Chris Paine, director of the movie Who Killed The Electric Car, shared some thoughts on the EV revolution with Forbes recently. Many of our readers will agree with his views.
Elon Musk is consistently accused of being late. Sure, Tesla typically takes longer to launch its electric cars than Musk’s overzealous timelines. But no one can argue with his sense of urgency to expedite EVs to market. On the other hand, how are legacy automakers faring in their race to go electric?
The US is heading for a down year in auto sales. The only bright spot is Tesla. So why is everyone bashing the one company that is succeeding at building US-made cars with American workers?
Klaus Zellmer, CEO of Porsche Cars North America, says the EV revolution is real and is moving fast. Recent sales figures seem to support his claim.
The 2019 IEA electric car report predicts there will be 250 million EVs on the road worldwide by 2025 under the best case scenario, 130 million with less optimistic assumptions. Either is good news, but the world really needs to strive for the best case scenario.
Jeep says it is prepared to invest $4.5 billion in new or upgraded manufacturing facilities in Michigan. Part of those plans include developing plug-in hybrid versions of iconic Jeep models. Will Jeep customers be interested in electrified motoring?
The China EV sales count for January 2019 is in. China recorded 91,175 passenger electric vehicle sales in the month, and around 96,000 when adding on commercial vehicles sales. Meanwhile, with total vehicle sales dropping in China almost 16% year over year this January, gasmobiles continue their inevitable fall whilst EVs inexorably rise.
The EV revolution continues to gather momentum as Infiniti says all its cars will be plug-in hybrids or battery electrics, Porsche and Audi say they are raising their EV production goals, and Ducati says it will have an electric motorcycle soon.
CleanTechnica reader Jessica Feinleib spent time in Costa Rica and reports that country stands on the edge of an electric car revolution. Read more about her findings in this exclusive report.
In 4 days, on Wednesday, October 17, I will be presenting and moderating panels about the EV revolution during AVERE’s AEC2018 conference. In the opening plenary, I will open up the conference with four EV leaders with diverse expertise and surely useful insight to share. Here’s the opening lineup:
