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The International Council of Transportation has published recently a very interesting analysis of the California electric market. It provided a great overview of the effects of different policies and promotional activities in effect there through 2015, as well as lessons for other locations.This analysis was based around city-level data on electric vehicles for 30 different cities, including adoption rates, public charging infrastructure availability, model availability, promotional efforts, incentives, etc. Electric vehicle adoption rates in many Californian cities are much higher than elsewh...
The 4.1% decline in U.S. new-vehicle sales in August provided more evidence of plateauing of consumer demand. The numbers further underscored the waning interest of buyers for sedans, especially in the midsize category. The U.S. automotive market's six-year recovery following the global financial crisis has been carried mostly by trucks, SUVs and crossovers. In August, for example, Toyota's (TM) RAV4 midsize crossover for the first time outsold the Japanese automaker's best-selling Camry sedan, 33,171 to 32,864. For Nissan (NSANY), the automaker's Rogue crossover in...
The Department for Transport needs a new better strategy to increase the use of of ultra-low emission vehicles and reduce air pollution. In the last report revealed the Department says that a strategy would enable the DFT to meet decarbonisation and air quality targets. The chair of EAC said the uptake of ultra-low emission vehicles such as electric cars is too low to meet the US' climate change targets at the lowest cost to the public, all the air quality targets that should have been met in 2010 will be hit in 2020 at the earliest. It's been almost a year now since it'...
In July 2016, manufacturing output, as reflected in the industrial production index, rose to 103.6 compared to 103.1 in June. Among other factors, improvements in motor vehicles and parts production were reported. While the overall index rose by 0.5%, the manufacturing of durables such as motor vehicles and parts, wood products, and miscellaneous goods rose by more than 1% in July. Motor vehicle and parts manufacturing are some of the key components of the industrial production index. Therefore, a rise in industrial production also indicates robust production growth in the auto indu...
All of us know that electric vehicles are cleaner, greener and more fun to drive. There are about 30 plug-in electric sports cars, SUVs and sedans available from such makes as BMW, Nissan, Chevrolet, Tesla, Ford and many other automakers. They offer a wide range of terrific options and still, their sales are only 1% of total monthly U.S. auto sales. The California Air Resources Board's Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program requires automakers to sell increasing numbers of EVs between now and 2025. Because of the many environmental and economic benefits of electric vehicles, the ZE...
