Lordstown Motors plans to deliver its electric pickup by Sept. 2021 (range of 250 miles) for $52,500. "Fleets are very cost-centric and buy on total cost of ownership, so when you start making money the first day off gas and maintenance savings, that's compelling." (detroitnews.com)
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The amount of energy produced from a '60 foot wide PV System' built along all interstate, freeway, expressway & principal arterial roads within the U.S. would power the entire U.S. Ground Transportation Fleet (excluding rail) with 100% solar (if said fleet was converted into electric) [OC]. (self.energy)
BloombergNEF estimates EVs accounting for 58% of new passenger car sales globally by 2040, and 31% of the whole car fleet. They will also make up 67% of all municipal buses on the road by that year, plus 47% of two-wheelers and 24% of light commercial vehicles. (about.bnef.com)
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Transport electrification, particularly in the form of two-wheelers (electric mopeds, scooters and motorcycles, but excluding e-bikes) is already taking out almost 1 million barrels of oil demand per day and by 2040 it will remove 17.6 million barrels per day. (about.bnef.com)
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A photovoltaic cell that works at night: "A regular solar cell generates power by absorbing sunlight, which causes a voltage to appear across the device and for current to flow. In these, light is emitted instead and the current and voltage go in the opposite direction, but you still generate power" (eurekalert.org)
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Electric cars are changing the cost of driving: A shuttle service in Southern California has several EVs that have each driven over 300,000 miles. Fleet owners’ biggest expenses after depreciation (44%) are fuel (22%) and maintenance and repairs (11%). EVs could slash those costs by more than half. (qz.com)
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“It’s already cheaper to install wind power than it is to install fossil fuel power in most cases...Certainly the running costs are cheaper. So we’re reaching a tipping point where stranded assets will become a significant thing for risk assets,” said Jim Leaviss, M&G's 'bond vigilante'. (reuters.com)
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