Remove Affordable Remove Cheap Remove Dealers Remove Economy
article thumbnail

2023 Volkswagen Jetta Review – Getting the Basics Right

The Truth About Cars

Not necessarily in a bad way – nothing felt cheap. At least the promised fuel economy is on the high side – EPA numbers are 29/40/33. Sometimes you can’t afford better performance or more luxury, so you do the best you can. It’s just that there’s not much extraneous fluff. It can be a little noisy and thrashy when pushed, too.

article thumbnail

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

And oil only seems cheap. If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. We’ll pre-fund your prototypes.

Oil 252
article thumbnail

Why Are Modern Vehicles So Much Bigger?

The Truth About Cars

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. This basically spelled the end of traditional economy cars on the market.

article thumbnail

ECE / Featured / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

It is magnificient that ECE has created a profitable business, but the world really needs affordable cars. And they will probably come from China, if we do not start creating a really dutch alternative, cheap, simple, ultra lightweight and modularized. And that may well be the only Dutch contribution to the EV economy.

Hybrid 28
article thumbnail

Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. " BYD can afford to hire lots of them because their salaries are only about $600 to $700 a month; they also get subsidized housing in company-owned apartment complexes and low-cost meals in BYD canteens.

BYD 62
article thumbnail

Tariffs on China aren’t the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is

Baua Electric

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. The largest of these new entrants is the second most populous country in the world, the world’s largest exporter and its second-largest economy: China.

China 52