Spanish electric car target 2,000 sales – Actually sold 16
Spain’s plans to have 2,000 electric cars on the road by the end of 2010 have been dealt a blow as figures showed just 16 have been sold.
The government-backed REVE electric car and wind power project said 15 cars had been sold so far this year, in addition to one last year.
In April, the government said it would invest $775 million the production of electric cars. It aims to have 250,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in circulation by 2014.
REVE played down the poor sales.
“The figures are similar to what happened in the beginning with personal computers or mobile phones,” it said.
“The first models are expensive and with few options and initial sales were low.”
Pretty poor excuse Mr.Spokesman, plus personal computers and mobile phones sold like hot cakes when first introduced even though they were unwieldy, and at times (especially the computer) a nightmare. Your investment is in serious trouble.
The 16 models sold in Spain were made by Norwegian car maker Think.
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That is too bad. The current state of the art of electric cars depends entirely on the battery technology. As one of the earlier posts I did showed, the performance of an electric car can beat the best of the fastest sports cars.
If they can get the batteries to go for 500 miles without a charge, with a decent amount of room, and sell them for around 20k. That is when they will take off.
The recent, slight increase in auto sales were mainly due to purchases of big SUV trucks.
The American people are not ready to change their habits.
they’re not even fit for the Duracell bunny!
Hey Holte-find me an electric that sells for 5-10K and goes 150m on a charge and I’ll buy it. Shit I’ll buy you one too.
I just started looking, where do I send the bill?