Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

A case in point is intelligent speed assistance, which Ford has offered in Europe on the S-Max since 2015 and on the more affordable Focus since 2017 , well before the EU had even decided to make it mandatory. “In America has done very little ,” says Curtis. Some people, however, kind of like being nannied. That puts U.S.

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EV Adoption

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In short, I’m predicting what I call the “overcharging of America.”. But as I outlined in my recent article, How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America? , True, and that is where affordable workplace and retail/mall charging also come into play. And that use case is charging while on road trips.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of these organizations.]. The forty cities that are in the Clinton Climate Initiative’s C40 group have municipal fleets with the capacity to buy every EV produced in 2011 and possibly 2012 as well. Trains were very efficient at moving long distance mail.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Regardless, once the $7,500 tax credit is accounted for, and the much lower maintenance costs, these should be about the same as buying a gas car, only the fuel will be less than a dollar a gallon equivalent. Buying one of these will cost about half what the Tesla Model S will cost and you can get it a full year earlier.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Funny that this article cites “a shortage of public charging stations&# as the sole reason for auto makers scrapping electric vehicles in the 1990s. Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. By Dana Hull.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Mark Perry, Nissan North America’s Director of Product Planning, says Seattle is part of a DOE project to place 2,500 charging stations to the Puget Sound region this summer. Read the full text of the entire article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. Nissan expects the Leaf to be the first affordable, all-electric car.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. In the final article of the series, we explore potential unanticipated consequences of transitioning to EVs at scale.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 23, 2024

Having followed the electric bicycle industry for 15 years and running, I can pretty much guarantee you that there has never been a better time than right now to buy an e-bike. E-bike prices are at all-time lows It’s true, essentially every single electric bike brand in North America (and many in Europe) have some amazing deals right now.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 23, 2024

Having followed the electric bicycle industry for 15 years and running, I can pretty much guarantee you that there has never been a better time than right now to buy an e-bike. E-bike prices are at all-time lows It’s true, essentially every single electric bike brand in North America (and many in Europe) have some amazing deals right now.

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 19, 2021

That is, the credit amount is reduced to $0 if the MSRP for the vehicle is more than $80,000. – Clean Energy Act for America. But a cap at $80,000 doesn’t really help achieve this goal but really will likely just end up making $90,000 and $100,000 EVs more affordable to those who can afford them.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

WEBSTER • FREE PRESS AUTOMOTIVE EDITOR• April 21, 2009 Print this page E-mail this article Share this article Del.icio.us Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. See instructions for fixing the problem. WEBSTER A 100 m.p.g.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2024

Let’s just face it, America. And at just US $11,900, the Eli Zero is finally an LSV that is affordable compared to most of the offerings we’ve seen in the past. The pricing also makes them incredibly affordable as a replacement for a real car. Not only are they cheaper to buy outright, but they’re also much cheaper to own.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

In North America, the EX30 is small enough that four full-size American adults will find it too tight for more than short trips. It should do well in European markets that know the brand, buy lots of B-segment cars (also more and more utility vehicles), and now eagerly opt for electric powertrains. The EX30 will be a big part of that.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the last article we discussed ‘How to win the EV race’ as a company and today we are going to look at ‘How a Country can win the Electrification Race ‘ and get the most out of It. This includes battery technology, electric drivetrains, and other components to improve efficiency, range, and affordability.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

The Breeze got their own headline wrong since Bradley isn’t a “Torrance man&# he lives in Rancho Palos Verdes where his business is based, as it says in paragraph five of their article, but you’ve got to cut them some slack because their legacy ship is sinking. Yeah, they can afford it. We do all the paperwork.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

In North America, the EX30 is small enough that four full-size American adults will find it too tight for more than short trips. It should do well in European markets that know the brand, buy lots of B-segment cars (also more and more utility vehicles), and now eagerly opt for electric powertrains. The EX30 will be a big part of that.

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Charged EVs

MAY 19, 2021

Other models will follow—General Motors has promised to sell a dozen or more EVs in North America by 2025. GM sells more vehicles in China than it does in North America, so it was clear that its Chinese lineup would need a greater variety of battery-electric vehicles. They’ll arrive at Chevy dealers in volume this summer.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

In America, Defenders have typically been weekend playthings for boomers with fond memories of. It’s also about having your cake and eating it too—at least for people who can afford the rich frosting. This article appears in the May 2022 print issue as “Tesla Inside.”. We could all get by with a 1.6-liter liter petrol engine.

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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. — Goodbye 2.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

There are separate provisions for 2 & 3-wheeled EVs, electric bikes, and used 4-wheeled EVs — of which this article will not cover. For more background and detail on changing to refundable tax credit, read my article from September — Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 5: Making the Credit Refundable.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 6, 2022

I received some great feedback on one of my recent articles from Todd Malan, Chief External. So, Manchin isn’t just telling automakers to buy from domestic sources of minerals and metals from domestic sources and leaving it to them. Todd read my article, Automakers are not too happy with Senator Manchin’s EV tax credit.

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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). Lucid’s sedans currently start at over $80,000, and Rivian’s pickups start at $72,500.

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Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2024

We’re improving the affordability of EVs. We have our factory in Fremont is currently the highest-volume auto factory in North America. But for commercial vehicles, the companies that make the buying decisions, they just look and say like, “What are the numbers? The batteries are lasting a lot longer, which is good.

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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. They leased a few (at a loss) to those that could afford it.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

But instead of just de facto banning the competition from giving Americans access to affordable hot new EVs, the US should instead try making affordable hot new EVs itself. It offers tax credits to EV purchasers, as long as those EVs include domestically-sourced components and are assembled in North America.

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