Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings available today, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte. Click to enlarge.

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EV Life

AUGUST 28, 2020

To help you save days or weeks of research, here is our guide to using a tool like EV Life to simplify your journey to buy an electric car. For example, I grew up in a “Toyota family” and Toyota only has one electric vehicle available today: The Prius Prime. Negotiate Your Best Price. Level 2 Chargers. Public charging.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Nissan began accepting reservations for its eagerly anticipated Nissan Leaf today. After a federal tax credit and state rebate, the price of these cars will come out at around a cool 20k. The only all-electric “highway-capable&# vehicle available today is the $109,000 Tesla Roadster. AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File).

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In looking at the current crop of new EVs on the market today, it ranks in the top BEVs along with the Ford Mustang Mach-E, VW ID4 and the Tesla Model Y. This BEV can stand toe-to-toe with just about any mid-priced 5-door conventional ICE crossover on the market today. Light Short Range) – ~3.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The pure electric vehicles, for reserve, must carry heavy and expensive batteries—which add expense as well as weight—and must have access to high-powered recharging stations [ 1 ]. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. Car buyers were less enthusiastic.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Most charge points available today take much longer to re-energize batteries than it does to fill a gas-powered cars tank. Perhaps more importantly, quickly "pouring" electricity into many of the batteries available today may stress the very expensive component and shorten their useful lifetime.

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