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Retail sales rise 27% to 2.20 million vehicles in April 2024 | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The key growth drivers for sales last month are the favourable market sentiment driven by stable fuel prices, positive monsoon outlook by the IMD, festive demand and the marriage season. A fair number of new product launches across the two-wheeler and passenger vehicle segments also helped rev up overall industry demand.

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Retail sales rise 27% to 2.12 million vehicles in April 2024 | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The key growth drivers for sales last month are the favourable market sentiment driven by stable fuel prices, positive monsoon outlook by the IMD, festive demand and the marriage season. A fair number of new product launches across the two-wheeler and passenger vehicle segments also helped rev up overall industry demand.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

Cars That Think

Their demos and PR campaigns have continued to whet the public’s appetite for hoverbikes, but there are some solid reasons why the nascent hoverbike industry has yet to get airborne. Assessing Hoverbikes’ Risks Safety concerns are just as big a hurdle to making hoverbikes available for sale. It’s one in one billion flight hours.”

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Lotus Engineering and Harmon International, two heavyweights in their respective industries, have teamed up to create a new technology known as Electronic Sound Synthesis (ESS). Basically, the external ESS is a system that produces artificial vehicle noise. New York 2009: The Scion iQ goes Big Wheels!

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our friend Doug, of Tesla Motors Club fame, was at the event and went for a ride in the diminutive one, armed with a video camera to record the ride, the results of which we are happy to share with you after the break. I wish the thing was for sale as-is. 15 days ago AutoblogGreen for 03.31.09

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts. Like shopping malls for example, or very nearly any manufacturer or industrial consumer. govt/industry defined standards my be required.?? The main benefit associated with the swapping model is speed.