{"id":1119,"date":"2014-08-08T06:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2014-08-08T06:53:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T13:53:48","slug":"ev-market-tepid-except-for-all-the-cars-being-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2014\/08\/ev-market-tepid-except-for-all-the-cars-being-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Market Tepid, Except for All the Cars Being Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seen on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dalebuss\/2014\/08\/07\/new-volt-is-coming-but-its-not-a-mass-market-vehicle-anymore\/\">otherwise kinda interesting article from Forbes<\/a> about how Volt sales didn&#8217;t match what GM expected, and how the company is choosing to direct its advertising in another direction for the revamped Volt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And while overall sales of plug-in hybrids and full EVs remain tepid except for Teslas, and U.S. oil supplies look more secure than ever, the future of propulsion always has a way of surprising us. Note, Bunkley wrote, how most people wrote off the future of large SUVs several years ago \u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u201d and now sales are going back through the roof.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Tepid&#8221; except for Teslas?\u00c2\u00a0 Look, I know the author is kinda going for &#8220;Oh, ho hum, EV&#8217;s, they&#8217;re certainly just a flash in the pan technology soon to go away&#8221;, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1120\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-from-2014-08-08-082621.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-from-2014-08-08-082621.png\" alt=\"Chart showing sales of Leaf's nearly triple that of Teslas\" width=\"568\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-from-2014-08-08-082621.png 568w, https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screenshot-from-2014-08-08-082621-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Source: http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2014\/08\/05\/nissan-leaf-still-king-ford-fusion-energi-sales-jump-201\/]<\/figcaption><\/figure>And that&#8217;s not just for the month of July &#8212; that&#8217;s the trend for the <em>entire year<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I expect this kinda thing from BusinessInsider.com &#8212; I don&#8217;t expect it from Forbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen on an otherwise kinda interesting article from Forbes about how Volt sales didn&#8217;t match what GM expected, and how the company is choosing to direct its advertising in another direction for the revamped Volt: And while overall sales of plug-in hybrids and full EVs remain tepid except for Teslas, and U.S. oil supplies look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-i3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}