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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion by 2032.

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Tesla Model Y also leads the German EV market

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Only the MG4 put in a personal best performance, with 1,389 units delivered, near to twice its previous high (February). The Smart “#1”, having first delivered in noticeable volume in December, had personal-best deliveries of 313 units in March. There were a few newcomer BEV models visible further down the sales charts.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. You really have to package together something that allows you.to Earlier post.).

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. China is keen to improve air and water quality and build ‘national champions’ in industry. A wave of green globalization allows all countries to share in the benefits of decarbonization.

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Demand Charges: The Secret Cost to EV Charging

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The next highest daily consumption goes to the water heater in a four-person household, which uses about 10 kilowatts a day. This is not cheap. So, How Does All This Hide Costs? As a result, the increase in peak demand during that day shoots up from 50 kilowatts for a level 1, to 1,000 for a level 3.

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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

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Lower maintenance and fuel costs, however, will mean a two-year payback. Though $155,000 seems awfully cheap for lithium-ion battery packs. Proterra , a competing company that sells a completely electric bus , says it can undercut the total cost of ownership of a regular bus by around $310,000 over a twelve-year period.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

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Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive. Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.