Kalanick: Pricing in transportation is the sum of all strategy
“Pricing in the transportation space is the sum of all strategy.”
Ball: Transport costs create a 25 percent price umbrella for decentralized ammonia
“You know, again, that five to 600 dollars a ton selling price, about maybe 20, 25% of that is transportation. So there is some budget, even within the U.S., for these decentralized approaches.”
87% of Samsara bookings now come from non-transportation verticals
“About, I think in the last earnings call, we talked about. 13% of our bookings were in transportation. 87%. The compliment was everything else.”
Lacey: 80% of technologies needed for rapid decarbonization exist today
“Almost nobody would disagree that we have about 80% of the technologies today across the electricity sector, industry, and transportation to decarbonize and decarbonize fast if we were really putting our shoulders into it.”
Zou: Transportation gets 30% of climate VC despite causing 15% of emissions
“We've tracked transportation accounting for 15% of total emissions. As per the IPCC 2019 report, but receiving 30% of venture and growth investment since 2020. Whereas on the other hand, you know, energy deals, or energy investment made up 22% of overall fundi…”
US industrial emissions will surpass power and transport by 2035
“The industrial sector is set to overtake power generation and transportation as the biggest source of planet warming emissions in the U.S. By twenty-thirty-five.”
Global industry emits more CO2 than all transportation combined
“Industry around the world accounts for more carbon dioxide emissions than all forms of transportation combined, and that's largely driven by steel, cement, and chemicals.”
Frohwein: Non-tech sectors still face severe hiring and retention shortages
“Many industries are still going through a lot of the pain that, you know, we all saw in, you know, healthcare, transportation, logistics, other areas are still seeing incredible challenges hiring employees and retaining them.”
All non-rocket transportation will become electric this century
“Basically the century, all form of transportation besides rockets will move to electric.”
Home Fossil Fuel Use Accounts for 10% of US Emissions
“Transportation is almost a third of U.S. Carbon emissions, and burning fossil fuels at home is another 10%.”
Kann: Industrial heat generates 25% of global emissions, surpassing transportation
“Industrial heat is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Full stop. I will pause there. It is responsible for more emissions annually than all transportation globally put together. About 25% of all of our emissions come from burni…”
Petrochemical Demand Is Growing Faster Than Transportation Fuel Demand
“Petrochemicals are a significantly smaller share of oil and gas demand than transportation is today, but they're growing faster.”
Cupta: Transportation optimization will be quantum computing's first major climate win
“I do think it is going to be those optimization problems, honestly. I really think it's going to be in transportation, I think it's going to be in optimization because that problem is far more definable, it is easier, it takes a lower power quantum computer,
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Chamath predicts gig economy platforms adopting franchise models will win big
“I think franchising is a really, really smart business idea, and I think that particularly in transportation and a lot of these services that have this natural dynamic to be local where there are an infinite sum of many local markets. I think It's like a Burge…”
Brown: Livestock emissions exceed all global transportation emissions combined
“I became aware of the greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock industry, which are huge. They're greater than all forms of power transportation combined.”
Arison: Used car demand will jump as consumers avoid rideshare
“And my guess is that people are also going to try to avoid transportation and avoid ride sharing, right? So my hunch is that demand for used cars over the next couple of quarters is going to jump because of everything that's kind of going on.”
Aggarwal: Indian digitization is at ground zero outside retail and transport
“But in India, everything is ground zero, other than probably retail and transportation, where there is some degree of maturity.”
Dixon: Tech has only truly disrupted media, transportation, and retail
“The, it's kind of surprising, 25 years into the internet that, The only industries that have been really quote disrupted have been, I think media, maybe transportation and maybe starting to happen is retail, right? And then the rest, I mean, if you look at the…”
David Lee: Animal farming emits as much greenhouse gas as all transportation
“Animal farming produces more greenhouse gases than almost any sector, the same as all forms of transportation combined, period.”
Cembalest: Decarbonizing transport and industry matters more than grid decarbonization
“Decarbonizing transportation and decarbonizing industrial energy use is really where it's at if you're trying to get a handle on this problem. I mean, grid decarbonization is good, but people make a mistake by over-inflating what the consequences of success th…”