Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The current plunge in oil prices will likely negatively affect plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales in the short term; automakers such as BMW are already warning of lower sales of plug-in vehicles given the market context. Anticipated price of oil and forecast plug-in sales. Lux on the price of oil.

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Plug-in Oil Cheap Plug 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

” Their analysis is in the context of the “ surprising [oil] demand strength of 2010 “; 2010 saw absolute incremental demand at around 2.2mb/d of growth—the second highest in 30 years, despite oil prices in the $90/bbl region. gallon gasoline. Click to enlarge.

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Transportation Gasoline Lithium Ion Gasoline-Electric 250

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A series of presentations at the SAE 2009 Hybrid Vehicle Technology Symposium held in San Diego (11-12 February) sketched a mixed outlook for mainstream consumer—i.e., not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes.

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PHEV Fuel Economy San Diego Climate Change 150

Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

What happens to an electric car deferred? Ask Chris Paine, director of the documentary film Who Killed the Electric Car? 2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. Q: I hear you didn’t even like cars — yet now you’re seen as a champion for the electric car.

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EV1 Los Angeles Hydrogen GM 100

Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

Once several thousand people get the opportunity to buy the likes of Nissan’s well made EV, the demand from the early adopters’ friends and family will expand exponentially. CEO Carlos Ghosn is spending big money to make electric vehicles in high volumes — and soon. Of this I am certain. manufacturing complex.

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Nissan Japan United States Gasoline-Electric 124

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle.

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Oil prices peaked once again at over $75 a barrel. The shutdown by BP of its Prudhoe Bay drilling operation and the Alaska pipeline due to years of neglect threatened to reduce our domestic supply of gasoline. Call Nissan at (800) NISSAN-1 or (800-647-7261) and tell them to let Pasadena buy their electric HyperMinis.

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Electric Cars San Francisco Tesla Cars 100