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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

Green Car Congress

Specifically, the firm estimates US auto sales will reach just 12.7 AlixPartners also estimates that on-going unemployment and underemployment could cost the auto industry up to 1.5 million units in 2011 and only 13.6 million in 2012. million units in lost vehicle sales this year. Preventing that erosion will be key.

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Was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe 2021’s 3rd Highest-Selling EV in the US?

EV Adoption

I’m estimating 28,000 as an executive with a leading auto analyst firm confirmed to me privately that their registration estimates for 2021 put the RAV4 Prime and Wrangler 4xe as a toss up. Auto Industry Analyst. credit off the the cap cost makes it a real cheap lease on 53k Jeep. Flip a coin. Leased mine.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. And the auto industry had just canceled the battery EV. Utilities reconsidered batteries, not as stationary units but in EVs.

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Wildcat ramps up its focus on EV Supercell breakthroughs

Charged EVs

Mark Gresser: Supercell is our internal name for a battery that the EV industry would love. Mark Gresser: We feel that the industry has stopped or largely ignored the continued push for a better cathode, and while we and many others are working on NMC cathodes for the EV market, there seems to be a gap beyond that.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

Even if interest in purchasing an EV is increasing, close to 70 percent of Americans are still leaning towards buying an ICE vehicles as their next purchase. In the UK, only 14 percent of drivers plan to purchase an EV as their next car. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.

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Arnold Flexing for Flex-Fuels; Fouls Air & Guzzles More Gasoline

Plugs and Cars

The state policy of purchasing flex-fuel cars has actually increased petroleum consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and smog in California. It's cheap to make a car flex-fuel. So as long as it seems a green option, it's a win-win for the little green giant of the Republican party and the sclerotic giant of the auto industry.

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo. The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor.

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