Back in August 2014, I polled CleanTechnica readers on when an electric car would break into the top 20 of US car sales. The specific question was, “When will a plug-in car break into the top 20 of monthly US car sales?”
The most popular response (27%) was 2017.
2017 is shaping up to be the year that the affordable EV goes big, with the much anticipated Chevy Bolt and the updated Renault Zoe (with its breakthrough 400 km range) rolling out en masse, as well as the competitive and perhaps widely available Hyundai IONIQ, Toyota Prius Prime, and Chrysler Pacific Hybrid (PHEV). And that’s not even mentioning what is due in the second half of 2017 (hint: Tesla Model 3).
CleanTechnica reader “No way” had a great suggestion last week — poll the community on 2017 Tesla production and delivery predictions. We actually did this last year, but I forgot to check on the numbers until Karl Graves emailed them over. A few of us were quite close to nailing the 2016 total. However, I think we didn’t carefully consider production versus delivery figures, so we are clearly separating those this year.
In case you missed the initial announcement, be sure to get in your vote for the 2017 CleanTechnica Car of the Year!
Consumer Reports finds itself between the proverbial rock of its own creation — the low reliability rating of Tesla vehicles — and the cold, hard reality that is the uber positive opinions of thousands of Tesla owners. The 2016 Consumer Reports Owner Satisfaction Survey found that Tesla owners were amongst the most satisfied and that 91% would purchase another Tesla. That puts Tesla #1 in owner satisfaction … by a landslide. It beat #2 Porsche (84%) by a whopping 7 percentage points and #3 Audi (77%) by 14 percentage points.
We’ve now hit the 1 million mark of electric vehicles on the roads across the globe. Those EV teenage years of “messing around” are officially behind us. Yet, despite the market maturing, EV-related jobs growing, and governments adopting more EVs and stimulating more sales, consumers’ concerns about electric driving are still a tough nut to crack.
CleanTechnica was started to share the possibilities of clean technology with the people of the world — and more than that, to catalyze change in people’s lives through individual and corporate action. Digging into individual emissions, a large chunk of that typically comes from transportation. While walking, biking, and public transit work for many people, some of us still rely on personal automobiles to get around. How to make them clean?
The Tesla Model S has been named as the “Best Model” in a newly released “Customer Love Index,” which comes from the market research firm Strategic Vision.
CleanTechnica has written a series of articles about the deceptive wording on Florida’s Amendment 1, which is meant to slow the Sunshine State’s rooftop solar growth and even penalize it. A new press release from the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) suggests that the big utilities are playing hardball now to keep up the deception.
A new survey conducted by the UK Government has found that while support for renewable energy has remained high among the country’s public, support for nuclear and shale gas has recently plummeted.
