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Re: They may not have the Saab brand name yet
Posted by Tim (more from Tim) on Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:47:49
In Reply to: Re: They may not have the Saab brand name yet, Snowmobile , Wed, 13 Jun 2012 06:28:14

Selling EV to China and India might just work. Their major cities are so crowded that most of car ownership is parking and being stuck in traffic anyway. Some cities even have regulations that only odd number plated cars and even number plated cars to enter the city on alternate days due to pollution control. If they make a regulatory exception for EV's, the glorified golf carts may just be what work there, like in typical pedestrian-friendly tourist cities here. Long distance road trips are not popular in those countries because air and train tickets are cheap (high utilization ratio) while gasoline is expensive (gasoline distribution networks being government monopolies there).

After they work out a battery replacement scheme (instead of charging, just pop in an exchange battery, like we do with propane tanks for the grill) over there, EV might have some market here as secondary cars for suburban families when the exchange takes 5min or less and can go for 100 miles (relatively light battery in order to avoid injury and reduce the cost of the exchange mechanism).

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