Archive for the ‘Plug-Ins: BEV & PHEV Cars’ Category
Who Will Kill the Electric Car This Time?
January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments »Morgan Stanley gave a very positive perspective on Electric Vehicles (EVs) in a March 31, 2011 article entitled Morgan Stanley Issues Huge, Bullish Report On Tesla, Calling It “America’s Fourth Automaker”. [1] Later, in a December 8, 2011 article entitled Morgan Stanley Delivers Some Heartbreaking News For Elon Musk And Tesla, they changed their position [...]
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One Year On – Poor Sales of the Volt and Leaf
December 15th, 2011 | No Comments »The Plug-In Volt and Leaf cars have been shipping for twelve months. At the end of November 2011, after one full year of shipments, the combined total sales was 15,207 units. Figure 1 shows the shipments of Priuses, All Hybrids (including Prius), All Cars Sold, Volt Sales and Leaf Sales obtained from Hybridcars.com. Volt and [...]
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The “Bad Karma” Car
December 12th, 2011 | No Comments »In an October 20, 2011 Washington Post article, authors Carol Leonnig and Joe Stephens noted that Fisker Automotive had missed its manufacturing production goals for the Karma Pluggable Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV), a luxury car with a list price near $100,000. [1] The company had earlier estimated it would produce 11,000 Karmas in 2011. Fisker [...]
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