Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

DB has lowered its advanced lithium-ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012. Slower than expected sales of hybrids everywhere in the world but Japan in 2010. Based on discussions with industry experts and several automakers, the DB Auto team has lowered its advanced lithium ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 30, 2009

I was particularly impressed with former California State Controller, Steve Westly who was fairly pulsating with energy having just gotten back from China, Japan and Western Europe where he reports that “something dramatic is happening in clean tech.&#. Clean Building Materials – everything from LED lighting to solar panels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. We will own the battery. We will always own the batteries,&# said Mr. Thesen. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It It has awarded tax credits worth about $100 million to each of four manufacturers of electric-hybrid car batteries. Inappropriate?

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Some numbers and percentages in Europe may look different from what you see elsewhere, because I’ve added light-commercial vehicle sales to numerator and denominator, to make the comparison with other regions equitable. If Norway also had an auto or EV-battery industry, no country could catch it in the charts. Yup, yup, yup.

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