But Mobile Phone Sales Performance Is A Reminder To Avoid Hubris “We are in the very early stage of power-train electrification, but we see this as being no less than a minimum 20 year plus road – and very easily much longer than that” You would think that as more innovative and high-technology electric vehicles […]
Europe’s Faltering Economy, Engine Improvements Undermine Case Bad News For Renault-Nissan And Its $5.6 Billion Investment “The critical nature of the government credit problems plaguing Europe poses a material threat to the necessary government support for EVs which we had previously taken for granted” Investment bank Morgan Stanley came up with a nasty new Year […]
Road Tests So Far Shed No Light On Range Claims Electric sports car maker Tesla Motors’ latest investor schmoozing programme was carried out successfully, with most participants in its Model S ride event in Fremont, California expressing admiration for the progress the company is making. Investors drove the four-door Model S, scheduled for launch in […]
Battery Car Sales Barely Register, Hammered By Price, Range Anxiety Hybrids Will Be Most Important High Tech Sector Could Weird Little Renault Twizy Be Most Popular Electric Vehicle? “Why don’t manufacturers produce a cheap and cheerful improved golf-cart with no pretensions about being a car, with limited shopping or school-run capability?” “A gasoline hybrid would […]
Germans Distinctly Wary Of Electric Cars, Don’t Like Range, Price China Looks Like Slashing Its Battery Only Target Hundreds of thousands of Germans are expected to throng by the exhibits at the biennial Frankfurt Car Show next month and most manufacturers will be showing their latest ideas on electric cars as well as their most […]
Leaf’s Battery-Only Case So Weak, It Threatens Edsel-Like Debacle Derision From Top Gear, Sunday Times Story Will Make Buyers Wary “The Prius and the Volt don’t promise a perfect solution to the problems of emissions, but they provide a sensible, practical compromise”. I’ve been driving the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid, a new high-technology fuel-efficient car […]
Ford Worries About Regulation Forcing Manufacturing Out E.U. Obsessed With Battery Cars Which Need Subsidies To Flourish European Union automotive industry policy ideas threaten to undermine manufacturing and its obsession with battery-only cars would force what looks like a cul-de-sac technology on the buying public. The problem of huge price and limited ability of battery-only […]
VW Thinks Car Buyers Might Be Able To Rent Out Their Cars “Has there ever been a new technology so unappealing to the public that huge amounts of public money was needed to move it off the shelves, with curbs on the competition too?” COLOGNE, Germany – The battery-powered Nissan Leaf’s range is no longer an […]
Concessions Would Help Electric Car Drivers, But Antagonize The Rest All Cars Could Be Electric By 2030, Says One Proselytizer U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) edicts are based on flimsy ground. Predictions about the future of electric cars are all over the place, suggesting more than a degree of uncertainty about their likely […]
Could Be Fourth Largest Vehicle Maker In U.S. Production Might Hit 500,000 By 2025, Profits $1.2 Billion Report By Morgan Stanley, Which Organized Tesla’s 2010 Share Sale Battery-powered cars will be a great success, providing affordable and practical transport for millions, and will save the world from global warming. Battery-powered cars are a ridiculous con-trick […]
