Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2014

I regularly see a woman driving a Hummer 2 that easily weighs 50 times as much as she does. And new battery-heavy hybrid drives and electric cars will not be lighter: The small all-electric Ford Focus weighs 1.7 Vaclav Smil (2015) “Cars Weigh Too Much” Spectrum, IEEE vol.52, a modern bus, 5 or less; the Model T, 7.7;

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude. Fast forward to 2015, and we have largely blown through all of those predictions. GM has plans—for an electric Hummer of all things.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 91

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude. Fast forward to 2015, and we have largely blown through all of those predictions. GM has plans—for an electric Hummer of all things.

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Electric Vehicles Charging Vehicles Electric 89