Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:40:11 +0000
The head of Subaru says the only electric cars Americans want to buy are made by Tesla. But his company will only sell electric cars by 2035. By then, it will be too late.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:42:27 +0000
The US auto industry took a bit of a whack in 2019. Excluding Tesla, auto sales were down by 177,839 units in 2019 compared to 2018. That said, only 13 auto brands saw their sales drop, while 18 saw their sales rise
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 06:37:39 +0000
Tracking monthly US auto sales by company or brand is one of the oddest-feeling things I’ve done in my decade or so covering cleantech. Perhaps that’s because the focus is on tracking non-clean tech. The fact is, though, it shocks me every month to see how many people still buy gasoline cars. Gasoline cars are far worse than electric cars currently on the market for the same cost (or even less). Nonetheless, there are so many people buying clunky, noisy, slow, high-maintenance, low-tech, high-depreciation gasoline vehicles every single day. Objectively, it doesn’t make sense
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:10:57 +0000
Tracking monthly US auto sales has been a fascinating endeavor this past year. Unfortunately, we don’t get data from some brands — Tesla, all Ford Motor Company brands, GM brands, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles brands, Jaguar Land Rover no longer report monthly sales. However, there are 17 brands that do report monthly US sales, so let’s have a look at them
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:00:55 +0000
(tl;dr: Donald Trump and a number of automakers are against higher voluntary emissions standards, and are pushing for policy that is not only bad for the environment, but completely betrays even conservative values. Our petition against this can be found here.)
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 23:33:47 +0000
Overall, non-Tesla US passenger vehicle sales were up by 14,910 units in the 3rd quarter of 2019 compared to the 3rd quarter of 2018, and 14 brands saw their sales increase while 13 saw their sales decrease