Word: ev
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...Prime Minister's trip to the U.S. had originally been planned as a private visit to New York, to take part in a centennial dinner honoring the late Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky, the fiery Zionist who was Begin's mentor. But after the Egyptian-Israeli negotiations on Palestinian autonomy ground to a halt in midsummer, Carter invited Begin for a side trip to Washington to try to get the talks back on track. At the time, the Administration hoped to set up some time in January a trilateral summit involving Carter, Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
...bailout bill passed by Congress last December. The measure, sponsored by Idaho Republican Senator James A. McClure, allows carmakers to include electrics in meeting their federally mandated 1985 corporate average fuel-efficiency rating of 27.5 rn.p.g. Since the electrics use no gasoline, Detroit, to the extent its output includes EVs, will be able to turn out larger, less efficient-and thus more profitable-gasoline-powered cars. That was a clever political end run, yet no one is complaining. Says Paul Brown, who heads the EV program at DOE: "It was just good, practical politics...
Meanwhile, like electrons to a cathode, a raft of smaller companies and entrepreneurs are being attracted to the EV market. Sir Jon Samuel, a transplanted Briton, has set up Electric Auto Corp. in Troy, Mich., to produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers of $16,000 each. The car runs on fast-charge, lead-acid batteries, but has a small rotary gasoline engine to boost power for passing and to rescue drivers from battery failure. Jet Industries of Austin, Texas, takes Ford, Chrysler and Fuji cars and trucks from the factory, installs lead...
Though it will require a major-some would say monumental-change in Americans' attitudes about their automobiles, Judelson foresees a vast potential market for EVs, especially as second, essentially commuting, cars. By the turn of the century, Judelson projects electric-car production of 6.6 million vehicles a year, about 40% of the total. If so, then EVs would regain the prominence they had at the turn of the century, when nearly 40% of all cars were electric. Detroit's experienced carmakers, on the other hand, obviously do not think the market is that big, but Detroit has been...