Volvo ditching gasoline engines for electric, hybrid cars after 2019 - GoHaynesvilleShale.com2024-03-28T12:34:00Zhttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/forum/topics/volvo-ditching-gasoline-engines-for-electric-hybrid-cars-after?feed=yes&xn_auth=noJay, lol...true.
Tesla can't…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-07:2117179:Comment:36334972017-07-07T16:31:25.132ZKeith Mauck (Site Publisher)https://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/Haynesville_Shale
<p>Jay, lol...true.</p>
<p>Tesla can't sell volume yet and there is 18 month wait list. Maybe Volvo loyalists will find a way to make it work. Tesla's got to be worried.</p>
<p>Jay, lol...true.</p>
<p>Tesla can't sell volume yet and there is 18 month wait list. Maybe Volvo loyalists will find a way to make it work. Tesla's got to be worried.</p> France Plans to End Sales of…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-07:2117179:Comment:36332992017-07-07T02:02:38.069ZSkip Peel - Mineral Consultanthttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/ilandman
<p><b>France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040</b></p>
<p>By <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jack-ewing" title="More Articles by JACK EWING">JACK EWING</a> JULY 6, 2017 <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/energy-environment/index.html">Energy & Environment</a> nytimes.com…</b></p>
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<p><b>France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040</b></p>
<p>By <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jack-ewing" title="More Articles by JACK EWING">JACK EWING</a> JULY 6, 2017 <b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/energy-environment/index.html">Energy & Environment</a> nytimes.com</b></p>
<p class="story-body-text"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about France.">France</a> is joining a growing movement to force the extinction of vehicles that run on fossil fuels, saying on Thursday that it would aim to end the sale of gasoline and diesel cars by 2040.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">The target is less ambitious than ones set by countries like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/world/europe/norway-climate-oil.html">Norway</a> and <a href="https://auto.ndtv.com/news/india-aims-to-end-the-sale-of-petrol-and-diesel-cars-by-2030-1687721">India</a>. Still, coming from a major car-producing country, France’s declaration gave additional momentum to efforts to fight <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="Recent and archival news about global warming.">climate change</a> and urban smog by promoting the use of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/electric_vehicles/index.html?&inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about electric vehicles.">electric cars</a>.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">The timing of the announcement was also significant, a day after the automaker Volvo said it would <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environment/volvo-hybrid-electric-car.html">phase out the internal combustion engine</a>, and during a visit to Europe by President Trump. The announcement by Nicolas Hulot, the French environment minister, was an expression of European leaders’ determination to pursue an environmental agenda despite Mr. Trump’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html">repudiation of the Paris agreement</a> on climate change.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">“It’s a very difficult objective,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovE4CMzInh4">Mr. Hulot said Thursday</a>. “But the solutions are there.”</p>
<p class="story-body-text">The plan to phase out gasoline and diesel cars is part of a broader effort by France to limit global warming, which Mr. Hulot outlined Thursday. The country will also stop issuing new oil and gas exploration permits this year, and stop using coal to produce electricity by 2022, he said.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">Mr. Hulot’s statement was the latest sign that the century-long reign of the internal combustion engine may be slowly coming to an end.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/energy-environment/volvo-hybrid-electric-car.html?_r=0">Volvo</a> said that all of its new models beginning in 2019 would be either battery-powered cars or hybrids that combined electric motors with diesel or gasoline engines.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">The company, based in Sweden, said it will not introduce any new designs powered solely by conventional internal combustion engines — a first for a major carmaker. Mr. Hulot referred to Volvo’s announcement during his remarks in Paris on Thursday.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">There was no immediate reaction to the government’s statement from France’s two major carmakers, Renault and the PSA Group, which makes Peugeot and Citroën cars.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">Renault began selling battery-powered cars in 2011, and was among the first major carmakers to do so.</p> They don't go dead. You rech…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-07:2117179:Comment:36334022017-07-07T01:23:34.873ZSkip Peel - Mineral Consultanthttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/ilandman
<p>They don't go dead. You recharge them. Or, swap them out at a battery station. And, yes, it will be good for natural gas. </p>
<p>They don't go dead. You recharge them. Or, swap them out at a battery station. And, yes, it will be good for natural gas. </p> Well, you'll need to charge t…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-07:2117179:Comment:36334792017-07-07T00:07:54.312ZJHHhttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/JackHodges
<p>Well, you'll need to charge them somewhere using electricity generated by clean natural gas! But what to do with those pesky dead batteries.</p>
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<p>Well, you'll need to charge them somewhere using electricity generated by clean natural gas! But what to do with those pesky dead batteries.</p>
<p></p> VOLVO GIVES TESLA A SHOCK, AS…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-06:2117179:Comment:36332822017-07-06T13:50:44.707ZSkip Peel - Mineral Consultanthttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/ilandman
<p><strong>VOLVO GIVES TESLA A SHOCK, AS OTHERS PLAN ELECTRIC PUSH</strong></p>
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<p>By Neanda Salvaterra July 6, 2017 7:26 am ET</p>
<p>Volvo has…</p>
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<p>By Neanda Salvaterra July 6, 2017 7:26 am ET</p>
<p>Volvo has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coming-to-a-dealer-near-you-a-compliance-car-you-may-actually-want-1499280694" target="_blank">shaken up the energy and auto industries with its plan</a> for its new vehicles to be hybrids or electric by 2019, giving rival Tesla Inc. a big new competitor and raising new questions about future oil demand, write John D. Stoll and Tim Higgins.</p>
<p>“The Scandinavian company isn’t the only deep-pocketed rival planning to compete with the Silicon Valley pioneer. Nearly all global vehicle makers are mounting their own electric-car push, powered by ever-cheaper prices for batteries, stricter emissions rules and lucrative government incentives for customers,” the Journal reports.</p>
<p>Owned by China’s Geely Holding Group, Volvo on Wednesday presented plans to transition its entire lineup to vehicles powered either by batteries or hybrid electric-internal combustion engines by 2019.</p>
<p>The move follows announcements by other companies such as Toyota Motor Corp., Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG that have also outlined plans to venture into the electric car market – a sign that the auto industry believes the internal-combustion engine’s days are numbered.</p>
<p>Big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have increasingly bet on finding and developing natural gas, a lower-carbon fuel that is used to make electricity and that is likely to be in higher demand if electric vehicles take off.</p>
<p>Shell has said global oil demand will peak some time in the next five to 15 years, a trend driven in part by the predicted rise of electric vehicles.</p>
<p> </p> My prediction for 2021. "Vol…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-06:2117179:Comment:36335672017-07-06T01:53:27.035ZRONNYhttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/Ronny
<p>My prediction for 2021. "Volvo returns to manufacturing automobiles with conventional internal combustion engines after sales plummet."</p>
<p>My prediction for 2021. "Volvo returns to manufacturing automobiles with conventional internal combustion engines after sales plummet."</p> Quite the contrary around my…tag:gohaynesvilleshale.com,2017-07-05:2117179:Comment:36333672017-07-05T14:51:09.605ZSkip Peel - Mineral Consultanthttps://gohaynesvilleshale.com/profile/ilandman
<p>Quite the contrary around my neck of the woods. The Volvo SUV models have become somewhat of a status symbol. A friend survived a serious head-on wreck at highway speeds last year and credits her Volvo for her survival.</p>
<p>Quite the contrary around my neck of the woods. The Volvo SUV models have become somewhat of a status symbol. A friend survived a serious head-on wreck at highway speeds last year and credits her Volvo for her survival.</p>