electric cars

“Most analysts assume that electric cars will be as cheap to produce as gas-powered cars with no government subsidies by twenty-twenty-five.”

“Bloomberg is forecasting, 2038 as the year where electric cars reach parity in terms of sales with gas burning cars, and then they never look back. That will be the year of peak gas car production, 2038.”

“Norway is almost at 50% now. The Netherlands is six percent electric. California is five percent electric. But overall, under three percent of today's sales of cars are electric. So it's about 500,000 out of eighteen million cars sold in the U.S.”

“As a result, most people expect electric cars to last for 500,000 to a million miles compared to internal combustion engine cars which have an expected lifetime of closer to 200 or 300,000 miles.”

“When a car becomes electric, it becomes software, and so your upgrades, you know, instead of paying an extra 5000 dollars for the sports gearbox, there is no gearbox.”

“We need to do bikes and bike sharing really well to then be able to offer a suite of mobility options in the urban environment or in cities. So we could envision a future where we're rolling out very small vehicles or electric cars, for example, that might not…”

“It seems pretty clear to me that on a, like a five or 10 year view, and bear in mind cars are on a five to 10 year replacement cycle, so it doesn't have to happen that quickly there will, the entire car supply chain will have reoriented around electric, and ev…”

“Flash forward to 1900, and astonishingly, electric cars make up about a third of the cars on the road.”

“The first electric cars can be traced back to as early as the 18 thirties.”

“It would, by the way, it would have gotten us to electric cars, you know, probably 3040 years faster. And would have completely separated us from strategic involvement in the, in, in the Middle East for energy.”