Sentences with phrase «sales of electric cars»

Nor do they typically profit from sales of electric cars or solar panels (although some may have individual small investments in that area).

The Renault - Nissan Alliance currently leads all other makers in total global sales of electric cars.

The company keeps constant watch on sales of electric cars already on the market like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt.

Cheap gasoline may have slowed the trend somewhat, as sales of electric cars in the United States fell 4 % in 2015.

While growth in EV sales in the United States continues on a steady but incremental path — roughly one - percent of the American vehicle market — sales of electric cars and plug - in hybrids in China is expected to leap from 700,000 vehicles in 2017 to more than 2 million «new energy vehicles» by next year.

On the heels of their success pushing sales of electric cars, Norway want to spur the move to electric airplanes

As of April 2015, for example, sales of electric cars had dropped by 3.4 % over last year's figures and gas was averaging $ 2.66 a gallon.

The sales of electric cars will not be linear.

Since the launch of the Drive Clean Rebate for electric vehicles in March, New York state has seen a 74 percent increase in sales of electric cars over the same period in 2016, according to a press release published last week by New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

While Costa Rican legislators have recently approved a law to increase the sales of electric cars, exempting them from all taxes, which will eventually help to reduce CO2 pollution and fossil fuel consumption, it will not ameliorate the situation of overcrowded and underfunded public roads that make Costa Rica one of the top 10 worst countries to drive in.

These policies have boosted sales of electric cars to Chinese consumers to 188,000 last year, easily ahead of the U.S., where 116,000 were sold.

If we stopped selling gasoline and diesel powered cars today and only allowed the sale of electric cars, it would take 20 years to get all the gasoline and diesel powered cars off the road.

Via Financial Times, AutoblogGreen More Car Articles BYD Delays Sale of Electric Cars in North - America to 2011 Toyota Passo Sette: Yaris - Sized 7 Seat MPV GM Puts the Brakes on $ 370 Million Chevy Volt Engine Factory

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

Infographic: In March, GM halted production of its Chevrolet Volt electric hybrid car for five weeks, citing insufficient sales.

Tesla doesn't sell even 100,000 cars a year yet, but is in the lead in the electric car market, making it an important bellwether of future chip sales in that area.

Ten years ago, he wrote the original Master Plan, which included the development and sale of a luxury electric sports car, a lower - cost electric car, a mainstream low - cost car, and also the rise of solar roofs.

If 2010 hybrid sales are any indication, consumers in the rest of the country won't be rushing out to purchase electric cars in record numbers, either.

Bakken is a co-author of a global forecast on energy that predicts almost all new sales of cars across Europe to be electric or hybrid within 20 years.

Elon Musk's electric - car maker has outmaneuvered the competition at every turn, revving up a massive market capitalization (nearly $ 60 billion) despite having built relatively few cars and annual sales that are a fraction of the revenues of old - line automakers GM and Ford.

The shift away from pure fossil - fuel engines has been so fast that 2017 sales of cars using some form of electric battery power topped out at 52 percent, according to the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV).

The unfortunate reality is the opposite: Electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1 % of their total vehicle sales.

Volvo, which is owned by China's Greely Holdings, said in October that it's building an all - electric car by 2019 and that it expects electric cars to make up 10 % of its global sales by 2020.

Capital raise after capital raise obviously signals an intense cash burn rate, but if Tesla is going to change the world and push electric cars to a point where they constitute more than 1 % of global auto sales, chilling out on the spending and letting the balance sheet take a breather doesn't make much sense.

It's the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric cars and the maker of the popular Prius car, one of the world's top - selling hybrids with over 6 million cars sold worldwide as of January 2017.

Taxpayer incentives in Norway helped spark purchases of electric vehicles that now make up 17 % of the nation's new car sales — up from barely anything a few years prior, according to Bloomberg.

Although the emissions scandal has tarnished its reputation and triggered a multitude of lawsuits, VW has maintained sales in part by offering incentives to buyers in the United States and other markets while it repositions its business by investing in electric cars and on - demand transport services.

Toyota saw sales of its gas - electric hybrid cars, such as the fuel - efficient Prius, rise 50 percent compared with February 2010.

The profit that Tesla Motors booked for the third quarter was boosted by the company's record sales of its existing electric vehicles, along with the cost reductions and the sale of pollution tax credits to other car manufacturers.

40 % of clean energy investment in 2017 occurred in China, as did roughly half of all plug - in electric car sales.

Consider this: Roughly half of all electric cars sold globally last year were in China, which saw a 73 - per - cent increase in EV sales over 2016.

Incentives such as cash subsidies and distribution of free car licencee have boosted sales of electric and plug - in hybrid cars since 2014.

In 2016, just 0.6 per cent of car sales in Canada were for electric vehicles, well behind...

Some didn't make the final bill and remain unchanged — including capital gains rules for the sale of a primary residence, deductions for student loan interest, treatment of tuition waivers, adoption assistance, investment interest, teachers» out - of - pocket expenses, and the credit for electric car purchases.

Sid Rajeev, Vice President, Head of Research at Fundamental Research Corp., notes, «The Commodities Research Unit («CRU») Group estimates electric car and plug - in hybrid vehicle sales could reach approximately 14.2 million by 2025, up from 0.77 million last year, reflecting a compound average growth rate of 38 per cent per year from 2016 to 2025.»

As of September 2015, there are over 30 models of highway legal all - electric passenger cars and utility vans available for retail sales, mainly in the United States, China, Japan, Western European countries.

By mid-September 2015, about 620,000 light - duty electric vehicles have been sold worldwide out of total global sales of one million plug - in electric cars sold since 2008.

Both traditional automakers and the bevy of startups see potential in the government's commitment to boost yearly sales of new - energy vehicles — its term for plug - in hybrid and fully - electric cars — by 10-fold in the next decade.

«We are installing solar - powered electric vehicle charging stations for employee cars and we're also looking into electrifying our fleet of sales vehicles,» Vice President Aaron Grogan says.

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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.

China has already taken a series of measures to fight pollution, including restricting car sales in major cities and providing incentives for selling electric vehicles.

The growing share of new car sales taken up by electric cars will have reached 10 - 15 %.

The report says that the design team has completed work on the new electric car, which will launch at the end of this year before going on sale in 2019.

BYD's ambitious plans include 350,000 total sales this year (double the number of cars delivered last year), a new pure - electric model, and entry into the U.S. market next year.

If we expect costs to fall by half in 2025, which is a difficult target, it won't necessarily lead to volume sales of pure - electric cars.

Tesla has stated it does not have the resources to establish a dealer network given the current level of sales of its high - end, electric cars.

When Smart U.S. announced that its lineup would go fully electric, many dealers decided to axe the brand as sales declined from around 7,000 cars sold each year to just 2,900 through 11 months of 2017.

Slow sales of small cars, electrics, and hybrids have prompted Ford to cut one shift at its Michigan Assembly Plant starting June 22.

Either way those numbers are less than its Model S sibling, but they're still more than the majority of other more affordable electric cars on sale today.