Electric vehicle (EV) performance has been improving so quickly and prices have been falling so fast that the internal combustion engine (ICE) wouldn’t be able to compete for much longer. You will soon be able to get Porsche performance for Buick prices and when you get that, neither Porsche nor Buick are able to compete. — Tony Seba
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We talk a lot here about tipping points. Often this is in the negative sense when it comes to climate change. But when it comes to electrical vehicles, which is one of the key renewable energy technologies that has the capacity to mitigate climate harms, it appears that the world is rapidly approaching a much more positive kind of economic tipping point.
Steadily, markets are opening up to a new wave of far more capable electric vehicles. And this is good news — because the combination of wind + solar +…
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That is good as long as we are cutting down on energy consumption rather than replacing one energy source for another. The big question is if electric cars are to be charged, where is the electricity is coming from?
Eventually and hopefully solar will supply the electricity but it will have to be state driven for the next 4 years, because trump and the repubs are are all in for fossil fuels.