"The likelihood that 150, 160 markets in a very short period of time—and one decade is a very short period of time—will converge fully into one drivetrain is highly unlikely." - BMW AG CEO Oliver Zipse
Spoken like a true dinosaur.
Spoken like a true dinosaur.
People who are buying EVs right now are classic early adopters: Western, middle to upper class, willing to overlook inadequate charging infrastructure and good but not great range.
To get the other 90% to move is going to require governments spending billions in infrastructure. Which is challenging when most are running large deficits and at every turn are up against a powerful coalition of oil and gas interests. Not to mention the myriad of logistical and technical challenges eg. can grids support EVs.
Meanwhile, cities in China have electrified their multi hundred thousand strong bus fleets and have built the infrastructure to cope.
Sadly we in the West have just lost that hunger for big projects.
I’m more interested in how you bring EVs to the edge cases of society eg. rural areas of Indonesia, sparse land masses like Australia/Africa and the developing world. Because that’s hard and constantly overlooked in people’s timeframes.
I bet every city has 5 buses they've painted green with "ELECTRIC!!!!" on them, to show they're doing something. But nothing of substance.
Additionally, over the past year, availability of FTTH with symmetric gigabit connections was increased from below 1% to 53% of the state, with the goal to reach >98% by the end of the year. Over 38% of the state already have switched ISPs accordingly. This is also necessary to get >98% LTE coverage by area.
Big infrastructure projects are still possible :)
Yeaaa, but:
"China is both the largest manufacturer and buyer of electric vehicles in the world, accounting for more than half of all electric cars made and sold in the world in 2018. China also makes 99% of the world's electric buses"[1]
Technically China is west of the United States =)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_industry_in_C...