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Governor George Pataki Calls for 40% Penetration of Electric Drive Vehicles in US by End of Decade

Green Car Congress

Gasoline is too cheap. Incentivize the market on all three of these spaces and the market will change consumer behavior. The consumer is ready to go, but they have to have the product and the ability to use the product. The challenge is demand creation. If you build it, they aren’t coming. —Mary Ann Wright.

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NADA forecasts light-duty vehicle sales of 16.94M in US in 2015; 56% trucks and SUVs

Green Car Congress

Low gasoline prices and pent-up consumer demand will combine to drive new car and light truck sales to an estimated 16.94 million in 2015, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. Lower gasoline prices accelerate that shift. In addition, hybrid sales are expected to be slower as long as oil remains cheap.

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

The Truth About Cars

For 2023, CR reported that EVs had 79 percent more problems than automobiles that use internal combustion. However, standard hybrids actually outperformed every other group with 26 percent fewer problems than vehicles wholly reliant on gasoline. Plug-in hybrids were even worse with 146 percent more issues.

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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

Plugs and Cars

The week I was in Shanghai, the Electric Vehicle Test Drive Center opened to the public in Shanghai Automobile City, a far suburb still reachable by subway. We really don’t need more cheap gas cars. Cars will undoubtedly be the last piece of the electric transportation matrix in China. But it is an anomaly.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. Hybrid automobiles work with two engines. This year, however, as hybrids have gained in popularity amid high gasoline prices, Dr. Frank, now 72 years old, is getting some traction: A U.S.

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Zero-Carbon Drive to Sacto Anti-Carbon Rally and Back

Plugs and Cars

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) held a rally in Sacramento Thursday outside the lobbying offices of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers to protest their continuing lawsuit against California's greenhouse gas legislation. And I was there representing Plug In America. Choice is what we want.

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Ford expects inner combustion engine quantity, earnings to develop thru 2025

Baua Electric

expects gross sales and benefit margins from its inner combustion engine automobiles to develop for no less than the then two years ahead of the industrywide transition to electrical automobiles begins to truncate that trade. Kumar Galhotra, head of Ford Blue, mentioned benefit margins from combustion automobiles will develop from 7.2

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