[*]Tesla beams down driverless capabilities (as expected over the past 10 months, long term very significant, short term - hype)
[*]Tesla announces most people working on Model 3 (what else would they be doing? next gen roadster :lol: )
[*]More details emerge about Hyundai 150+ mile car (some piccys of Hyundai Prius competitor have been making rounds, not surprising)
[*]Volvo says it is all in on electric cars ( they are Geely (Chinese) after all)
[*] Aston Martin trying to survive the shift to ecars (duh - thats 1/2 the reason why Andy moved to Aston Martin, he thinks if Elon can, he can)
[*] ABB group announces 24/7 operation of electric buses via 4-6 minute fast charging (i don't follow buses)
[*] VW says they are investing heavily in ecars (anything to divert attention away from 10 million
smogmobiles)
[*] Mitsubishi all in on ecars (Actually is bad news, they seem to be slipping in the XR-PHEV)
[*] Tesla announces wait list for Model-S growing. (only Tesla shorts are surprised)
[*] Honda mysteriously installs 120 car chargers at CA headquarters (this is new, could be really big, or it could just be for the next round of lease to crush)
What do you think was the biggest development this past week?
my pick is good signs at Honda, potentially bad signs at Mitsubishi.
TomT said:
And how quickly Nissan may be left in the dust...
what is Nissan's general ICE market share in California, perhaps 10-15%. CARB rules make it the the other 85-90% of manufacturers must sell ZEV, so its natural for Nissan's share to decay to Nissan's general market share in CARB states. Its different in the rest of the world. For instance -there are only 4 companies that sell new vehicles with plugins in my country http://ev-sales.blogspot.com.au/ Mitsubishi,Tesla,BMW & Nissan
no GM, no Toyota, no VW, not even Kia or MB or Fiat (and Mitsubishi/BMW sell come with petrol tanks), its still really just Tesla and Nissan for
willing sale EVs.
What is news (and GM's recent price disclosure of LG pushed it to the fore) is the coalescing that next gen EVs from Nissan, Mitsubishi, Hyundai/Kia, Renault, GM all seem to have very similar capacity in battery pack, as LG will be the 1st or 2nd supplier to most of these. The results will quite a divergence on EPA range even though the battery pack may be very similar (ie 46kWh in a Mercedes B class / Mitsubishi Outlander Sport will have considerably less range than 46kWh in a GM Sonic/Honda Fit)