by Randall McAdory | Mar 5, 2020 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, LG Chem, Tesla
After watching today’s web presentation of the General Motors Electric Vehicle Day, here’s what’s significant to me. The company wants to put everyone in an EVThe company is unambiguous. “Climate change is real”GM sees a path using their...
by Randall McAdory | Mar 1, 2020 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors, Hummer, Polestar, Rivian, Tesla, Volvo
On Friday state senators in Colorado passed a bill allowing electric vehicle makers like Rivian to sell directly to consumers. For auto dealers, the most controversial part of the bill was removed. This provision would have allowed automakers with franchised...
by Randall McAdory | Nov 25, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors
In a recent opinion piece on CNN Business, GM’s president (Mark Reuss) describes the three barriers to consumer acceptance of electric vehicle adoption: range, charging infrastructure, and cost. According to GM, range is the most significant barrier to EV...
by Randall McAdory | Oct 30, 2019 | Batteries, China, Electric Vehicles
A few weeks ago, I posted about the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on lithium-ion batteries. In this week’s Automotive News (subscription required), one of those laureates (M. Stanley Whittingham) provides a very interesting...
by Randall McAdory | Oct 26, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
I’m not referring to the company getting better with time. I’m not even referring to this year’s manufactured Tesla vehicle being better than last year’s produced car. Tesla cars – no matter when they’re purchased – get better over time due to the...
by Randall McAdory | Oct 16, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
Steve Lang, a special contributor to Capital One, wrote an interesting piece a few weeks ago titled, The Tesla Effect: How Tesla Is Changing the Used Car Game. Lang asserts that the once strong demand for European luxury brands is declining dramatically due to the...
