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"Anderman is an odd duck. He's very involved in the industry, doing studies and running conferences, yet he regularly comes up with these off-the-wall forecasts. His EV/PHEV battery projections are dwarfed by the Nissan/NEC JV alone, and there are half a dozen others with similar plans (A123, Toyota/PEVE, Mitsubishi/Yuasa, LG Chem, BYD, Saft/JCI).

Similarly, Anderman forecasts 200 PHEV-40s in 2012 and 1000 in 2015. Meanwhile GM alone says they'll ship 10,000 Volts/year starting in 2010 and quickly ramp to 60-100,000/year. Toyota will do something less lame than the current "double-battery" PHEV-7 experiments and there's BYD and others. Anderman's numbers are just bizarre and they make it hard to take anything he says seriously."

"Dr. Anderman appears to be counseling ICE manufacturers that they have little to worry from all electric vehicles.
Menahem Anderman appears to be to electric vehicles what Daniel Yergin is to oil: a credentialed expert acting as a paid mouthpiece for certain interests who want justification for continuing Business As Usual.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see them getting money from the same people."

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