Affordable Alternative Fuels Chinese Fuel Economy 
Green Car Congress
MAY 13, 2014
To counter this trend triggered by China’s rapid motorization, the Chinese government is adopting a broad range of policies, including improvements in the fuel economy of new vehicles and the promotion of alternative-fuel vehicles, EIA notes. China vehicle sales and gasoline consumption. Source: EIA.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 1, 2021
If you track the history of Volvo, the Swedish (now Chinese-owned) company was famous for decades for its safe, solid, boxy sedans and wagons. Fuel economy for the Recharge is 55 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) when you use electricity and gasoline and drops to 27 mpg when you don’t charge up the battery.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 21, 2021
The Model 3 its affordable ($35,000 as it was originally advertised, though most have sold for more), smaller model changed everything. Bolts jolts the market with 200+ miles of range and an affordable price. Tesla found the volume (after some initial stumbles) that has moved the company toward fiscal stability.
Clean Fleet Report
APRIL 9, 2021
The secret is that Polestar is an electric performance brand from Volvo and its Chinese owner, Geely Holding. That will tell you how much energy your vehicle needs to travel 100 miles, a more accurate measurement than our traditional fuel economy (mpg) numbers. Still a bit of a mystery. Competitors. This brings up a point.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
ultra You might also like: Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More The Chinese BYD F3DM, First Mass Produced Electric Car, Fails with Consumers GM Ditches Volt for Geo Metro Hybrid? What I do need is an affordable alternative to Lead Acid. is a Green Options Media Production.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Before we were saying it will be an awfully long time before we can get the costs down so people can afford it, but actually if you offset the fuel costs, people can afford it." ( Green Car Congress ). It also may have a rheostat so drivers can select a performance or fuel-economy mode. Red Herring ).
Charged EVs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Some fear that the new rules will penalize startups such as Lucid and Rivian, which are selling pricey luxury vehicles, presumably as the first phase of an iterative strategy to work their way to more affordable EVs (as Tesla originally planned to do). For example, would batteries produced in the US by a Chinese company fall foul of the law?
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