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2020 Electric Vehicle Industry Report Card and trends for the new year

Plug In India

The electric motorcycle scene has disappointed. For example, there is no news from Tork motorcycles. It's now up-to the auto industry to launch more EV's. Lethargic Electric Motorcycle Space Revolt Electric Motorcycles was launched in 2019 and the team did very well to expand into 6 cities by the end of 2020.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

If you just set aside the fantasy goal of an electric car with the same or better performance than an ICE powered car then we could build utilitarian short range EVs now, and could have been doing this coninually since 1900 with lead-acid batteries. Want to do better in a short distance, then get a bicycle.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

80 miles was the range of the EV1 with Lead Acid batteries, that GM tried to use because they wanted the project to fail. It had two seats, it used lead-acid batteries (because of cost and reliability, not because of your stupid pet conspiracy theory) until the very end, and had an impractically short range.

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