Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Electric cars: which projects will survive?

The electric car is there, but you can not see: that is, there is the dining rooms, is palpable in European capitals where the houses rely on authorities or selected customers in small numbers, but the market is struggling to take off, or at least the numbers are not encouraging. For the moment, but Peugeot is taking steps to bring the ION hired for a monthly cost less than 500 € and Smart who has selected a small group of customers who entrust the electric version for about 400 euro per month, no concrete proposals there are none.

Moreover, the costs of purchase for these cars at the time would be unrealistic when compared with those of conventional cars. They know something in America where, in the first three months of 2011, 1210 Chevrolet Volt have been sold and only 452 Nissan Leaf. Then there are the niche as the electric Tesla, prized as status symbols by Hollywood stars, but prohibitively expensive for ordinary mortals.

At the present state of things, therefore, electric cars are often a flag that no technological manufacturer can escape: the striking example of the models are coming for the next few years, but also a technological chimera still difficult to achieve. It is no coincidence that the only constructors born as the electric Tesla have suffered huge losses for the development of their cars, while the larger houses consider the electric as an investment for the future.

Despite everything, however, there are many models that are preparing to debut on the markets in the coming years, the Audi would launch the e-truncated version of the R8 in 2012, BMW plans to produce the I3 in 2013, Fiat will launch the 500 electric Next year, Ford plans to build the C-Max Electric in 2013, but also Honda, Mazda, Chevrolet and Cadillac, to name a few, are willing to launch new proposed electric propulsion.

Which of these cars will become a concrete proposal? What will fall into decay? We just have to wait for market developments to find out.

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