electric vehicles

“There's lots of sound research showing that when one person does something, like buy an electric vehicle or install rooftop solar, it drastically increases the chances that their friends and neighbors do the same thing.”

“They are forcing the curve on EVs. They're forcing the price structure of batteries. It's hard not to see them as one of the greatest forces of the last decade in catalyzing the energy transition. For all of the lying and prevaricating and questionable busines…”

“You know, we're a conservative dealership in a conservative part of the United States, and it doesn't necessarily make sense to sell EVs just yet in Montana. We're getting there. The infrastructure is not where it should be for the drivers.”

“I mean, you don't know where it's going to go. You don't know what sort of What backing they're going to put behind it, you don't know what the consumers are going to end up wanting, and so to say I'm not going to sign up for something could be very, very shor…”

“Four years ago, there were 12 Super Bowl ads for cars, and none of them promoted EVs. This year, six out of seven car ads were for electric vehicles.”

“If we were clearly a two-car household, Having an EV in the garage would be a no-brainer. And then in the situations where we needed something more range or a different kind of capability, then we could just pull out the gas-powered car. But because we're esse…”

“I think we're now Into the eight percent of new cars globally are electric, and it's just gonna keep growing from there.”

“California is mandated to basically put in about 5,000,005 million electric vehicles by 2030. And SMUD's contribution of that is about 300,000 vehicles.”

“The good news about electric vehicles is they have far more in common with solar than they do with efficiency. Folks can see them, and they can see that they have been normalized and understand that it is not a risk to actually start to electrify transportatio…”

“It gives, you know, thirty billion to renewables, ten billion to EVs, and sixty billion to low-income and energy communities.”

“The economic stakes are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Today, gas stations and utilities sell roughly the same dollar amount of fuel and electricity, but the balance could shift dramatically toward utilities as more electric vehicles hit the roads.”

“This year, the U.S. Passed a tipping point for electric vehicles. Five percent of new car sales are battery electric.”

“And then the last thing I would say, it is very obvious to everyone that electric vehicles will break the current grid. It is not possible to do what we're currently doing, letting people just charge whenever they want, do whatever they want, whenever they wan…”

“Norway is at 90% EVs. They've done this massive transition, and yet they're one of the biggest oil producers. They're not going to stop producing oil. They're not going to stop selling it. They're going to increase it. They have 50 more years of oil, and yet t…”

“Today, less than one percent of school buses are electric.”

“I think, 60 this year, it'll double next year and be a significant part of what's on the highways here. By 2030.”

“Many of the promises from the Obama era, ah, a million EVs on the roads by 2015, ah, owning 40% of the world's battery manufacturing, creating a million new manufacturing jobs, they just didn't materialize as expected.”

“They have, in fact, barred several makes and models of EVs from receiving all of, or any of, the commercial, or the tax credit that you get from when you buy a vehicle”

“Nearly 1.8 million rooftop solar installations, a 10 X increase in batteries to more than five gigawatts, and one in four cars sold in the state are now electric.”

“The IEA says that electric vehicles are on course to make up 40% of all new car sales by 2030, up from just 15% of sales today.”

“EVs are a completely new device type, each of them charging anywhere between seven to 15 kilowatts at home, and that is a tremendous amount of load to be putting onto a cul-de-sac that has eight homes, and now suddenly, 2.1 cars per household is starting to lo…”

“There's two hundred eighty million cars in the country. There's a hundred and twenty million households. We designed a century old grid around those hundred twenty million households, and now as all these cars start going electric, there's just going to be a t…”

“I mean, a lot of people who buy these distributed resources today EVs very much being that, solar, whatever, are generally very wealthy people, and so are we now doing rate design and setting operational constraints based on what the richest 10% want, or are w…”

“Like, I can tell you, right now, here in New York, utilities couldn't go and just market. If I know you have an EV, I couldn't just go and market people saying, here's a great rate for you that can save you money. Even though it's a good thing for customers, t…”

“So Shell announced that it's permanently closing six of its seven hydrogen refueling stations for passenger cars in California, and my forecast is that maybe this is, I hope the end of trying to make hydrogen-powered passenger cars happen, because EVs are simp…”

“They became at the end of last year, the leading seller of EVs. They edged out Tesla last year for that title”

“These are mobile, flexible energy resources, and so their mobility comes first and foremost. It is a device not built for energy purposes. Please deal with the automakers. They will tell you how much they do not care about the energy parts. First and foremost,…”

“10 to 20 gigawatts of peak load to the system, requiring 12 to 18 gigawatts of renewable capacity.”

“The bridge between the distribution operations team and the customer teams, that is coming. You know, that bridge is being built very quickly, and EVs are at the center of that, and I think you cannot actually build it without machine intelligence, because fun…”

“I think the debate will quickly be obsolete just because it'll be like supporting DVDs over streaming when streaming came out. I mean, it's a better machine in every way. The EV that you buy today will be the most expensive EV ever, because the costs just keep…”

“On the rideshare side, in dense urban markets where there's a lot of traffic, we're hearing from operators, it's cost-accretive for them to run EVs instead of traditional vehicles because of the fuel savings.”