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CapGemini: 87% of global consumers prefer personal vehicle to ensure safe travel, up from 57% in April 2020

Green Car Congress

This reflects a continuous shift in consumer preference towards personal mobility, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, as car ownership today is seen as a safeguard against the risk and spread of infection. Meanwhile, 78% of consumers will opt for using their personal vehicles over taking public transport.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., IBM CEO Frank T.

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Tesla? No. Merc… not yet. Why there’s not a single EV I would buy today

EV Central

– is what EV should I buy? Many people, who obviously mistakenly think that journalism is better paid than being a school teacher, or a cat groomer, follow this up with the secondary question of what EV I would buy, if I haven’t got one already.

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87% of US Tesla drivers say they’ll buy another Tesla

Baua Electric

Bloomberg Intelligence, the research arm of Bloomberg, interviewed 1,000 adults planning to buy or lease a brand-new car in the next year. (It Despite this, the market still has a long way to go to mature, with charging network inadequacy, range anxiety, and extended charging wait times topping the list of concerns for all car buyers.”

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Poll: Nearly Half of Americans "Unlikely" to Buy an EV As Next Vehicle

The Truth About Cars

A poll making the rounds this month suggests that almost half of Americans wouldn't buy an EV for their next vehicle purchase, due to a lack of reliable charging and high costs. Eighty percent said it was the lack of charging infrastructure that was the primary reason they wouldn't buy an EV.

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Comment on Nio exec reaffirms goal of entering US market by 2025 by nov22

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"My goal, and my commitment to this company, is I want all of us to buy a Nio car from our personal paycheck one day," Nio US CEO Ganesh Iyer said.

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Comment on Nio exec reaffirms goal of entering US market by 2025 by GustavoMan627

CN EV Post

"My goal, and my commitment to this company, is I want all of us to buy a Nio car from our personal paycheck one day," Nio US CEO Ganesh Iyer said.

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