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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Women tend to buy smaller vehicles boasting lower MSRPs than their male counterparts. As of 2021, they were also more prone to head to the used market and decidedly less inclined to buy something brand new.

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What Kind of Cars Do Women Actually Want?

The Truth About Cars

However, saying that this is the vehicle women most desire — let alone are willing to spend money buying — is probably a stretch. Women tend to buy smaller vehicles boasting lower MSRPs than their male counterparts. As of 2021, they were also more prone to head to the used market and decidedly less inclined to buy something brand new.

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Study: Giant Pickups and SUVs More Dangerous to Pedestrians, Obviously

The Truth About Cars

I started bringing up the matter in 2018, citing relevant studies dating back to 2004 , to hypothesize that increased roadway fatalities might have something to do with modern vehicle designs. The above reads like someone who has just been exposed to automobiles and has zero experience with the industry. Probably not.

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Daimler buys stake in Tesla

Green Cars News

In 2004, Tesla began development of its first electric vehicle, the Roadster, which remains the only highway capable EV for sale in North America or Europe. In 2010 the company will introduce its first battery-powered Mercedes-Benz. This green supercar accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

Cars That Think

This inexpensive inertial-measurement sensor was the first such device to be incorporated into automobiles, enabling electronic stability-control (ESC) systems to detect skidding and operate the brakes to prevent rollover accidents. But several people wanted to buy us, and one, Schneider Electric, was relentless. the GyroChip.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Where Can I Buy One? Westbrook, 2001 "Gasoline to Electric Conversion Manual: A Workshop Guide for High Schools", published by the Electric Vehicle Society of Canada, July 2005 "History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid electric vehicles", by Ernest H. Learn About Plug-ins What Are Plug-ins? 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). People wont buy a full car.

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