Surprising Demand?
"Are big car companies underestimating the demand for electric vehicles?" asks one audience member during a Climate One program. As an automaker that strictly makes electric vehicles, Forrest Beanum (VP of Government Relations at Coda Automotive) strongly believes that there is a market for electric vehicles and that a GM study showed that 40% of American adults are interested in buying electric vehicles. Speakers: Forrest Beanum, Vice President of Government Relations, Coda Automotive Oliver Kuttner, CEO, Edison2 Bill Reinert, National Manager, Toyota Michael Robinson, VP for Environment, Energy and Safety Policy, General Motors Dan Sperling, Member, California Air Resources Board, Professor, UC Davis Recorded: May 12, 2011 http://climate-one.org http://commonwealthclub.org
About Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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