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Automotive Market Research Perspectives on Selling Green in a Try-to-Survive Market

Green Car Congress

The role of emotion in buying cars. He shared research that “ People assume a quieter minivan is a safer minivan. Would you buy this vehicle? Edwards and Miller both emphasized the importance of a buyer’s emotion in purchasing a vehicle. How do you make a vehicle more quiet? Not exactly a value proposition.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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