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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Drivers who are renting cars are choosing not to try electric cars. While the industry has added many electric vehicles to rental fleets, the belief is that range anxiety is limiting demand.

While short range may be an issue for electric vehicles, loan ranges appear to be increasing for many buyers, which might be a bad thing for the economy and auto sales.

GM is experimenting with online sales, but dealers are wary of it hurting their sales.

These rarely work

Some cars are zipping off of lots, while others languish. Here is a list of 10 vehicles that are sitting for a long time on dealer lots.

Toyota hopes it's new systems will bring nearly autonomous vehicles to the market much sooner than most other auto makers plan.

There are still some car technologies that aren't really worthwhile. Here is another list.

Finally, Alfred Morris got his car back and it's really better than new.

This episode of the podcast sparks discussion about:

Tesla's strong earnings, helped in part by t-shirt sales.

You don't see as many Volt t-shirts, so GM is looking to cut the price of the plug-in electric by as much as $10,000.

Tesla jacket

That might make the proposed $100 electric-car tax in New Jersey more palatable.

Nissan is rejiggering its pricing because people aren't finding their cars when shopping online.

There is a group of vehicles that are in demand among people who don't have much money.

And here is a group of cars that probably won't be around on new-car dealer lots next year.

It's holiday travel time and most folks heading out for Labor Day will be driving. There will be more people traveling and they will be paying more for gasoli ne thanks to a hurricane that pushed up prices by 5 cents overnight.

The Obama administration finalized its new Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules for 2017-2025 which pushes the numbers to 54.5 miles per gallon. The Republicans are against the new rules, but the reasons why are weak.

While CAFE may not actually drive demand for more fuel efficient cars, GM is learning that the Volt isn't for everyone.

That's ok, because people are seeing the values of their cars remain strong. Which may be helping people pay their car loans. Delinquency rates are at all-time lows.

Finally, we look at the cities which have the best and worst drivers and one of the new camera programs that could improve things for the city with the most accident prone folks.