Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

At the same time, the survey results also suggest enthusiasm for autonomous robot-taxis. Though 58% of Chinese said they were confident in higher-level AVs’ ability to navigate safely from one place to another, responses in the other five countries ranged from 36% down to just 18%. male and 49.5%

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

Yet in the United States and China, automakers’ caution, weak price. Yet in the United States and China, automakers’ caution, weak price incentives, and concerns over the electrical grid are slowing the electric car’s introduction. China overtook the US last year as the largest auto market in the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

For example, President Obama has issued the United States the challenge of having one million plug-in hybrids on the road by the end of 2015—a goal which many keynote speakers supported but also identified significant barriers to achieving. The PRT as an automated taxi that is 4m long by 1.4m Thornes, B. Washington, D.C.:

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The potential is enormous because the current grid has sufficient energy capacity to supply every vehicle in the United States if every one of them was a PHEV. In the past the auto industry has responded to incentives and guidelines set by government agencies and reengineered their product to meet this requirement.

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