Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The cost of Li-ion batteries has plunged some 97% since their introduction three decades ago—a rate similar to the drop in solar panel prices. Economies of scale comprises cost changes that result from increasing plant sizes and purchasing volumes. Ziegler et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

John Deutch, an emeritus Institute Professor at MIT. However, it currently costs about 50% more than gray H 2 , not including the cost of developing the pipelines and sequestration systems needed to transport and store unwanted CO 2. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, Dean of Science, and Provost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2017

In a new study, a team from the University of Central Florida and MIT has found that the US Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards is an effective policy solution that does increase the adoption of EVs, whether it is implemented alone or in conjunction with another policy such as government incentives.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The report includes a consumer pocketbook analysis, which finds that for consumers purchasing 60 mpg cars and trucks the value of the gas savings will be greater than the increased cost of the loan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

In general the passenger vehicle industry is also exceedingly cost conscious.As This value must be realizable by customers in a time frame that is relevant to their ownership of the vehicles (that is, they must realize its value while they own the car, and preferably when they are considering their vehicle purchase).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

Those objections added to the concerns environmentalists were raising about the ozone layer—a scenario seemingly justified a few years later by MIT researchers, who concluded that a future fleet of 500 supersonic airliners would deplete the ozone layer by 16 percent. Clearly, nobody would accept stone-fracturing sonic booms. Boom Supersonic.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. The purchase price probably would have been around $100 million in 1986, an amount that by 1993 would have yielded a return of $3 billion and in subsequent decades orders of magnitude more. A large software industry grew up.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

But with Moore's Law cranking along at a steady pace, there was every reason to think that the cost of computing power would come down sufficiently within a decade or so. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press. George and Marcia Lucas divorced in 1983.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

OpenAI , an important machine-learning think tank, researchers recently designed and trained a much-lauded deep-learning language system called GPT-3 at the cost of more than $4 million. The company executives dropped that attempt because they judged that the cost of training and running the system would be too high.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Even if interest in purchasing an EV is increasing, close to 70 percent of Americans are still leaning towards buying an ICE vehicles as their next purchase. In the UK, only 14 percent of drivers plan to purchase an EV as their next car. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2016

The market for pure BEVs is likely to be limited because their inherently limited driving range and long recharging times, and their high cost, make them less attractive to purchasers looking for an all-purpose vehicle. However, the flexibility and lower costs of PHEVs appear to trump this simplicity, certainly in the nearer term.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 15, 2021

The company recently executed a purchase and sales agreement on an engineering facility in Tunica , according to Yahoo! The tie-up with Singapore-based SolidEnergy Systems, which was founded by MIT grad Qichao Hu, is focused on new battery chemistry to reduce the size of the batteries while increasing an EV’s range.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It is simply the cost of doing business. "On some products, the costs, particularly in advanced technologies, are high," he said in a lengthy interview with Automotive News (free subscription required). Its been improving over time, but the power density and cost issues are still steep for what exists thus far.

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