The Germany luxury auto manufacturer BMW has achieved its goal of selling at least 100,000 plug-in electric vehicles in 2017, the company revealed in an email sent to CleanTechnica.
I’ve been an advocate for EVs since restoring a 1994 USElecticar Chevy S-10 in 2009. I’ll admit my time horizon for wide adoption of EVs at that time was decades out. Little did I realize that two players would appear Nissan with the Leaf in 2011 and Tesla with the Model S in 2012. Hindsight provides the opportunity to see this as a one-two punch to the traditional auto business. Nissan targets the average car buyer in a traditional manufacturer/dealer environment. Tesla takes aim at the high-end luxury segment in a nontraditional manufacturer direct to consumer format.
In Shanghai, on December 11th, 2017, WM Motor Technology Co. held a ceremony to reveal the first car under the new Weltmeister brand, the EX5. The new brand plans to start taking orders in April and hopes to start deliveries of its new sports utility vehicle in the second half of 2018.
On the 1st of December 2017, Changan Automobile signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with FAW Group and Dongfeng Motor Corporation. The signing happened in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Changan Automobile, FAW Group, and Dongfeng Motor Corporation are all state-owned enterprises.
Over at CleanTechnica, we’re always excited to see something new, something smart, and something designed clean from the ground up. Enter center stage, the Chanje electric van. The Chanje electric van is a serious fleet industry game changer in more ways than seems obvious.
Scientists deal a killer blow to gasmobiles with new energy storage research showing how to squeeze double the capacity into EV batteries.
The city-state of Singapore just launched its first mass-scale electric carsharing program — a service intended to comprise a fleet of around 1,000 cars and 2,000 charging points by 2020.
Toyota has revealed that it will be marketing and selling over 10 all-electric vehicle models around the world by the early 2020s and investing around or over ¥1.5 trillion ($13 billion) into the development of battery technology through 2030 as well.
Elon Musk has some unkind things to say about the state of public transportation today. His remarks did not sit well with transportation engineers and urban planners.
While some auto manufacturers are apparently banking on the idea that electric vehicle battery prices will continue their recent price-decrease trend for quite some time to come, executives at Hyundai are expecting battery prices to level off around 2020 owing to component supply constraints, reportedly.
