Electric vehicles are still a decade from becoming mainstream, experts agreed at the Megatrends auto conference today in Dearborn.
“Continuous improvement in gas engines will continue to push plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles further into the future,” said Michael Omotoso, senior manager, global powertrain forecast with LMC Automotive in Troy.
The forecasting firm does not see electric vehicles hitting 1 per cent of the market until 2018.
It took eight years for hybrids to hit 2 per cent of the U.S. market but the second 2 per cent only took a year, said Mike Tinskey, Ford’s director of global vehicle electrification and infrastructure.
And a recent Harris poll showed that 60 per cent of consumers in the showroom today are interested in hybrids and one in four shoppers are interested in plug-in hybrids, Tinskey said.
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