Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:10:34 +0000
The Dutch plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is back at year-end-rush mode, doubling sales in November to 7,205 registrations. That translates into a PEV share of 18% in November, and pulls the 2019 PEV share to a record 11%
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:14:30 +0000
The South Korean electric vehicle market doesn’t get the most attention, but it is bubbling up, with 2% of passenger vehicle sales in the country now EV sales. Similar to the USA, though, the market is dominated by just a few models
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:35:31 +0000
General Motors and LG Chem are establishing a new joint venture to build battery cells at scale in the US. The new JV puts both companies on equal footing and will kick off with the construction of a new 30 GWh battery cell plant in northeastern Ohio that will create more than 1,100 new jobs
Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:55:23 +0000
Back in 2015, when we shopped EVs and then leased a Nissan Leaf, we were the primary EV educators up to the point of sale, not the salespeople. Even during the test drive, we had more knowledge. Our grasp on the function and reality of electric cars seemed to overwhelm the salesperson. We passionately emphasized why we wanted an electric car. Our sales person remained less than enthusiastic
Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:10:35 +0000
In this article, I’ll talk about how Tesla’s announcement of its CyberTruck will hurt sales of other pickup trucks, even before the truck ships its first unit. Make sure you also read Frugal Moogal’s article about the broad effects of the industry’s transition to electric vehicles and compares this transition to how other industries dealt with (or didn’t) their own transitions. Frugal also wrote an article that is more specific, dealing with the Mustang’s effect on Ford
Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:10:35 +0000
In this article, I’ll talk about how Tesla’s announcement of its CyberTruck will hurt sales of other pickup trucks, even before the truck ships its first unit. Make sure you also read Frugal Moogal’s article about the broad effects of the industry’s transition to electric vehicles and compares this transition to how other industries dealt with (or didn’t) their own transitions. Frugal also wrote an article that is more specific, dealing with the Mustang’s effect on Ford
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:10:09 +0000
For better or worse, consumers (also known as “people”) typically organize products in their heads using simple descriptors or tags. Pre-Tesla, electric cars were not that well known. Among those who knew what an electric car was, the prevailing summary of them was that they were slow like golf carts, geeky, and only for a certain (weird) kind of person. Elon Musk and other early birds at Tesla blew those stereotypes out of the water
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:01:08 +0000
Dear Automakers, You should support the environment. In fact, without it, we would not be able to buy your cars. I mean, we would be dead if we didn’t have clean air to breathe. Same problem if a climate disaster kills us, or ruins our livelihood
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:05:22 +0000
GM has cancelled its appearance at CES 2020, citing the recent strike as the reason. It was scheduled to reveal one or more prototype vehicles. Could one of them be an electric pickup truck?
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:26:56 +0000
There’s been a lot of electric vehicle news lately. Unfortunately, some of it doesn’t make the cut here for its own individual coverage. Hyundai and Kia have rolled out some minor electric vehicle updates that we just couldn’t get to, for example. I’ll quickly run down 3 news items