Ener1 has half-dozen electric vehicle, PHEV announcements up its sleeve
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Ener1 has a long-standing partnership with Think and, earlier this year, announced it would work with Nissan on plug-in vehicles. During a conference call to discuss third quarter earnings, Charles Gassenheimer, Ener1's chairman and chief executive officer, said that U.S. automakers are "finally" starting to get into the plug-in spirit. Hinting that big things are in store for his company, Gassenheimer said, "I think the next five or six announcements we're going to make are all on the PHEV, EV side." This isn't a total surprise – this is a company that builds plug-in vehicle batteries, after all – but to know that a half-dozen deals (or parts of deals) are in the works is exciting. Gassenheimer added:
On the HEV side we are still seeing some demand but what's more interesting is that what we're seeing is that on the customer traction side most auto manufacturers are jumping straight to PHEV, EV and really jumping over HEV. And so we're pretty excited about that. And, of course, we'll continue to update you on the programs we've been working on, many of which we already have actually packed working in vehicles today.
[Source: SeekingAlpha]
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wincros 11:08AM (11/10/2009)
Ah, the old announcement about a future announcement ploy. Trouble is that it really says you have nothing to say, but you want some attention.
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Nick From Montreal 11:22AM (11/10/2009)
Ener1 is a public company -- they have to say something to their investor. Few CEOs can get away saying nothing like Steve Jobs does.
At least, they're not involved with vaporware "ultra-capacitors-from-Mars" like other companies in te EV space.
why not the LS2LS7? 11:14AM (11/10/2009)
By PHEV he means EREV? I can't imagine customers are clamoring to pay a $1500 more to just use a little less gas for the first 8 miles of a trip.
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skierpage 6:27PM (11/10/2009)
Why not? People spend $6000 on hawt rimz and tires, $2000 on Bluetooth satnav packages, etc. Nobody does the economic payback analysis for those features because there is none, yet when it comes to novel powertrains, suddenly the "It'll take 17 years to pay for itself" pointless lectures appear. $1500 extra for a car that doesn't use any gas for short trips is a steal.
Every hybrid car should have a plug-in option. Even if it only gets you two miles, it's still the cheapest way to travel those miles; it drives down the cost of the components for longer-range PHEVs/RE-EVs/BEVs; it gets people used to plugging in and skipping the gas station. I think the main reason current hybrids don't plug in is Toyota was terrified of range anxiety, thus "It's partly electric-powered, but it never runs down, in fact you CAN'T plug it in."
gorr 11:51AM (11/10/2009)
Im only interrested marginaly a little bit in serial plug-in small car with small inboard gasoline or diesel serial electric generator. But i won't buy anything before buying a home windmill, solar panel or anerobic garbage digester to refuel these new gray( green ) overpriced, low tech, limp , problematic cars. If nobody start selling adapted, efficient home machinery to refuel car at home, then the market for these car will stay like it is today, i mean a dead, inexistant theoric market .
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Genuine Diva 9:39AM (11/11/2009)
Very nice if I never leave my community, but seeing how things are quite spread-out I would much appreciate something larger, and cooler looking quite frankly.
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Genuine Diva 9:39AM (11/11/2009)
Very nice if I never leave my community, but seeing how things are quite spread-out I would much appreciate something larger, and cooler looking quite frankly.
I just found this link on Google news:
http://shelly724.blogspot.com/2009/11/goss132-images-leaked.html
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