by governments Grandstanding European politicians are accelerating the sales ban on petrol and diesel cars to 2030, paying scant attention to the unintended consequences, but maybe […]
Will The Renault, Nissan Alliance Flourish Or Whither?
Will The Renault, Nissan Alliance Flourish Or Whither? “Renault is still without a leader. The new CEO Luca de Meo, hired from VW’s SEAT, is still on gardening leave and won’t take control until July” News is expected this week which will either cement the Renault-Nissan alliance for the foreseeable future, or send its French […]
Could Hydrogen Fuel Cells Revive, Threaten Batteries?
Could Hydrogen Fuel Cells Revive, Threaten Batteries? “Fool’s Cells not Fuel Cells” and “mind-bogglingly stupid” Autos with hydrogen fuel cells could eventually accelerate past battery powered ones because of their ability to provide environmentally friendly transport with almost unlimited green energy, zealots for the technology say, but there are some huge hurdles to jump over […]
Coronavirus Upheaval Generates Conflicting Scenarios
Coronavirus Upheaval Generates Conflicting Scenarios. JLR, Renault Ford Europe Exposed. Automotive industry chaos in Europe induced by the coronavirus shutdown has environmental extremists dreaming of the end of the private car and a public transport heyday, while at the other end of the spectrum motoring addicts say fear of infection will generate a new golden […]
Is This, Finally, The Affordable Electric Car?
Is This, Finally, The Affordable Electric Car? “Isn’t there an option staring us in the face, in the form of a basic golf-cart, with a more powerful battery and adding windows and doors?” The electric car revolution won’t succeed until new battery-only vehicles are affordable to average income buyers and a sneak preview ahead of […]
Ghosn Escape From Japan Prompts Official Collusion Theory
Ghosn Escape From Japan Prompts Official Collusion Theory. “Japanese prosecutors will be furious, at least in public” Carlos Ghosn, detained in Tokyo for just over a year, appeared in Lebanon after apparently avoiding tough bail conditions and police supervision, suggesting to some that it couldn’t have happened without official collusion. Ghosn was arrested November 19, […]