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CapGemini: 87% of global consumers prefer personal vehicle to ensure safe travel, up from 57% in April 2020

Green Car Congress

This reflects a continuous shift in consumer preference towards personal mobility, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, as car ownership today is seen as a safeguard against the risk and spread of infection. Meanwhile, 78% of consumers will opt for using their personal vehicles over taking public transport.

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Personal: One in a Million

Clean Fleet Report

California’s plug-in vehicle sales tally is impressive: 663,014 battery electrics (62.9%). Sales just topped a quarter-million with Tesla’s four models accounting for more than half of the overall sales. The cars Californians choose set the tone for EV sales for 2021. Still turning in max EV miles. Nissan Leaf EV – 4,192.

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If Toyota Lavish Highlander cannibalizes gross sales of smaller namesake, it’s a part of the plan

Baua Electric

WAIMEA, Hawaii — Toyota North American emblem head Dave Christ is absolutely ready if the gross sales of his flow top-selling three-row crossover, the Highlander, abate upcoming generation. “I’m a great example. .”

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. Soon, though, the world began embracing little computers by the millions, with IBM dominating those sales. With that, the preeminent U.S. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Tesla stock dips as Elon Musk agrees to sell 10% of his personal TSLA shares

Teslarati

million TSLA shares, a 10% sale of his stake in Tesla would be valued at about $21 billion. . Musk’s poll was triggered in part by recent conversations about billionaires’ unrealized gains being used as a means to avoid taxes. Based on Musk’s current holdings of about 170.5

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Getting the personal story `

Electric Auto Association

Matching owners with shoppers has gone so far as in-person meet-ups, especially when local dealerships do not have the particular vehicle in stock. “If Far-flung and growing… Before the pandemic, the NBEAA met in person at Thunderstruck Motors , an EV parts and conversion shop in Santa Rosa with a decades-long association with the chapter.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part IV)

The Truth About Cars

The dash and part of the door panels’ upper edges were covered in leather, which was certainly more luxurious than the painted metal of the Series 62. & With 532 sales, the Eldorado didn’t even manage a third of the sales of the Roadmaster Skylark. And that figure represented just half a percent of Cadillac’s sales in 1953.

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