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The future of electric cars | Tesla Model S |
All In | August 02, 2013
America may finally have seen the
reality of the mass-produced, affordable electric car. Chris Hayes talks
with Eddi Alterman, editor-in-chief of Car and Driver magazine.
Tesla’s Li-ion battery supplier to increase production
Panasonic has told the Japan Times that it will increase domestic production of lithium-ion automobile batteries in order to meet robust demand in the US.
The giant electronics maker said that it will restart idled production lines at an Osaka factory that produces batteries for Silicon Valley standard-bearer Tesla Motors as early as January, while another Osaka factory, which was shut down in March, will reopen by the end of March 2014.
Panasonic’s operating profit jumped by two-thirds in the first quarter, helped by a shift away from consumer electronics and into products for businesses, including automotive systems and solar panels, Reuters reported. Its small battery business, which includes lithium-ion batteries, posted an operating profit of 4.1 billion yen (around $42 million) in the April-June quarter.
Image: Theron Trowbridge (flickr)
Sources: Japan Times, Reuters, NBC News
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100% Electric Cars Outselling Plug-in Hybrid Electric Cars In US (2013)
Published on July 18th, 2013 |
by Zachary Shahan
This article was first published on EV Obsession:
Green Car Reports recently stumbled across an interesting
fact — 100% electric vehicles (led by the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S)
have actually outsold plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the
first half of 2013 in the US.PHEVs have generally been portrayed as a bridge technology between gasmobiles and 100% electric vehicles. But if 100% electric vehicles are already outselling PHEVs, one might wonder how long that bridge technology will be useful, and how intelligent it was for some companies to invest in and develop high-quality PHEVs like the Chevy Volt and Fisker Karma.
Green Car Reports writes:
From January through June of this year, the combination of 9,839 Nissan Leafs, 882 Mitsubishi i-MiEVs, and approximately 9,400 Tesla Model S cars (plus 1,700-odd compliance cars and others) exceeds the total of 18,335 plug-in hybrids and Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric cars.Tesla has been responsible for a good portion of those 100% EV sales. Surely, the great range of the Model S has been a part of that, as well as the car winning just about every car award imaginable and being regarded by Consumer Reports as the best car its team has ever tested.
Slightly different six-month sales totals from the Electric Drive Transportation Association tell the same story.
EDTA reports 22,712 battery-electric cars (we presume they use different estimates for the monthly sales that Tesla doesn’t report) against the same 18,335 plug-in hybrids and range-extended electrics that we tallied.
However, I think the fact that over 12,000 fully electric vehicles (including almost 10,000 Nissan Leafs) were also sold shows that so-called “range anxiety” is not a concern for many people. I’ve written many times that range anxiety is overhyped. The average American doesn’t need anything beyond the range of a typical electric car over 97% of the time, literally. Combine that with the fact that EV owners don’t have to go to gas stations — can simply plug in when they get home — and it’s clear that owning an EV isn’t less convenient but actually more convenient than owning a gasmobile!
With the price of the Nissan Leaf now below $30,000 before tax credits and potentially below $20,000 after tax credits (thanks to production moving to the US earlier this year), it can save many drivers money almost from Day 1 (but that sort of depends on what you’d buy otherwise and how much you drive). With the added benefit that it is much greener — helping to protect our plant, ourselves, and our children from global warming and air and water pollution — and reduces our country’s addiction to oil from unfriendly foreign countries, it’s a wonder why most people looking for a car in this class aren’t buying Nissan Leafs. But it’s good to see that people are certainly beginning to catch on. As for the higher class in which the Model S competes, the car is even outselling competing gasmobiles from Mercedes, BMW, and Audi… which isn’t really surprising at all, given that it is considered by many experts to be the best “mass-production” car in the world. It has so many benefits that we’d need to write another long article to expound on all those.
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