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Connected Kerb aims to install 190,000 public on-street EV chargers across the UK by 2030

2021-11-08 / Robert Vinet

The £1.9 billion investment will provide access to EV charging for the tens of millions of UK drivers who do not have access to off-street parking.

EV ownership in the UK is surging. Pure EV sales are already up by 88% year-to-date compared to 2020 and one in four UK households intend to purchase an EV in the next five years, as the 2030 ban on new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles approaches. Meanwhile, there are currently only around 1,000 public-access on-street chargers outside of London and just one for every 52 EVs on UK roads. As a result, those without off-street parking or a dedicated parking space with domestic power supply – accounting for 62% of drivers – are being left behind in the EV transition, making up as few as 9% of EV drivers today.

Connected Kerb has already secured new partnerships for 10,000 public on-street EV chargers across the United Kingdom in 2021, the majority of which will be deployed across West Sussex and Kent. Deals for a further 30,000 chargers are expected conclude next year, as part of the company’s ambition to “level up” charging across the UK.

70.1% of all new car registrations in Norway in October were pure Electric Vehicles

2021-11-05 / Robert Vinet

VW ID.4 GTX

In Norway, 8,116 new EVs were registered in October 2921, giving pure electric cars a 70.1 percent share of all new registrations for the month. This represents an increase of 3.1 percent, when compared to the 7,873 BEV registrations in October 2020.

The Volkswagen ID.4, with 913 registrations, was the model with the most new registrations in October.

88,674 new BEVs have been registered so far this year, according to the Norwegian Road Information Agency (OFV). This represents a market share of 63.1 percent from the beginning of January to the end of October. These numbers represent purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and not hybrid vehicles.

Insufficient power grid doomed the first generation of electric cars

2021-10-28 / Robert Vinet

With a more robust infrastructure, internal combustion engine (ICE) cars might have been a minority today.

The Economist »

“All is rotary, beautifully perfect and wonderfully efficient,” said one evangelist for electric vehicles (evs). “There is not that almost terrifying uncertain throb and whirr of the powerful combustion engine…no dangerous and evil smelling gasoline and no noise. Perfect freedom from vibration assures both comfort and peace of mind.” Translated into Twitter-ese, such views would not sound out of place from Elon Musk. But their author was Thomas Edison, pioneer of the light bulb, in 1903.

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The authors consider various causes of petrol’s triumph in 1900-10. Cost is unlikely, since until 1910 petrol-powered cars and evs of the same model type were similarly priced. As for range, evs managed a respectable 90 miles (145km) by the 1910s. Had this been evs’ principal handicap, battery-swapping stations, which replaced depleted batteries with charged ones in seconds, could have become as common as petrol stations did.

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The study then used a statistical model to predict how automotive history might have differed if the power grid had developed faster. It finds that if the amount of electricity America produced by 1922 had been available in 1902, 71% of car models in 1920 would have been evs (though long-distance motorists would still have chosen petrol cars). Accounting for the extra power generation such a fleet would need, this would have cut America’s carbon-dioxide emissions from cars in 1920 by 44%.

Drivers are interested in EVs. Dealers don’t know how to sell them.

2021-10-28 / Robert Vinet

Bloomberg »

“The big challenge to selling EVs is training” car dealers, Pieter Nota confided over dinner one night during the Munich Auto Show.

Nota, the board member of management at BMW AG, was talking about the company’s network of 348 distributors across the United States. He was speaking with a small group of journalists who had joined him for a Bavarian repast in Munich to celebrate BMW’s launch of its first-ever electric SUV and electric sedan.

Nota declined to say how many of the company’s new EVs it hopes to sell in their first year. But the power and resources behind them are staggering. BMW will offer a fully electrified vehicle in nearly every one of its segments by 2023, he said. By 2024, BMW will have stopped making internal combustion engines at its main manufacturing plant in Munich. By 2025, it will have invested more than $32 billion in EV research and development.

“We are hitting the market exactly when the time is right,” Nota said. “When demand is rising and when charging is making strong progress.”

Almost 1 in 20 new motor vehicle registrations in Canada were zero-emission vehicles in Q2 2021

2021-10-26 / Robert Vinet

2021 Hyundai KONA electric

From April to June 2021, Canadians registered 486,592 new motor vehicles, 180,681 (+59.1%) more than in the same quarter in 2020 when public health measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 resulted in the closure of dealerships.

Registrations were up for all vehicle types in the second quarter of 2021, compared with the same quarter in 2020. Multi-purpose vehicles (+87.4%) saw the largest increase, followed by passenger cars (+52.8%), vans (+32.8%) and pickup trucks (+17.4%). Multi-purpose vehicles accounted for over half (55.8%) of all new motor vehicles registered in the second quarter, up from 47.4% during the same quarter a year earlier.

Registrations of all fuel types rose in the second quarter, but the increases were less pronounced for vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE). Over four times as many new hybrid electric vehicles (+309.7%) were registered in the second quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier. More than twice as many new battery-electric vehicles (BEV) (+165.6%) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) (+151.7%) were registered in the second quarter. More new gasoline (+50.1%) and diesel (+55.9%) vehicles were also registered in the second quarter.

EV’s are estimated to make up 34% of light-duty vehicle fleets in OECD countries by 2050

2021-10-26 / Robert Vinet

In their International Energy Outlook 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates the global light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet contained 1.31 billion vehicles in 2020. And they are projecting this fleet will grow to 2.21 billion vehicles by 2050.

The EIA estimates electric LDVs will grow from 0.7% of the global LDV fleet in 2020 to 31% in 2050, reaching 672 million electric vehicles.

Significant growth in EV sales and shares of sales through the projection period results in the global conventional gasoline and diesel LDV fleet peaking in 2038. The EIA project that an increase in economic activity, population, and private mobility will result in more global LDVs through 2050.

The 2020 global LDV fleet primarily consists of conventional gasoline and diesel internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, but sales of EVs are projected to grow due to recent technology and policy developments. In our International Energy Outlook 2021, EVs include both full battery, all-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that are primarily powered by liquid fuels when batteries are nearly depleted.

The EIA project EV fleet shares will reach 34% in OECD countries and 28% in non-OECD countries by 2050. Although the conventional LDV fleet peaks in 2023 for OECD countries, faster growth in the non-OECD fleet results in nearly two-thirds of light-duty EVs being in non-OECD countries by 2050.

UK announces ambitious regulations to boost EV sales

2021-10-21 / Robert Vinet

We Go Electric »

The UK government wants to introduce a new mandate requiring manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of emissions-free vehicles each year from 2024 onwards as part of its new Net Zero Strategy.

To prepare for the incoming ICE sales ban in 2030, the UK government is working on a step-by-step plan to transform the energy economy.

New funding commitments include an extra £350 million to support the electrification of UK vehicles and their supply chains. The government claims the strategies will secure 440,000 jobs and “unlock” £90 billion in investment in 2030.

Just Auto »

The UK government said a zero emission vehicle mandate will improve consumer choice and ‘ensure we maximise the economic benefit from this transition by giving a clear signal to investors’.

The UK government has said it wants to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and that by 2035 that commitment is extended to hybrids so that all cars must be fully zero emissions capable.

Also » UK Gov’t Net Zero Strategy – Build Back Greener / The Guardian / City A.M. / Automotive News Europe /