Although they can work well in limited circumstances, they do not appeal to the broad car-buying market.
After visiting the city's best spirits shop, Kratochvilovci, to track down a bottle of Hammer Head whiskey — the bizarre, pre-Velvet Revolution Czech single malt released a couple of years ago to rave reviews — you can step out into the broad, car-free street with impunity and admire the grand facades on either side.
Tesla's $15 billion-plus market cap demonstrates that the stock market is betting on Tesla's potential to take a significant share of the broader car market, not just luxury cars.
The company said it injected $1 billion to "support its business in providing Didi drivers and the broader car-owner community with convenient, flexible, economical, and reliable one-stop auto services".
Instead of focusing on a truly broad appeal car like the Volt, they've promised to have a commercial-use electric van on the road by 2010 and a small all-electric car on the road by 2011.
In Denmark, Dong Energy is deploying smart power grids -- and on the island of Bornholm, with 40,000 inhabitants, it is building a new plug-in network to understand the smart-grid implications of broad electric car adoption.
"They've got a lot going for them: a broad compact-car lineup, attractive prices for the quality they offer and clever marketing".
Despite its willingness to peddle the Pacifica, DaimlerChrysler said it believed that the broader American car market would be less roiled by rebates and other sales promotions toward the end of 2003.
In practice, although this may occur for broad categories (cars, say), it is rare for specifically defined goods (Rolls-Royces, say).The wide scope of this paper suggests that it will attract more criticism, partly because it has the potential to affect so many policy debates around the world.
"The point of it is a lot broader than cars.
Anyone who loves and buys fast and powerful cars knows the frustration -- when the road is straight and broad and the car hums with energy, why stop it from doing what it was engineered for?
