Besides receiving placements at some of the system's 1,100 schools in the job-fair-like atmosphere, the teachers received housing information, opened bank accounts and obtained information for setting up telephone, gas and electric accounts.
Though the decision was attributed to the recent bankruptcy of clients like Fruit of the Loom and the acquisition of clients like Bestfoods, the agency also lost several accounts recently to other agencies; among those were the Panasonic electric shaver account and the East Coast Energy Council.
In the US, electric cars account for less than 1% of annual sales.
Altogether, hybrid and electric vehicles account for only 2% of America's new car market.
Electric vehicles account for less than 1 percent of new-vehicle sales in the United States, according to LMC Automotive, J.D. Power's automotive forecasting partner.
The personal care division of Panasonic in Secaucus, N.J., part of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, named the Kaplan Thaler Group in New York, part of the Bcom3 Group, to handle its electric shaver account, which had been handled by Warwick Baker O'Neill in New York.
The effect on global energy consumption would be enormous, as electric motors account for two thirds of all industrial energy consumption.
Despite the rapidity with which Karma has gotten up to speed – producing vehicles in a factory that was empty less than a year ago – electric vehicles account for less than 3% of all U.S. auto sales, and even industry leader Tesla has still not turned a profit.
Although nearly all countries in the world have taken active measures to mitigate the greenhouse effect, which is the primary cause of extreme climate change, the electric motor accounts for 40 50% of the total global electricity consumption, thus becoming the primary appliance requiring high-efficiency standards.
