Teslarati
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Elon Musk has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as its 2021 Person of the Year. The award, which the magazine gives to an individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or worse, has been ongoing for nearly a century. But he’s different: he’s a manufacturing magnate—moving metal, not bytes.
Plug In India
MARCH 15, 2023
The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The Lithium extraction industry is open to more sustainable raw-material extraction. link] A typical passenger vehicle emits about 5.07
Revenge of the Electric Car
MAY 17, 2010
advocacy group Plug In America.&#. Despite a surge in interest, electric cars may remain niche products in the world’s two largest auto markets. . Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 22, 2009
Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. They reality always seems to be just a few years away, the magazine complained. Americas big gas guzzlers and polluters are not the cars that about half the country drives around.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
“Any new technology like the Chevy Volt takes time to become profitable,&# said Jay Friedland, the legislative director for Plug-In America , an electric-car advocacy group. Currently there are only about 1,500 500 plug-in hybrids and 500 1,500 pure electric cars, according to Plug-In America. and Chrysler. .&# and Chrysler.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Visionary Vehicles Team w/Malcolm Bricklin (who brought the Subaru and the Yugo to America) aims for luxury PHEV. —Jim Press, president of Toyota Motor North America, first non-Japanese member of Toyota Motors Board of Directors in exclusive interview at Edmunds.coms. Raising money to bring a PHEV to market. Hell, yes," he says.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0
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