A survey performed by Britain’s best known driving school revealed that roughly 30 percent of students believe they are better drivers than their parents, due a higher degree of care and the lack of certain bad driving habits displayed by their elders.
For most of the year Elon Musk has claimed Tesla would start to be "cash flow positive" in December 2012, and now he is claiming the company has reached that milestone.
Because of other manufacturing delays, the 40- and 60- kilowatt-hour versions of the Tesla Model S will be delayed by 2 months, but in the grand scheme the company still intends to reach a 20,000 car/year manufacturing rate for 2013.
All good things must come to an end and for the folks at General Motors, November 2012 brought about an end to the 9 month long beating that the Chevrolet Volt has handed the Nissan Leaf in the battle of the mainstream electric vehicles – although the electric Chevy still has a massive lead in overall 2012 sales.
Using components from GM, A123 Systems and UQM, Efficient Drivetrains new system is meant to be easily adaptable to existing vehicle designs, provide very high efficiency, at a lower cost to other drive train competitors.
Few companies have made further progress in not only complying with higher CAFE requirements, but also in reducing the energy used to manufacture vehicles, greenhouse emissions from facilities and even the waste materials produced in the process as Toyota in North America.
