Who is investing more, utilities or automakers?
Toyota wants the credit.
Since automakers are footing the bill to develop plug-in vehicles, Toyota believes that “potentially valuable emissions credits that California plans to give to utilities for supporting rechargeable cars should go to automakers instead.”
The utilities have responded, “in state filings that clean-fuel credits will help them pay [...] [...]
Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn believes battery-powered cars will make up 10 percent of global new car sales by 2020. Most mainstream market analysts are projecting numbers closer to 1 or 2 percent [...] [...]
Buy the Leaf, rent the $10,000 battery?
By 2020, Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn recently claimed, 10 percent of worldwide vehicle sales will be electric vehicles.
Global Insight, however, puts that EV market share figure at .06 percent, according to the DetroitNews.
Likewise, the same article cites a CitiGroup Markets Report aimed at investors in the power utilities and the [...] [...]
SHANGHAI, Oct. 13, 2009 – Ford Motor Company continued its record growth in China in the third quarter, with sales of its joint-ventures and wholly-owned entities increasing 79 percent over the same period last year, to 119,338 units. Through the first nine months of the year, its sales rose 32 percent to 316,639 units.
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Ford today reported that strong sales in September drove market share for its 19 European main markets to 10.1 percent – the highest share for any month since September 2001, and a 0.8 percentage point increase over the same month a year ago.
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Sweetest Day is right around the corner, and for forward-thinking florists Ford Motor Company’s versatile Transit Connect is ready to deliver.
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