Jaguar and Lincoln dealership now sells EV (Made in China) in California

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From Intuit small business blog

Ramon Alvarez, through Alvarez Electric started selling EV (electric vehicles ) in California.  The vehicles are from China manufactured by Luzhou Wuling.  They sell Eco Truck, Eco Van, and Eco Commuter and price range from $10,000 to 18,000.  (There is another Alvarez in PHL who sells cars and buses;  and even runs bus company)

Alvarez runs the Jaguar and Lincoln dealership in California and changing conditions (competition, green innovation/consciousness, high gas prices) saw their sales drop from l00 units to only 60 a month.   While his employees responded for call to work harder, he had to innovate to arrest the declining sales. He has been selling cars for the last 30 years. (In California, you need car.) He has to develop new strategies to serve the changing car market.

It took him three years to prepare:   line up financing, establish the infrastructure, meet the stringent regulations.  Wuling, their supplier, has been in business for 52 years and has quite an experience in manufacturing, efficient, low speed EVs

Survey shows that 57% of the new car buyer will consider buying an electric vehicle and that represents a growing big opportunity for Alvarez Electric/electric vehicles

Alvarez plans to open new outlets in Glendale and Riverside.

Electric Motorcyle Racing

"Innovation is creating value from existing resources." Innovation is the tool of entrepreneurship.

Electric cars, electric airplanes, and electric motorcyles, electric car racing, and now electric motorcyle racing.  These are great  initiatives to save on fossil fuels, stop global warming, and thus save the planet.

EV Racing


Until they actually saw the first run at Bandimere Speedway, they did not fully believe “Zero to 60 mph in less than one second.” The film crew was not prepared for the acceleration on the launch. After the first run, they said, “It was on the starting line…and then it was just GONE!”
The camera crew attached little mini-cams all over the KillaCycle (and the ElectroCat ). They got fantastic action footage. Since the KillaCycle is an all-out racing machine, we did not concern ourselves with AC magnetic shielding or trying to minimize stray fields like you would do on a street EV. (Like you would not add a muffler to a racing ICE machine.) Thus, there were some very weird distortions in some of the on-board video footage. Kind of like science fiction force-field looking effects. I hope they show these “force field” clips.
You can see more photos in the photo album here.
It was a great pleasure meeting and working with the Nova team.



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