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Electric Car Watch #12: The sad state of Electric Car conversions in India

Plug In India

Your electric car will also be more reliable and require much less maintenance than a pollution car. Unless you happen to have a few crores lying around that you don't mind spending, you will have to wait for kit providers who are willing and can afford to spend big bucks on certification. Sounds utopian, right?

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Berkeley study finds clean vehicle rebates have predominantly benefited wealthy, white Californians

Green Car Congress

They used ordinary least squares (OLS) and negative binomial regressions to identify the definitive effect that income played in obtaining rebates. Carsharing programs have the potential to reduce localized pollution and can be an inexpensive transportation alternative. —Rubin and St-Louis (2016).

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

Plug In India

T hese EV cynics and naysayers don’t believe in the EV revolution or have an incentive to keep using pollution vehicles. We don’t know who these people are, but they are definitely scared and afraid to change. By 2030, most people will choose to buy EV's as it won’t make financial sense to buy a pollution car.

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Electric Car Watch #13: The OLA Electric Car Concept Revealed

Plug In India

Futurefoundry will work in close collaboration with our headquarters in Bangalore, India to help us build the future of mobility as we make EVs affordable across the world." "We Boorish tweets by Pollution Vehicle Media Of course the car announcement from OLA electric has shaken many journalists from the Pollution Vehicle media.

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China puts its electric vehicles on center stage - China automotive news

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Alternative-fuel cars were some of the hottest items on display at the Shanghai auto show from homegrown companies like Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., Making electric vehicles affordable will be critical for them to have an impact on the environment, as vehicle ownership continues to rise quickly. Gasgoo.com | ?? |

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. So it’s definitely not a simple as choosing the Tesla sedan over the Volt.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. I think that our No.

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