Category: Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles

It’s pathetic to see garbage like this (at left). General Motors sold 6 million gas-powered cars and light-duty trucks last year.  Their target for 2026?  Zero.  Not a single one. GM, market cap $46 billion, has placed 100% of its …

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The company looking for investors to build and market this new form of transportation (see left) points out a key driver of the product’s ultimate success: No Pilot’s License Needed. I see a day when the air is filled with …

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“The car drove us around downtown London, which is one of the most challenging driving environments imaginable, and it was a bit surreal to be in the car as it dodged all the traffic,” Gates said. According to what Bill …

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Here’s a company that is advertising heavily to attract investors, on the basis of their claim: Eli is a different kind of electric car. Really? Different in what way? It’s small, low speed, used for short distances, and follows a …

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The world is changing in so many different ways, and several of these are in our response to COVID.  Commute into an office?  Why, when you can work from home and remain socially distanced? Even post-COVID, we’re faced with a …

The Morning and Evening Commutes Made Easy Read More »

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In reference to my recent post: What EV Are, and Are Not, in Our Future, a reader notes: You need a Microlino – right? I say no… if you care not about your body. But someday, we might have little …

Are “Microlinos” the Future of Transportation? Read More »

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When I come across an animated video for a little and unattractive “car of the future,” I normally conclude: “Well of course it’s animated, because nothing even remotely close to this will ever actually be built, because it will have …

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Here’s a little hate mail on my recent post: General Motors Building a New V-8 Engine: At least someone in that company has the brains to build what the public wants not electric motors shoved up our butts. There is …

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When I was a small boy in 1965, my grandfather bought me some stock in General Motors at $32 per share.  His purpose was to show me how wonderful capitalism is, by enabling me to see my money working for …

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