Sentences with phrase «electric cars on the road»

«The reason we are doing Tesla is to try to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport, to have there be more electric cars on the road,» Musk said in September during an interview with the Danish news site Borsen.

While there are just three - million electric cars on the road today, BP's most recent Energy Outlook forecasts there will be 300 million by 2040.

This constituted 43 percent of global electric car production and made China the country with the largest number of electric cars on the road, surpassing the United States.

But with upward of 400,000 preorders for the Model 3, Tesla could eventually help double the number of electric cars on the road in the U.S.

With the increasing power supply burden of electric cars on the road, I'm sure utilities will continue to do well.

(3) There were 1.26 million electric cars on the road globally at the end of 2015, according to the International Energy Agency.

And EVs overall are certainly not on track to meet goals such as 75 percent of U.S. vehicles being electric by 2040 or the Obama administration's one million electric cars on the road by 2015.

A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.

It has 1,500 Smart electric cars on the road now.

Stylish and chic, it features unique amenities like the smart Lighting Package, black leather seats, and 15 - inch wheels, all of which combine to make it the premier electric car on the road.

With the number of electric cars on the road growing, at first, all owners suffer from this question:...

With the increasing power supply burden of electric cars on the road, I'm sure utilities will continue to do well.

Right now though we can get good electric cars on the road with good lead acid batteries until the price for better batteries comes down.

Doc, Yes, all that may be true but they are in no way close to their original projected goals - remember Obama wanted 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015.

We are helped and advised by the entire EV community, including many members of the Electric Auto Association and the groups working to keep the remaining electric cars on the roads instead of being «recycled» (Don'tCrush), resolved by Toyota's welcome decision to allow the cars to be purchased by their leaseholders.

He has called for building more nuclear and coal plants, ramping up the state's natural gas use, opening offshore oil and gas resources, as well as putting wind turbines offshore and electric cars on its roads.

There would need be hundreds of million electric cars on the road by 2050, and the amount of CO2 emitted per unit of electricity would need to fall by at least 90 %.

California will put 5 million electric cars on the road by 2030, Gov. Jerry Brown says (Los Angeles Times, Jan. 26, 2018)

The German Federal Government plan to have one million electric cars on its roads by 2020 has failed, according to the analysis of international management consulting firm Bain & Company.

To use that much juice, Black & Veatch estimates there would need to be 65 million electric cars on the road.

Getting a 40 percent cut will require more than bucking up wind and solar and putting more electric cars on the road.

For these reasons, there are already almost one million electric cars on the road, but I think that we will see almost all new cars driving on electricity before long.

Not exact matches

As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Musk recounted the company's bumpy road to building an electric car.

The Chinese government aims to put half a million electric cars or plug - in hybrids on the roads by this year and five million by 2020.

And this doesn't include the fact that electric car owners don't pay into the Highway Trust Fund — which is funded by the per - gallon tax on gasoline and pays for road construction and upkeep.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) expects to have 1 million of its cars on roads by 2020.

Already the world's largest electric - car market, the nation has ambitions to have 7 million such vehicles on the road by 2025.

Over the past several years, high - end hybrids and futuristic electric cars have slowly become more prominent on American roads as consumers realize the impact of fossil fuel consumption on the...

With the standard of electric vehicles becoming more impressive and the release of hybrid and fully - electric road cars on a rapid increase, it makes total sense that manufacturers are keen to associate themselves with a fully - electric racing series.

Porsche's decision comes as the company sets out targets of launching its first range of electric road cars, following on from the Mission E concept, in the near future.

If 1/4 of the cars on the road in the US were all electric, we'd pay less to drive plus a whole lot less on repairs.

• Paul Drayson, in the story on electric car racing (24 September, p 26), referred to the innovations that motorsport in general, not just F1, has brought to road cars.

About 11,000 hybrid buses, pure electric cabs and other types of clean cars are running on China's roads as a result of the program.

And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].

The more electric cars there are on the road, the greater will be the demand for regional and national networks of electric charging stations.

Take a summer road trip into the future of driving: You can hop on an electric scooter designed for the modern urban jungle or get behind the wheel of a car that's more connected than your LinkedIn profile.

For example, electric cars will need to replace the petrol - powered cars driving on our roads.

Apart from approximately 50,000 purely electric cars, roughly 40,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles are presently being operated on German roads.

However, Norway saw a doubling of sales last year, with a total of 4,009 cars, and the number of electric cars on Norwegian roads is now around 11,000.

The Chevrolet Volt, which GM plans to introduce in two years (reportedly at a mid - $ 30,000 base price), is a new breed of gasoline - electric hybrid, cars powered by a battery - powered electric motor that can be recharged on the road with an internal combustion engine.

That almost equals the 340,000 electric cars and plug - in hybrids now on American roads.

As BMW's i8 coupe approaches half a decade on our roads, the Munich firm has given its petrol - electric sports car not only a mid-life facelift, but also increased its electric driving range.

«Just outside Luton» might not sound like the most glamorous location for an exotic and classic car dealer, but behind an electric gate on a country road heading towards Markyate lies one of the most fascinating workshops and showrooms in the country.

@AnoE it is also worth considering the «yet» in this answer - electric cars are still relatively new, and a tiny minority of the cars on the road at least here in the USA.

While this Mitsubishi's egg shape is the ideal container for four adult occupants and a bit of luggage, the sight of one on US roads — especially in right - hand - drive trim and with the exterior decorated in full electric car regalia — is cause for smiles, waves, and pointed fingers.

It's working on its own part of the equation with such ferocity that having its electric - powered cars sans steering wheels and pedals on the road in droves any later than 2030 is considered dour pessimism by anyone inside the gates of the tech giant's Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

The electric running gives it a USP that few other cars in this bracket can boast and on - road performance and composure is staggering, to the extent you really need a track to make the most of it.

Jaguar Land Rover itself will build on that experience to aid development of its future electric - powered road cars.

evo is first to sample the petrol - electric Fisker Karma on European roads - is this the future of the car?