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Sales of electric vehicles are failing to take off as showroom reality przebija marketing hype. "The Guardian" website has just published the figures for the numbers of new cars registered under the Governments Plug-in Car Grant scheme. The scheme gives buyers 25 percent off (up to a maximum of 5000) the price of a rechargeable electric vehicle such as a Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius plug-in or Renault Fluence.
Program jest teraz dwa lata. Według Departamentu transportu dane 1419 samochody zostały zarejestrowane zgodnie z systemem w pierwszych dziewięciu miesiącach 2012 od 786 w 2011 roku. Tak wygląda cały 2012 będzie zobaczyć około 1900 samochody akumulator kupiłem ze dwa miliony samochodów wiadomości, które lewo UK salonów. Co ciekawe tylko małe liczba samochodów zostały zarejestrowane zgodnie z systemem w 2012 roku.
As you might expect the Guardian " has an upbeat quote from Norman Baker, Lib Dem under-secretary of state for Transport. I know electric vehicles have a bright future in this country he says, powołując się na new models due this year including the relatively inexpensive Renault Zoe and the Sunderland-built Nissan Leaf.
I dont know about you, but I can smell burning. The whole electric car edifice may be on the verge of the going up in smoke. The huge hype that drove car makers into spending hundreds of millions into developing electric cars looks like it has led to a developmental dead end.
Take sales of the Chevy Volt i Nissan Leaf - both first-rate cars - in the important US market. GM says that after 7671 units in 2011, Volt sales have jumped to 23,461 units. Thats just more than half of the numbers GM wanted to see, despite low leasing costs. Global sales might hit 30,000 units. And, of course, the Volt has a petrol engine, making it a perfectly viable normal car. Which probably wyjaśnia zmiany why sales of the Nissan Leaf - a pure battery car - look as if they twojej wont hit five figures in the US.
Last month I drove the gas-powered VW Eco Up in Frankfurt, which made me pretty certain that battery power is not going to fly. VW is betting heavily on gas, and has designed both the Ups NSF platform and the new MQB platform to accommodate twin gas tanks. Gas is very clean burning - with virtually no tailpipe pollution and is also low on Co2. Indeed, the Eco Up is good for 79g/km, compared to the estimated 75g/km for recharging an electric car on the European mains network.
A gas-powered car, which could wyobrażalnie be charged off the mains network is also much cheaper than an electric car. And, ironically, the Ups emergency petrol tank gives a 120 mile range - more than youll squeeze out of a car battery.
Truth is the electric car revolution is looking less and less likely. Battery technology is still not advancing far enough and battery prices are still high. And, as one industry source told me, the problems of running electric cars in winter have caught many by surprise and seriously undermined the whole battery car concept. A typical range on a cold winters day can be just half of what is dokonuję in the summer.
Audi ma odwołany elektryczne A2, Opel ma puszkach Adam EV i Fiat jest bardzo otwarty na temat straty elektryczny Fiat 500. Potężna Grupa VW to zakłady na plug-in hybryd, ale głównie po to, aby przebłagać wymagającym rynku kalifornijskie. BMW i3 wygląda bardziej jak przeszłości niż przyszłości. Samochody paliw kopalnych coraz bardziej ekonomiczne silniki Euro 6 zestaw skutecznie wolne od zanieczyszczeń, obawiam się, że koncepcja EV jest już uruchomiony na pusty.