BMW is considered to be one of the major auto manufacturers that is more bullish about electric vehicles. It has built the BMW i3 and BMW i8 from the ground up, and it has already stated that it plans to have electric versions of all of its models. Recently, BMW Chairman Norbert Reithofer said they were […]
BMW Aims For 100,000 Electric Vehicles Per Year By 2020, Compared To Tesla’s 500,000 & Nissan/Renault’s 1.5 Million was originally published on EV Obsession.
By Rachel DiFranco, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Fremont The City of Fremont has made a number of local headlines this month for reports on the high number of electric vehicle owners living within its boundaries. With a population of 221,986, Fremont holds 14.3 percent of Alameda County’s 1,554,720 residents.1 But with 3,870 electric vehicle rebates
Silicon Valley City Drives Down The Road Toward Sustainability was originally published on: CleanTechnica.
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Editor’s Note: Most of us will probably never even see this vehicle in the wild — the BMW i8 price before any incentives comes in at $135,700. Nonetheless, it’s one of the hottest electric cars on the market and gets plenty of attention… including from us here at CleanTechnica. It’s a nice car. BMW has
2015 BMW i8 PHEV Entering Production, Final Specs Released was originally published on: CleanTechnica.
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BMW i8 specs are out, demand is higher than initial planned production, and the price is still super high. The highly anticipated 2015 BMW i8 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is nearly here — production on the first units of the hybrid vehicle began recently, with the pace expected to soon begin gearing up rapidly in preparation […]
BMW i8 Specs was originally published on EV Obsession.
Editor’s Note: I’ve written about the exponential growth of disruptive technologies, which I am convinced electric cars will be, a number of times. I’ve also written about how electric car sales are doing much better than many give credit. Of course, the head of Renault & Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, initially had very large targets for
Nissan+Renault On Track To Surpass 2020 EV Sales Goal? was originally published on: CleanTechnica.
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Travelers cherish the city of Paris for the charm of its luxurious springtime, but maybe not this year. Since last Wednesday, air pollution in Paris and 22 suburbs has topped the safe limit for PM10 particulates (80 mg/cubic meter). The Paris smog readings hit 180 mg on Friday, more than twice the accepted safe limit. This [&hellip
Paris Smog Can Take Cars Off The Streets was originally posted on: PlanetSave. To read more from Planetsave, join thousands of others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage.
I recently figured out electric vehicle market share for 17 European countries, the US, and Japan for an ABB Conversations article I wrote (full disclosure: I am compensated by ABB for articles written on that site). The results are very interesting, in my opinion, so I figured I’d drop the charts in here as well. […]
EV Market Share Leaders (Top Countries For EV Market Share) was originally published on EV Obsession.
There’s no denying it — the Dutch electric vehicle market is an interesting one. There was a surge in plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) sales at the end of 2013 because of an expiring incentive for PHEVs. Nonetheless, PHEVs continue to dominate Dutch EV sales. In both January and now February the Volvo V60 PHEV […]
The Curious Case of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles In The Netherlands (February Sales Report) was originally published on EV Obsession.
After a month down at #3, the Renault Zoe (205 sales) rebounded to its normal position at #1 in France. Not far behind is the Renault Kangoo ZE (173 sales). The Zoe and Kangoo ZE sat high above all other vehicles in 2013. They look set for such dominat…
Electric car supercountry Norway continued to go strong in February. Trumping the 1216 electric car sales it had in January, it added 1574 in February. Again, the Nissan Leaf topped the charts. Tesla Model S sales rebounded to put it pretty close behin…