Two events this week signalled a step change in the pace at which electric vehicles are taking to the road. Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s first mass-market Model 3 car will start rolling off production lines tomorrow, ready for launch at July’s end. That was followed by Volvo’s pledge on Tuesday that the Swedish carmaker, owned by China’s Geely, will cease manufacturing combustion engine-only vehicles altogether by 2019. Thenceforth, every Volvo model will be powered solely by batteries or by a battery/petrol hybrid.
本周發生的兩件事,標志著電動汽車前進步伐中的一次巨變。埃隆?馬斯克(Elon Musk)宣布,特斯拉(Tesla)首款大眾市場車型Model 3將于周五開始源源不斷地走下生產線,準備7月底上市。隨后沃爾沃(Volvo)于周二承諾,這家由中國吉利(Geely)所有的瑞典汽車制造商將于2019年徹底停止生產純燃油車。從那以后,沃爾沃每一款車型都將是純電動或油電混動。