Uncertainty and Hope Donald Trump and Elon Musk promise a cloudy picture for the future of EVs in the U.S. market. The combination of open hostility to EVs and “woke climate” concerns mixed with obviously transactional financial reasoning (Musk’s original claim to wealth!) leaves us scratching our heads about the near-term direction of the autoContinue reading “Whither the American EV Market in 2025?”
Tag Archives: EVs
Cars: Spiritual Totems or Historical Markers?
All the cars I ever owned and all the cars I remember my parents owning — and there were many (as a GM salaried employee, my dad bought a new car every year) — what does it all mean?
Cars: Looking into the Future
Converting the world to EVs may take too long — and the U.S. auto industry is probably not up to the task, anyway — how about changing the way we live?
Beating Tesla
The entire world auto industry is expecting to go electric over the next several years — how will the market shake out?
News Flash: Hyundai/Kia now #2 EV seller
Check out last Warp & Woof post (“Marketing All Those EVs”): global auto industry experiencing a shakeup, definite implications for EV future — not only are the Koreans number 3 in world for total auto production, but behind only Tesla in EV sales!
Marketing All Those EVs: Is the Auto Industry Up to the Challenge?
The future is electric — how will demand for EVs be satisfied in the near term? The mid-term?
General Motors, Decline and Fall, 1980-2009
published July 9, 2020 in Warp & Woof General Motors, Decline and Fall, 1980 – 2009 William Sundwick Founded in Flint, Michigan in 1908, the corporation that ushered in the automobile age in America and came to dominate the nation’s industrial economy by the 1970s, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy just after celebrating itsContinue reading “General Motors, Decline and Fall, 1980-2009”
Link from Think Progress
New data from Bloomberg — sales of ICE vehicles has already peaked in world, will represent 40% of U.S. new car sales by 2025 (50% in Europe and China), reason: cheaper batteries! (reference: “Drive Better Electrically” March 21, 2019)
Link from Consumer Reports
Update from CR on new EVs (BEVs) for sale next year — but, sadly, not nationwide — YET!
Drive Better Electrically
Published March 21, 2019 in Warp & Woof Drive Better Electrically EVs, Past, Present, Future William Sundwick Electricity as a means of propulsion for self-contained road vehicles is as old, or older, than the internal combustion engine (ICE). But EV market share declined to zero for a large chunk of motor vehicle history. There wereContinue reading “Drive Better Electrically”
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