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From Tesla Killers To Unwitting Tesla Ads: The Uphill Battle Of Premium Legacy Brands Has Just Begun

January 28, 2020 admin Audi, BMW, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, porsche, tesla

Credit to Author: Carlo Ombello| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:00:03 +0000

It was a favorite term of skeptics and detractors for years: the “Tesla killer.” The theory was that, as soon as premium carmakers started producing their own fully electric models, that would be the end for the fragile Californian startup. After all, how could Musk’s company even dream of competing with the century-old, giant automakers’ well-oiled machines

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Tesla Model 3 Shatters Records In Hot European Market — EV Sales Report

January 28, 2020 admin Audi, audi e-tron, BMW, bmw 225xe active tourer, bmw 330e, bmw 530e, bmw i3, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Europe, europe ev sales, ev sales, Hyundai, hyundai ioniq electric, hyundai kona ev, jaguar, jaguar i-pace mercedes e300e/de smart fortwo ev, Kia, kia niro ev, kia niro phev, market research, mini countryman phev, Mitsubishi, mitsubishi outlander phev, Nissan, nissan leaf, renault, renault zoe, research, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen e-golf, volvo, volvo xc60 t8

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:57:17 +0000

The European plug-in electric vehicle market registered a record 77,000 vehicles in December (+88%!), with the Dutch market most helping to pull the market up. Fully electric vehicles (+91% year over year) grew a bit faster than plug-in hybrids (+81%), with the powertrain breakdown becoming even more friendly to fully electric vehicles (68% to 32% in December, versus 64% to 36% in 2019)

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Trash Truck Is Next Electric Mercedes

January 27, 2020 admin clean transport, daimler, Electric vehicles, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, mercedes-benz eactros, mercedes-benz eeconic

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:57:25 +0000

We’ve written about electric garbage trucks since 2012. They make a lot of sense for a handful of reasons: clearly defined routes and range needs, low speed (good for range) but benefit from a lot of torque (electric specialty), a lot of space on the bottom in which to pack batteries, regenerative braking will help a lot. It’s nice to see that Daimler is joining our enthusiasm for this topic, and going approximately 1 million steps further than us by bringing an electric trash truck to market

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Mercedes EQC 2020 Production Target — 50,000, Not 30,000, According To Mercedes

January 27, 2020 admin batteries, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, mercedes, mercedes eqc, mercedes-benz eqc

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:23:59 +0000

There was a bit of hoopla last week about Mercedes-Benz cutting the production target of the fully electric Mercedes-Benz EQC from ~60,000 to 30,000 due to battery production constraints

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Mercedes & Geely Launch JV For smart Cars

January 26, 2020 admin autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles, cars, China, clean transport, daimler, electric car, electric cars, Electric vehicles, geely, GERMANY, mercedes, Mercedes Benz

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:13:12 +0000

Chinese carmaker Geely has added another brand to its ever-growing portfolio. The company, which currently owns Volvo, Lotus Cars, and Lynk & Co., recently launched a joint venture with Mercedes-Benz’ parent company, Daimler, to co-develop and produce the next generation of autonomous electric city “smart” cars based on the smart Vision EQ concept shown here

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Poor Man’s Autopilot: Where Is The Outrage?

January 24, 2020 admin adaptive cruise control, Audi, audi a6, autonomous vehicles, BMW, bmw i3, cars, clean transport, consumer technology, cruise control, daimler, ed markey, electric cars, Electric vehicles, lane assist, life hacks, mercedes, mercedes s-class, Nissan, nissan propilot, nissan propilot assist, policy & politics, tesla, tesla autopilot, Volkswagen, volkswagen tiguan

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:36:08 +0000

In a video titled “Poor Man’s Autopilot,” the owner of an i3 with the ability to do self-parking and adaptive cruise control explains how to mimic Tesla’s Autopilot. And there are many more than this

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Tesla vs. BMW, Jaguar, Porsche — Worldwide Sales

January 23, 2020 admin Audi, BMW, bmw ev sales, bmw group, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, hybrid electric cars, jaguar, jaguar land rover, market research, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, mini, phev, porsche, research, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model y, tesla sales

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 02:17:28 +0000

Comparing Tesla vehicle sales to pickup truck and compact budget car sales is too much of an apples-to-oranges comparison. But comparing Tesla sales to the sales of the world’s top luxury auto brands is getting interesting

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Plug-In Vehicles = 5.5% of Switzerland’s Auto Sales

January 19, 2020 admin Audi, audi e-tron, BMW, bmw 225xe, bmw i3, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, consumer technology, daimler, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev sales, ford, ford explorer phev, hybrid electric cars, Hyundai, hyundai ioniq ev, hyundai kona ev, jaguar, jaguar i-pace, market research, mini, mini countryman phev, Mitsubishi, mitsubishi outlander phev, Nissan, nissan leaf, phev, porsche, porsche cayenne phev, renault, renault zoe, research, smart fortwo ev, Switzerland, switzerland ev sales, tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, tesla sales, Volkswagen, volkswagen e-golf, volvo, volvo s/v60 phev, volvo xc60 phev, volvo xc90 phev

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:12:01 +0000

Far and away, the Swiss plug-in vehicle (PEV) leader was the Model 3, which had 29% of PEV market share. That means it had ~1.6% of the overall auto market in Switzerland all by itself, and it put the Model 3 at #4 in the overall auto market in the country, only trailing the Skoda Octavia, Volkswagen Tiguan, and Volkswagen Golf

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From Tesla Killers To Unwitting Tesla Ads: The Uphill Battle Of Premium Legacy Brands Has Just Begun

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Trash Truck Is Next Electric Mercedes

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Mercedes & Geely Launch JV For smart Cars

Poor Man’s Autopilot: Where Is The Outrage?

Tesla vs. BMW, Jaguar, Porsche — Worldwide Sales

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Plug-In Vehicles = 5.7% of Portugal’s Auto Sales

Plug-In Vehicles = 5.5% of Switzerland’s Auto Sales