News features: evs/phevs
Anti-EV friend refuses to be persuaded![]() The Tesla Model S has won Motor Trend Car of the Year Awards, has won accolades from the mainstream press, has recently been driven more than 400 miles on a single charge, and single-handedly disproves virtually all EV myths, and yet that's still not enough to convince some anti-EV die-hards. Go figure. [Photo Credit: Tesla Motors]
Here’s one I won – sort of: A beaming work colleague came to me last Friday and said she’d just bought a brand new Ford C-Max, the standard hybrid version, that is. And she said, “Christof, you get some credit for this because you and your web page influenced me.” She also said she views her new hybrid as a possible springboard into a future plug-in hybrid. Chalk one up for me ;-) |
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![The Tesla Model S has won Motor Trend Car of the Year Awards, has won accolades from the mainstream press, has recently been driven more than 400 miles on a single charge, and single-handedly disproves virtually all EV myths, and yet that's still not enough to convince some anti-EV die-hards. Go figure. [Photo Credit: Tesla Motors] teslas](/images/stories/blog_photos/teslas.jpg)
You win some and you lose some on the EV persuasion front.
Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt sales – which the mainstream and EV press tend to use as the barometers of EV demand in the U.S. – rose in October with the monthly sales volume for the Volt hitting a record high of 2,961.