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Blog Entries from 06/2010
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Do Quangoids Dream of Electric Cars?
(With apologies to Philip K. Dick.) In July six electric Mitsubishi i-MiEVs will arrive in the North East for trials run by Cenex's Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Programme at a leasing cost of £137,450 over four years, plus (we guess) around £6.5m for installing 1,300 charging points. The latter approximate figure is included in the last government's 'Plugged in Places' programme, channelled via the regional development agency One North East. In London, 20 Toyota Prius plug-in hybrids on lease will arrive on the fleets of various public bodies in London, courtesy of Toyota and EDF Energy. Similar trials are under way in the Midlands, funded by the Technology Strategy Board and Advantage West Midlands. Correction: funded by all of us.
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Charting The Decline in SMR Work
Download and read our latest aftersales article, published in the June 2010 issue of Auto Retail Networks' Bulletin.
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Black and Blue in the Bayou
Dr Peter Wells of Cardiff Business School's Centre for Automotive Industry Research (co-author of Car Futures - Rethinking the automotive industry beyond the American model”, available from Trend Tracker), speculated recently in Automotiveworld.com's Environment Weekly that BP's fiasco could prove a tipping point in the evolution of a market for electric vehicles. Market and public sentiment can turn bad on a dime, and BP's bonds have dropped to junk status, although with oil at $75 a barrel, BP is still gushing cash flow and can easily afford the $billion+ Gulf clean-up cost, and pay a dividend to its US shareholders.