Monday, September 08, 2014
Electric vehicle sales are running out of gas - LA Times
We have to remember that electric cars and their batteries are relatively expensive.
We also have to remember that the electricity used for charging still comes to us the old fashioned fossil fuel way...
This is part of an article by Charles Fleming in the L.A. Times:
"'The whole automobile market has grown,' Caldwell said. 'We’re not seeing electric vehicles as part of that growth.' The numbers are surprising, Caldwell said, to automobile forecasters. Five years ago, analysts thought that electric vehicle sales would continue to expand as more manufacturers put more electric vehicles on the road and as the vehicles' cost came down. That hasn't happened. Electric vehicle sales have slowed while prices have come down and dealers have been offering increasingly better deals on financing and incentives."
