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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

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Interestingly, a 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study predicted that as EVs became more widespread, battery prices would climb because the demand for lithium and other battery metals would rise sharply. Volvo CEO Jim Rowan , disagrees with both of them, however, seeing ICE-EV price parity coming by 2025-2026.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Establishing dealer network. They will buy a car and rent or lease the battery and the cost of leasing the battery will be the same as, or less than, the cost theyre paying today for petrol. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012. Marketwatch ).

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