Japanese automakers Toyota and Nissan have always done things a little differently.
But when it comes to company strategies for meeting future transportation needs, each firm’s approach couldn’t be more different.
Nissan is resolute on its decision to go electric. Toyota, on the other hand, believes hybrid cars and fuel cells are the way forward. And neither, according to Automotive News, is convinced by the strategy of the other.
Hybrid AND electric, for now
Notably, both manufacturers currently have hybrid and battery-electric models somewhere in their lineup.
Faciliter l'intégration des énergies renouvelables sur le réseau et mieux gérer les pointes de consommation électrique en effectuant du report de charge : voici les deux bénéfices majeurs soulignés par le département de l'énergie américain justifiant l'intégration accélérée de technologies de stockage distribué sur le réseau électrique national [1]. La Californie, le Texas ou l'état de Washington se sont rapidement fait l'écho des autorités fédérales en proposant des cadres locaux de développement du stockage distribué.
Si la voiture électrique (EV : Electric Vehicle) n'a pas su s'imposer en 2000 avec EV1, 2015 sera peut-être son année. Les EVs présentent de nombreux avantages et des politiques de soutien sont en place aux Etats-Unis. Toutefois, le prix croissant de l'énergie et la question du financement des infrastructures pourraient les fragiliser.
Several news reports over the weekend noted that Tesla’s contract to supply Toyota with electric powertrains for its RAV4 EV crossover would end next year.
In the words of Tesla’s latest quarterly report, cited by Bloomberg in a Saturday news story, “Toyota is expected to end the current RAV4 EV model this year.”
ver secretly dreamed of owning a car like Kitt, David Hasselhoff’s awesome sidekick on wheels from the cult 80s TV series Knight Rider? Well, Premium electric car manufacturer Tesla is planning to put the first set of driverless cars on the road a mere decade from now, reportedly in collaboration with Israel’s collision avoidance technology Mobileye.
Tesla Motors, founded in 2003 by South African-born Canadian-American business magnate Elon Musk, designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and vehicle components. Musk’s other ventures include the universal payment system PayPal and space transport company SpaceX.
Many among the Detroit auto media were skeptical of Tesla Motors for years, correctly noting just how hard it is to start a car company and build a genuinely appealing product–electric car or not.
But as Tesla continues to sell Model S electric luxury sedans, expanding into Europe and China as well as North America, some of those skeptics seem to be coming around.
Most recently, John McElroy, a strong proponent of natural-gas vehicles, suggests that Tesla is not in fact only a car company, but an energy-storage enterprise.
With almost $1 billion in funding and ambitions to replace petroleum-based cars with a network of cheap electrics, Shai Agassi’s Better Place was remarkable even by the standards of world-changing startups. So was its epic failure. A 21st-century cautionary tale.
"So this is the car." I'm standing outside a shopping mall somewhere in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Guy Pross shows me his ride.
The world's largest lithium-ion battery factory—a 10-million-square-foot so-called Gigafactory planned by Tesla Motors for 2017—will eventually produce more battery power each year than was produced globally in 2013.
Nissan and its French partner Renault could be on track for selling 1.5 million electric vehicles before 2020, according to the company’s latest estimates.
The two companies have currently sold around a tenth of that number since each firm released its first electric cars a few years back.
But as the Wall Street Journal reports, increasing pressure to meet tougher emissions standards could work in Renault-Nissan’s favor.
Panasonic pourrait investir à hauteur de cent milliards de yens (environ un milliard de dollars) dans une usine de batteries de Tesla.
Tesla, le constructeur américain de voiture haut de gamme, a contacté d'autres fabricants de matériaux japonais dans l'espoir de créer des partenariats afin de réduire le coût des batteries lithium-ion utilisées pour les véhicules électriques. En effet, ce coût représente une part importante du prix d'un véhicule électrique et le réduire permettrait à ces véhicules une meilleure percée sur le marché.
