I see very few postings about advancements in battery technology. Has that gone to a trickle, too? Or are you mostly focusing on vehicles, now, for your posts?
Peri -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brucedp5 Sent: 04 August, 2013 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] Going through the motions ... [This is a post on the status of the newswires that I find, and my opinions thrown in based on my long history of following the newswires] Lately, new newswire items come in starting at the end of Tuesday, and dwindle away by Friday. Oh, there are the odd/few copy-cat/duplicates that come in-between, but they say basically the same thing as the original news items. You have to understand a bit of how the media is-being-played/works, especially with U.S. media outlets. You submit your copy, the media writes something, and out it goes. So, what we (the public) are seeing is really what the automakers want us to see. So, why did automakers continue to have newswire pieces produced if they have all but slowed to a crawl/stopped producing EVs? Its like they are going through the motions to look good to the state's they want to sell ice to. Automakers really only care about achieving their mandate quota in their more profitable regions: California, and Oregon (though really the majority of the EV market is all of the west coast). If you think about it from their 'I do not want to make EVs' view, what they are doing (only selling/leasing to the mandate quota, and then throttling back on their efforts), makes some business sense. But that method sucks/bites for the consumer. So what we (the public) do about? Continue to get on the waiting lists, and also tell our state's Air Resources Board (ARB) that you are on a waiting list. You see the automakers are catering their actions to ARB's. They need their blessing to sell ice in those states. The ARB's need to know what the public is going through, as well as their opinions. Meanwhile, from what I can see (from sieving through all these newswires on a continuous daily basis), is a slowing trend. We have the aforementioned gap over the weekend, and what is pumped out during the week is 'easy copy' (the same old thing). We have not seen any new Production EVs. other than the extremely long announcement period and then debut of the BMW i3 which Europe will have to wait to get, and the U.S. & Canada have an even longer wait for ... ? What was all that i3 hoopla about anyway ? A $40k EV that has a third more range than a Leaf, but has no real L3 charging (there are nil public Combo EVSE installed as of yet). BMW is missing the opportunity to sell this EV on the west coast where there is the aforementioned EV availability drought. If they wait too long, GM's Spark EV will take up the slack. Or is that another reason why automakers are throttling back? (leaving it wide open for GM). Newswire posting status: So, I limit to only posting two newswires each day to the evdl members, but as it states in the trailer of those two, the other items will be available on the evdl nabble archive to read. This method satisfies those that do not want all my newswires in their intrays, and it also makes them available to read (its a compromise). Since it is slow on the weekends, that allows me to catch up, and post the other items I am also making an effort to use the most current and or interesting items as the ones that I post to the evdl members (on brucedp5), and trying to keep the other items posted from getting too old/stale). I prefer to post DIY and conversion items on the weekends to offset the Production EV newswires on the weekdays (it is a compromise I hope balances out what is being made available to read). But available DIY and conversion news items have also slowed down too. There are still the odd pih or fcv item that sneaks in my searches because the media is still calling anything non-ice an Electric Vehicle or Car. The media if going to have to stop resisting change and get with the program of change in the public's transportation options. This includes cng as I am seeing more of them as well. I predict in the future we will see more combination energy sources in vehicles as well (a bi-fuel plugin hybrid. Oh, what a headache for the media ... ). But do know, that some media outlets that produce original news items, wait until their subscriber have read them, before releasing them to the newswires. This causes a delay before you could see them. That also means, I have to be diligent in the extra effort to go back far enough in time on my searches to find these. Some of these give a good insight into the going pains of the incorporation of plugins into our society. That is something that is also important, besides what new shiny hardware is now available. Within the last two weeks, iMiev and Fiat 500e newsitems have slowed to a trickle. I still post those Production EV newswires even though for many on the west coast, those EVs are not available. I do this because of the read-hits I am seeing on the archive.(its an indicator that some people still want to read them). But the situation has changed from promoting EVs, to posing newswires on EVs that many can not get (rather frustrating, eh?). I will end this with a 'Thank You' to all of those that shoot me a heads-up email of an item they have found. If I haven't really seen it, I like to add a hat-tip-to or ht2 <user handle/initials> to give them a little acknowledgement (this is more for them, for their efforts, as I also try to keep it on the down-low encase they wanted anonymity). {brucedp.150m.com} ... http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+through+the+motions go through the motions -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Going-through-t he-motions-tp4664580.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
