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When Do Fossil Fuel Car Sales Collapse?

CleanTechnica EVs

Maarten Vinkhuyzen was ahead of the curve (as usual) and wrote the article “The Osborne Effect On The Auto Industry” in February 2019. This is one of those topics that seems to come up more and more frequently.

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Is Toyota Circling The Drain? Will It Take Japan With It?

CleanTechnica EVs

Certification chatGTP was not used in the writing of this article.) Recent conservations with my mate, retired economics professor Dr Paul Wildman, have led to this article. The entire Japanese auto industry, and especially Toyota, appears to be in denial about the global ascendency of electric drivetrains.

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Is the Ford Mustang Mach-E the Best Thing To Happen to the EV Industry?

Clean Fleet Report

Is the Ford Mustang Mach-E the Best Thing To Happen to the EV Industry? Opinion: The Perception of EVs Was Changed by the Mach-E This article may contain affiliate links. Making EVs cool The Ford Mustang Mach-E is an all-electric version of one of the world’s most iconic motor vehicles.

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How Tesla’s Model 3 Is Melting ICE Markets

EV Obssesion

Tesla’s Model 3 triggered the Osborne effect in the auto industry and is causing the internal combustion engine (ICE) market to melt, The Driven shared and explained just how this happened. In the article, the author takes us back to 2017 where the global new car sales began their downturn, and that increased in 2020 […].

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Germans are coming for Tesla, German paper says, so now it's 'interesting'

Green Car Reports

At times, those of us who cover the auto industry fall prey to stereotypes of the German auto industry. It can seem to observers that the collective belief of BMW, Daimler, and VW Group is that nothing happens in the industry until it's been done by one of their three companies—preferably all three.

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Are There Too Many Battery Packs Being Made for Electric Cars?

All Cars Electric

According to a report from gigaom earlier this week, the electric auto industry will soon be producing battery packs at a rate far greater than the number of electric cars being built.

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The Gas Car Death Spiral

CleanTechnica EVs

Editor’s note: A little more than a month ago, I wrote an article about 500 million gallons of gasoline being displaced by electric vehicles in 2020. In response, friend and longtime reader Remco van der Horst sent along an email that teased out some superb points about what that means more broadly for the auto […].

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