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Study predicts one million plug-in vehicles by 2015

How fast will the market for plug-in electric vehicles grow? According to Pike Research, it should reach the one million unit threshold by 2015.

It suggests that among the two types of plug-in electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles will take 56 per cent of the market share by 2015. They will be especially popular in the Asia Pacific region, which will represent more than half of the total global market; as well as in Europe.

By contrast, in the US and Canada, Pike expects that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be the preferred choice thanks to their extended driving range and the fact that drivers can fall back on a petrol engine. In that market, plug-in hybrids will represent 71 per cent of all electric vehicle sales by 2015.

In addition, the report looks at the opportunities and challenges facing the market and examines electric drivetrain and battery technology; as well as advanced battery research; government incentives; and regulations. It also lists expected vehicles and forecasts production and vehicle sales through to 2015.

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Paul Lucas, March 30, 2011
Filed under: Electric cars,Green cars,Latest news

2 comments

Chip Daigle

Shouldn’t we be trying to upgrade our source of Electricity before we jump whole hog into Plug-In Hybrids??? Most of our Electricity comes from Dirty Coal and charging a Hybrid pollutes just as much as driving it on Gasoline. Shouldn’t we be bringing more Nuclear plants online, doing Fuel Re-processing, storing spent fuel that can’t be reprocessed in Nevada. France is up to 75%; why cant we get our MIT Goons onboard?

Shouldn’t we be making all new cars, including Plug-In Hybrids, E85 Flex Fuel Vehicles?

Shouldn’t we be doing more Clean, Green, and Advanced Sugarcane Ethanol instead of dirty Corn Ethanol? Repeal the Import tax on Sugarcane Ethanol and Import it at first until we can begin producing it in the USA in the Southern states of LA, TX, FL, HI, etc. Trade Corn (Food) for Clean, Green, and Advanced Sugarcane Ethanol! Win-Win for everybody: South America/Africa gets Food, Jobs, and Boost in Economy; we get Advanced Ethanol. We move away from Dirty Corn Ethanol.

Shouldn’t we be doing more Clean, Green, and Advanced Jatropha Biodiesel in our Generators? Trade Corn (Food) for Jatropha Biodiesel! Win-Win for everybody: South America/Africa gets Food, Jobs, and Boost in Economy; we get clean Jatropha Biodiesel. We move away from Dirty Soybean Biodiesel.

Obama and the Dems have us producing and subsidizing all these Hybrids that will be charged with Dirty Coal. Isn’t the Cart before the Horse???

Chip Daigle
Mandeville, LA

March 31, 2011

ALF

Recognizing that alternate diesel markets of Europe having hybrids different than those in the U.S.A. leads to magnified intelligence about alternatives. European hybrids with electric/diesel? Certainly oppose the petrol(gasoline??)model for the U.S.A. each with its own nationalistic/profit pursuits based on historic fuel modeling I’ve found. But the opportunity is still there none the less. I like the Jatropha comment, but I thought that was like jet fuel grown in tropics. I feel the value of local production needs to be a value of market structuring and should be based on local production capacities. Here in MI I find that dirty soy diesel is usable, and producing alternate market revenues. Further reformation of oils into gases can magnify potential energy recovery by magnitudes. Dirty coal plants simply are like refineries for new fuel/energy recovery pursuits with technologies that the public simply needs to understand, and resulting in the revealing of technologies Like CO-2 deep well injections and other automatic refining reaction that our sub-terrestrially being conducted in North America and are profiteering off industry incentives simultaneously. Utilizing the natural world, and often resulting in local pollution of humanities habitats, with another result, the display of intelligent design. For example here in Ann Arbor,MI I’m even buying landfill gas created with sewage sludge effluent from my own toilet.The scale of application of intelligence to reality simply needs to be down scaled, and the sooner the better.

May 17, 2011

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