Electric cars could have 10-20% of the market in 10 years
Posted: March 22, 2010 Filed under: Cars & traffic | Tags: Better Place Australia, electric vehicles, Evan Thornley, plug in, RACV Leave a commentEvan Thornley, the CEO of Better Place Australia, predicted on Inside Business yesterday that plug-in vehicles will have 10-20% of the Australian vehicle market by 2020 and the entire national vehicle fleet will have transitioned from petrol to electricity in 20-25 years. Better Place Australia, which is in the business of providing the support infrastructure for plug-in vehicles,will start in Canberra in late 2011 and will then roll out throughout the country starting late 2012. RACV has taken a $2 million stake in the company.
Where cars might be heading
Posted: March 17, 2010 Filed under: Cars & traffic | Tags: electric vehicles, MIT Media Lab, Ryan Chin, shared use vehicle Leave a commentI’ve previously written in The Age (Efficiency the key to car culture) about the need to speed up the shift to smaller, lighter more environmentally friendly vehicles. This electric two passenger shared use vehicle designed at the MIT Media Lab gives an idea of where cars might be going in the immediate future. Read the rest of this entry »
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