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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2015, 12:11 am
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Drive Electric VT: It’s Time to Plug In, Vermont!
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> - Spend the equivalent of $1 per gallon of gas
> - Charge at home easily
> - Enjoy access to 60 electric vehicle charging stations in
Vermont
> - Have a comparable car payment (and lower fuel costs)
> - Drive safely—plug-in vehicles have excellent traction for
winter driving
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 11, 2015, 2:43 pm
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[center]e-Golf on my wish list. ;D[/center]
[center]I checked out how the lease works here in Vermont in
regard to the tax credit and sales tax.
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The lease holder, the bank, gets the $7.500 tax credit. The
person that leases the car has to pay sales tax (6%) on the
portion (around 2/3 of vehicle value) when they begin the lease.
If they buy the car at lease termination, they then pay 6% on
the buyback. For someone that pays low income tax, a lease is,
therefore, the only way to get the benefit of the full $7,500
tax credit. When you do a buy back, you are not the first
purchaser of the vehicle. Only the first purchaser is entitled
to the tax credit. Sometimes a dealer will be the "first
purchaser" on a floor model that is used for demonstration and
test drives. You might negotiate a very good deal on one of
those because they are technically "used" cars, even though they
have less than 100 miles on them.
The Attorney General of Vermont has some additional tips for
people considering a lease.
Here's a snippet:
The Language of Leasing
If you’re considering leasing, you need to know the terms used
in a lease transaction. They are very different from the terms
used in a sale, which is one reason why leasing can be so
confusing.
Capitalized cost is the price on which the lease is based. It is
the price the bank or finance company pays the dealer, plus
extras such as service contracts and insurance. You should be
aware that this figure is negotiable, just as the price of a car
you are buying is negotiable. The lower the capitalized cost,
the lower your monthly payments and the lower the overall cost
of the lease.
Money Factor (also known as the lease rate) is similar to the
interest rate on a car loan. It is a source of confusion for
consumers, because it appears as a much lower rate. To compare
it to an interest rate, you have to multiply it by 2400 (for
example, a money factor of .00310 is the same as an interest
rate of 7.4%).
Ask what the "money factor" is. Dealers are not required by law
to disclose this figure to you. However, it is an important
piece of the picture, so you should ask what it is and determine
if it is competitive. You may be able to negotiate a lower rate
and thus bring down your monthly payment. If the dealer won’t
disclose the money factor to you, you probably don’t want to
lease your car there.
Tips for Smart Consumers - Car Leasing - A Message from
Attorney General Bill Sorrell
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Thinking about a new electric car, but not sure where to begin?
We’d suggest you consider whether you want to purchase or lease
your new plug-in vehicle.
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 29, 2015, 11:00 pm
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[move][b]The Key to Cheap Electric Cars? Ditch the Steering
Wheel
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Mark Frohnmayer loves to drive. But he’s never quite been able
to square that passion with his environmental concerns. He just
found the idea of using a gas-powered, two-ton contraption to
carry a single person a few miles each day absurd. Eight years
ago—before the Tesla Roadster hit the market—he decided what he
needed was a small electric car that could reliably carry him
around his hometown of Eugene, Oregon and was fun to drive. He
couldn’t find one, so he decided to design his own.
The strange thing to Frohnmayer was that all the technology for
building a practical, cheap, and safe electric vehicle were
available. But no one had put all of the pieces together,
despite the fact the potential market for such a product was
huge, given the surging demand for cars in emerging markets like
India and China. With Tesla focusing on the luxury market, he
saw a big need for an affordable electric vehicle.
It turned out, of course, that that was easier said than done.
Over the past eight years Frohnmayer’s startup Arcimoto has
shown off several quirky three-wheeled prototypes—Firefly star
Nathan Fillion famously pre-ordered one in 2010 and talked it up
on Conan a couple years ago. But the team struggled to hit on
the perfect design that would enable them to bring the vehicle
to the mass market. Now, eight years later, Frohnmayer and
company have finally prototyped a “car” that he believes meets
all his criteria and will sell for less than $12,000. The key to
creating something that was cheap, efficient and comfortable, it
turned out, was ditching the steering wheel.
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[center]Arcimoto SRK[/center]
The result of those efforts is the SRK, a two-seat,
three-wheeled electric vehicle that looks like the spawn of a
golf cart and an ATV. The company plans to begin selling it in
late 2016 or early 2017. It’s officially classed as a
motorcycle, which means it doesn’t have to meet the same
rigorous safety standards as a four-wheeled car. But unlike a
motorcycle with only two wheels, you don’t need to learn
anything new to drive it (though you might need a motorcycle
license in some states). It also has a protective shell, and,
for an additional fee, it can be upgraded to a fully enclosed
model. The prototype’s 12 kilowatt lithium ion battery has a
range of about 70 miles, and can hit speeds of at least 85 miles
per hour. And it can hit them fast: it can go from zero to 60
miles per hour in only 7.5 seconds. It’s only 105 inches long,
which means you can park it like a motorcycle, but it’s tall
enough for Frohnmayer, who stands 6-feet-4-inches tall to sit in
it comfortably.
You won’t be able to use for family vacations or hauling lumber,
but it should do just fine at commuting to work, picking up
groceries, delivering pizzas, or just giving a friend a lift.
For urban drivers—especially those in the dense, growing of
India and China—it can cover a lot of what you’d need to do.
And, yes, it’s a heck of a lot of fun to drive.
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The Clever Version[/center]
Of course the scrapyard of history is littered with the burnt
out husks of failed electric car companies, and three-wheeled
vehicles have a particularly bad record. But Tesla Motors
co-founder Marc Tarpenning, an informal advisor to Arcimoto,
says that Frohnmayer and his team’s sense of design sets them
apart from the pack.
“I get an almost endless stream of people wanting to talk about
their latest thing,” he says. “I have seen a whole bunch of
these three-wheel electric vehicles, but this happens to be the
most clever version.”
Before starting Arcimoto, Frohnmayer’s only experience in the
automotive industry were a couple of summer internships at
General Motors while studying computer science and electrical
engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He also
spent some time interning for an electronics company in
Indianapolis but decided large engineering teams weren’t for
him.
'I have seen a whole bunch of these three-wheel electric
vehicles, but this happens to be the most clever version.'
—Tesla Co-Founder Marc Tarpenning
After graduation, he moved home to Eugene and landed a job at
the video game company Dynamix before co-founding GarageGames in
2000. The team sold the company in 2007, and he started Arcimoto
with his cut of the sale.
Fortunately, Frohnmayer, who now commutes to work on a OneWheel
electric skateboard, doesn’t have to go it alone. While Oregon
might not sound like a great place to start a car company, but
it has been home to just enough automakers—such as Freightliner
Trucks and RV company Country Couch—that he had a pool of
qualified engineers and industrial designers Frohnmayer could
tap to help turn his vision into real, drivable prototypes.
[center]
Only the Essentials[/center]
Where Tesla has focused on adding everything a driver could
possibly want, Arcimoto has worked to subtract everything that
isn’t absolutely essential. The trick is determining just what
is absolutely necessary and what isn’t. And for that, the team
has turned to extensive market research.
The original SRK design was too minimal. It would only carry one
person and had no protection from bad weather. According to
Arcimoto’s consumer research, the minimum requirements for a
personal vehicle are a range of at least 60 miles, protection
from the elements, at least two seats and enough oomph to drive
on the highway. If the price is right, people are willing to
give up stereos, cup holders, air conditioning, and giant
touchscreen displays. That price, it turns out, is $12,000.
One of the first issues the team had to solve in the early days
was safety. To keep costs down, the SRK would have to be a
three-wheeler. Although Frohnmayer says that proposed
legislation to increase regulation on three wheel vehicles
wouldn’t apply to the SRK, the company still needs to ensure
that its vehicles are safe—especially given the lousy reputation
of vehicles with three wheels.
To deal with this, Arcimoto centered the battery and drivetrain
at the bottom of the vehicle, much as Tesla Motors has done with
the Model S. Of course, the final versions of the SRK will have
to go through rigorous testing to verify their safety, but
Tarpenning says most of this can be modeled in advance. “It’s
all about where you put the center of mass,” he says. “If you
put in the right place and get the balance right it’s going to
be real stable.”
[center]The Breakthrough[/center]
Few companies have been able to pack even that meager feature
list into a vehicle for that price. The Zero electric motorcycle
doesn’t provide protection from the elements. Toyota i-Road only
seats one person. The Daimler Smart Electric costs over $20,000.
At $8,000, the four-door Renault Twizy is a contender, but so
far it’s only for sale available in Europe or as an hourly
rental in San Francisco (and the US version’s speed is capped at
25 miles per hour).1
It took seven years for Arcimoto to develop a prototype that
included all of what it wanted. Even then, Frohnmayer was
unhappy with the results. The SRK was still a bit bigger than
the team had hoped. It was also uncomfortable to get in and out
of, and passengers had to awkwardly straddle the driver. Then
one rainy day last December, Frohnmayer had an idea. What if
they replaced the steering wheel with handlebars like the ones
found on motorcycles and scooters? He did some mockups and
realized it would save a ton of space. So he went into the
workshop the next day and suggested the team start all over
again with a new handlebar-based design.
At first the team thought he was crazy, says lead mechanical
designer Jim Jordan. But his mind changed when he started
running the numbers. Switching to the handlebar design would
enable passengers to sit upright, slim the vehicle down by 500
pounds, and shave 20 inches off the length, enabling it to be
parked like a motorcycle—all without reducing the power of the
engine. The simplicity could also have a major impact on
manufacturing the SRK. While Tesla has been plagued by delays
due to its incredibly complex supply chain, Frohnmayer says the
SRK will have only around 1,000 parts, which will make it far
easier to build.
[center]Still Too Expensive? ???[/center]
But even at $12,000, the Arcimoto may be too expensive, warns
Sam Abuelsamid, a senior research analyst specializing in the
automotive industry at Navigant Research. After all, you can buy
a Mitsubishi i-MiEV for about $15,495 after incentives (as of
now, the 10 percent federal tax credit for electric motorcycles
has expired). That extra few thousand dollars will buy you two
more seats, an extra wheel, and the peace of mind that comes
with knowing that your vehicle meets the more rigid safety
standards set for four-wheeled vehicles—not to mention a vehicle
engineered and built by an established automaker.
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[center]Renault Twizy[/center]
If Renault takes the Twizy worldwide, it could be a solid
competitor to Arcimoto, assuming the legal hurdles are cleared.
Meanwhile, China is producing its own patch of homegrown
electric vehicles. And though Abuelsamid thinks it could find a
niche in the US, he worries it’s simply too expensive for
developing markets. “If you look at a market like China, India
or South America, the up-and-coming customers, those markets are
full of people who still get around on scooters,” Abuelsamid
says. “But if you’re going after that customer, $13,000 might be
too high a price.”
Frohnmayer and company are already thinking about a new, lower
cost version of the SRK for emerging markets. Thanks to the
handlebar breakthrough, Frohnmayer thinks it might be possible
to create a new, less expensive version based on cheaper lead
batteries now that the overall weight and size have been
reduced. But based on the company’s research, he and his
investors are convinced that $12,000 is the sweet spot in the
US. And Frohnmayer says the company will compete on more than
just price. The SRK’s tiny footprint will make it more energy
efficient than full-sized electric cars like the i-MiEV, which
could be a big selling point.
The purchase of a car or motorcycle isn’t a purely rational
concern. There’s always an emotional component at play. The SRK
may live or die based on the very first requirement that
Frohnmayer set for the vehicle back in 2007: whether people
think it’s fun to drive. Personally, I had a blast driving it
around Eugene last summer. Its small size and open nature make
driving even just 30 miles an hour feel like you’re flying. You
might find it boring if you’re used to riding a motorcyle, but
for those of us who spend most of our drive time behind the
wheel of a station wagon, the SRK is liberating. But is it fun
enough to win over the masses?
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That’s
the part of the company’s the business model that’s impossible
to quantify.
1 Correction 10/18/2015 at 10:00 AM ET: An earlier version of
this story said that the Renault Twizy was not available in
North America. It’s been updated with information that the Twizy
is now available as an hourly rental in San Francisco.
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 4, 2015, 1:38 pm
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[center]Pledge Signed to Make All New Passenger Vehicles Zero
Emissions by 2050[/center]
Simon Mui, Natural Resources Defense Council | December 4, 2015
11:45 am
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Better late than never, I guess.
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 4, 2015, 7:11 pm
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[center]Toyota Launches Two-Seat i-Road In Tokyo[/center]
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Editor’s Note: While Toyota may be dragging its feet on the
full-sized electric car market, I have to admit that I’ve loved
this i-Road thingie since I first laid eyes on it. I hope Toyota
isn’t just fooling around and will bring this to markets
worldwide at some point. Here’s more on the latest i-Road from
Henry Lindon, via Sustainnovate. –Zach'
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 21, 2015, 6:01 pm
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[center]Elon Musk Signs Open Letter Proposing Radical Fix to
VW’s Emission Scandal
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Cole Mellino | December 21, 2015 11:42 am
A group of prominent green technology investors and advocates
sent an open letter (see below) to the California Air Resources
Board (CARB) Thursday. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former eBay
President Jeff Skoll, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael
Brune, Carl Pope of Inside Straight Strategies and SolarCity CEO
Lyndon Rive were among the 45 signatories urging CARB to rethink
its plan to recall Volkswagen cars with emissions-cheating
software.
The letter urges the state’s emissions regulators to “abandon
the plan to force Volkswagen to fix their emissions-cheating
cars and instead require that the company put the resources it
would take to accomplish that into transitioning to a
zero-emissions car company.”
The authors of the letter call the plan “costly and
impractical.” They warn CARB against wasting materials and
money, arguing that “a giant sum of money [will] be wasted in
attempting to fix cars that cannot all be fixed, and where the
fix may be worse than the problem if the cars are crushed well
before the end of their useful lives.”
Instead, they suggest mandating VW to “accelerate greatly its
rollout of zero-emission vehicles, which by their very nature,
have zero emissions and thus present zero opportunities for
cheating, and also do not require any enforcement dollars to
verify,” the letter reads.
The authors cite “net greater carbon dioxide emissions, a
regulated pollutant” as further reason for CARB not to execute
its current plan, along with “compromise[d] performance” of the
fixed vehicles. To heed its proposed alternative solution “would
be a real win for California emissions, a big win for California
jobs and a historic action to help derail climate change.”
CARB declined to directly address the letter. “Our focus has and
will continue to be cleaning the air and advancing the cleanest
vehicle and fuel technologies,” CARB spokesperson Dave Clegern
told Newsweek.
Here’s the letter in its entirety:
[center]An Open Letter to California Air Resources Board
Chairman Mary Nichols[/center]
The VW emissions scandal is mainly the result of physics meeting
fiction. In the simplest terms, we have reached the point of de
miminis returns in extracting performance from a gallon of
diesel while reducing pollutants, at least at reasonable cost.
Unsurprisingly, and despite having the greatest research and
development program in diesel engines, VW had to cheat to meet
current European and U.S. standards. Meeting future tighter
diesel standards will prove even more fruitless.
For a significant fraction of the non-compliant diesel cars
already in the hands of drivers, there is no real solution.
Drivers won’t come in for a fix that compromises performance.
Further, solutions which result in net greater CO2 emissions, a
regulated pollutant, are inappropriate for CARB to endorse.
Retrofitting urea tank systems to small cars is costly and
impractical. Some cars may be fixed, but many won’t and will be
crushed before they are fixed.
A giant sum of money thus will be wasted in attempting to fix
cars that cannot all be fixed, and where the fix may be worse
than the problem if the cars are crushed well before the end of
their useful lives. We, the undersigned, instead encourage the
CARB to show leadership in directing VW to “cure the air, not
the cars” and reap multiples of what damage has been caused
while strongly advancing California’s interests in transitioning
to zero-emission vehicles.
The solution we propose for VW and the CARB is to, in a legally
enforceable form:
1. Release VW from its obligation to fix diesel cars already on
the road in California, which represent an insignificant portion
of total vehicles emissions in the state, and which cars do not,
individually, present any emissions-related risk to their owners
or occupants
2. Instead, direct VW to accelerate greatly its rollout of
zero-emission vehicles, which by their very nature, have zero
emissions and thus present zero opportunities for cheating, and
also do not require any enforcement dollars to verify
3. Require that this acceleration of the rollout of zero
emissions vehicles by VW result in a 10 for 1 or greater
reduction in pollutant emissions as compared to the pollution
associated with the diesel fleet cheating, and achieve this over
the next 5 years
4. Require that VW invest in new manufacturing plants and/or
research and development, in the amounts that they otherwise
would have been fined, and do so in California to the extent
that California would have been allocated its share of the fines
5. Allow VW some flexibility in the execution and timing of this
plan by allowing it to be implemented via zero-emission vehicle
credits.
In contrast to the punishments and recalls being considered,
this proposal would be a real win for California emissions, a
big win for California jobs, and a historic action to help
derail climate change.
The bottleneck to the greater availability of zero emissions
vehicles is the availability of batteries. There is an urgent
need to build more battery factories to increase battery supply,
and this proposal would ensure that large battery plant and
related investments, with their ensuing local jobs, would be
made in the U.S. by VW.
A satisfactory way to fix all the diesel cars does not likely
exist, so this solution sidesteps the great injury and
uncertainty that imposing an ineffective fix would place on
individual diesel car owners. A drawn out and partial failure of
the process will only exacerbate the public’s lack of trust in
the industry and its regulators. By explicit design, this
proposal would achieve, in contrast, a minimum of a 10X
reduction in pollutant emissions as compared to a complete fix.
There is a precedent for this type of resolution. In the
industry-wide 1990 diesel truck cheating scandal, the EPA chose
not to require an interim recall but instead moved up the
deadline for tougher standards to make up the difference. This
proposal does the same for VW and ties the solution to a
transition to zero emissions vehicles.
We strongly urge CARB to consider this proposal in resolving the
VW cheating scandal.
Ion Yadigaroglu, Partner, Capricorn Investment Group;
Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla and SpaceX;
Jeff Skoll, CEO, Jeff Skoll Group;
Dipender Saluja, Partner, Capricorn Investment Group;
Carl Pope, Inside Straight Strategies,
Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO, Social Capital;
Ira Ehrenpreis, Partner, DBL Partners;
Hal Harvey, CEO, Energy Innovation;
Antonio Gracias, CEO, Valor Equity Partners;
Lyndon Rive, CEO, SolarCity;
Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club;
Cole Frates, Renewable Resources Group;
Ari Swiller, Renewable Resources Group;
Lawrence Bender, Producer, An Inconvenient Truth;
Reuben Munger, Partner, Vision Ridge;
Jigar Shah, President, Generate Capital Angel;
Jason Calacanis, Launch Fund Partner;
Gregory Manuel, MNL Partners;
Adam Wolfensohn, Partner, Encourage Capital;
Jason Scott, Partner, Encourage Capital;
Martin Roscheisen, CEO, Diamond Foundry;
Steve Westly, Former California State Controller;
Jules Kortenhorst, CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute;
Steven Dietz, Partner, Upfront Ventures;
Kevin Parker, CEO, Sustainable Insight Capital;
Anja Manuel, Partner, RiceHadleyGates;
Larry Lunt, CEO, Armonia;
Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres;
Tom Darden, Partner, Cherokee Fund;
Panos Ninios, Partner, True Green Capital;
Jesse Fink, Chairman, MissionPoint;
Matt Breidert, Senior Portfolio Manager,
Ecofin; Suhail Rizvi, CEO, Rizvi Traverse;
Jeffrey Tannenbaum, Chairman, sPower;
Rob Davenport, Managing Partner, Brightpath Capital;
Stuart Davidson, Chairman, Sonen;
Laurence Levi, Partner, VO2 Partners;
Rob Day, Partner, Black Coral Capital;
Dan Fuller, CIO, Fuller Smith;
Nicholas Eisenberger, Partner, Pure Energy;
Marc Stuart, CEO, Allotrope Partners;
Justin Kamine, Kamine Development;
Peter R. Stein, Managing Director, Lyme Timber;
Bruce Kahn, PM, Sustainable Insight; and
Raúl Pomares, Capital Managing Director, Sonen
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Agelbert Comment: Elon Musk is right. It's time to stop pu ssy
footing around the reality of dirty emissions and the
degradation of the biosphere and human health that they DIRECTLY
cause. Refining emissions from a polluting engine is like being
half pregnant with Rosemary's Baby.
The internal combustion engine HAS TO GO, PERIOD!
Dr. Richard A. Houghton, acting president of the WOODS HOLE
RESEARCH CENTER says TINA to a Low Carbon Economy[
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 3, 2016, 5:08 pm
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[center]Mercedes F 015 Hydrogen Electric hybrid will have a
range of 680 miles! :o ;D[/center]
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 5, 2016, 3:11 pm
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> Chinese-backed and their first plant will be in...get this...
LAS VEGAS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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> This is a sure winner. Sign me up for some stock in this
company. ::)
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> RE
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> Faraday Future unveils Batmobile-like electric concept car at
CES
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> Faraday's FFZERO1 concept car was unveiled at CES in Las
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> Andrea ChangAndrea ChangContact Reporter
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> The wait is over.
>
> Faraday Future, the secretive Chinese-backed Gardena
automaker, finally unveiled its first concept car at CES: a
sleek, silver-and-black Batmobile-esque electric vehicle called
the FFZERO1.
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> The 1,000-horsepower car was revealed Monday night during a
launch event attended by hundreds of media. It can accelerate
from zero to 60 in fewer than three seconds, with a top speed of
more than 200 miles-per-hour.
>
> Richard Kim, Faraday's head of global design, called the
vehicle a "high-performance electric dream car" designed to
"fight ugliness."
>
> With its single-seat configuration and, if it ever goes into
limited production, almost certain sky-high price tag
(executives didn't comment on financials), the FFZERO1 concept
car won't become ubiquitous anytime soon.
>
> Nick Sampson, Faraday's senior vice president of research and
development and product development, noted that when Faraday
does release its first production car to market in a couple of
years, it will be something more approachable. The car might be
a sedan or maybe an SUV, although he noted that it will start
out as a premium product, with a premium price.
>
> Over time, Faraday would like to produce a car that is more
affordable, he said.
>
> Although a production vehicle is still a ways out, Faraday has
generated significant buzz since its inception 18 months ago. In
that time, it has grown to 750 employees worldwide and recently
announced that it would build its first manufacturing facility
in North Las Vegas.
>
> Faraday will break ground on that site in the next few weeks;
when it is completed, it will be 3 million square feet and house
4,500 workers.
>
> Faraday's mission, Sampson said, is "a complete rethink of
what mobility means." It wants to bring a speedier,
technology-driven focus to car-making modeled after the
innovations coming out of Silicon Valley.
>
> "We must anticipate the future and act upon it with speed,
decisiveness and a willingness to be more like a technology
company rather than an automotive company," Sampson said. "We
have a very transformative vision."
>
> The hype surrounding the company has also led to speculation
that it could become a real rival to Tesla. Faraday execs
appeared to welcome those comparisons, and took a few gentle
jabs at the fellow SoCal automaker.
>
> "Tesla and Elon Musk have created something incredible and we
should applaud them for it," Sampson, who formerly worked at
Tesla, said. But he noted it took Tesla nine years to develop
its first mass-market production vehicle, while Faraday is
moving at a much faster rate, from rapidly scaling up its
workforce to attempting to roll out a car in a couple of years.
>
> And he was quick to point out that Faraday has hired several
employees who used to work at Tesla, Apple, Google and BMW.
>
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 6, 2016, 9:35 pm
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New report: Electric cars, buses, boats will be everywhere by
2026 ;D
Sami Grover (@samigrover)
Transportation / Cars
December 30, 2015
I've been documenting my experiences with a used Nissan Leaf,
and I often reflect on just how quickly electric vehicles are
becoming a mainstream transportation option. True, they are
still a rare sight compared to their gas and diesel
counterparts, but I am no longer surprised to see several Leafs,
Teslas and Volts each time I leave my home. (It does help that
my neighbor over the road drives a Volt.)
If a new report from the analysts at IDTechEx Research is to be
believed, it looks like this trend is set to not only
continue—but increasingly it will accelerate and expand into all
sectors of the transportation industry including industrial
vehicles, boats, planes, buses and more.
According to Business Green's write up of the report, the growth
between now and 2026 will be "breakneck"—with the total market
eventually reaching $500bn by 2026.
Interestingly, given how much we TreeHuggers prefer electric
buses and worry that electric cars still perpetuate bad
planning, the report sees much of the growth (and profitability)
coming from industrial and commercial electric vehicles as more
cities aim to tackle chronic air pollution.
The report also suggests that commercial and industrial markets
will be less vulnerable to policy changes than electric cars
which, for now at least, are still fairly dependent on tax
breaks and/or subsidies to compete with their gas-fueled
counterparts. (Of course, this wouldn't be the case if the
price of gas matched its true cost... )
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Agelbert NOTE: [/b][/i][/size][/color] And what do the fossil
fuelers say? ???
They say. "But, but, Saudi Arabia
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for
such integrity in energy statistics and sources and NEVER, NEVER
telling a fib for oil or money ;), SAYS SO.
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Re: Electric Vehicles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 7, 2016, 5:23 pm
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This applies to internal combustion powered vehicles. I post it
here to underline the fact the electric vehicles powered with
renewable energy derived electricity are the only real world
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(when ALL costs are
figured) method of transportation for human civilization. The
continued manufacture and sale of internal combustion engines
for transportation, unless they are powered by ethanol, profit
polluters that have degraded our democracy and our biosphere.
That is stupid.
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The video below is from 2012 but the polluting facts AND COSTS
in regard to fossil fuels still apply, even if the nominal price
at the pump is now much lower.
It is interesting to note that they discuss costs of fossil
fuels caused pollution in Los Angeles, which now will be MUCH
HIGHER, thanks to the Aliso Canyon Fracked Gas Blowout that
cannot be plugged until March of 2016.
The shills for fossil fuels like Nicole Foss and Gail Tverberg
have consistently denied the thermodynamic and pollution cost
FACTS in the video because it is their JOB to LIE and DECEIVE on
behalf of the Fossil Fuel Corporate Welfare Queens. Bought and
paid for "energy experts" like Nicole Foss and Gail Tverberg are
worthy of disdain and derision. Their lies will eventually catch
up with them. But, unfortunately for the biosphere, they will
always have a loyal following of dirty energy prefering, status
quo worshipping, ethics challenged fools who listen to them.
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SNIPPET from 2012 article accompanying the video:
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> The video above, from the Center for Investigative Reporting
does a good job of explaining how those costs are
incurred—though it doesn't mention a few things, like the cost
of maintaining a military presence in volatile, oil-exporting
regions. Which means that the true cost of gas may be even
higher than $15 a gallon ...
>
> And that means that we should probably be looking for a way to
make the market better reflect those true costs, while buffering
those who'd be hurt most from such a spike—that's one of the
reasons that fee and dividend is such a clever policy idea.
>
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