Car rental is the last use case for EVs. Most renters are unfamiliar with the region, have limited time, and rent to put on miles at a faster rate than owners.
It will take ubiquitous megawatt charging infrastructure and 1,000 volt architecture for this to change. We are likely ten years away in North America. China will get there first, but it isn’t a large car rental market.
It is. Higher horsepower is predictive of higher driving speeds, higher collision rates, and more damage/risk per collision.
Even if it weren’t, it requires a heavier motor and stronger parts be used in the car, increasing costs and weight, which in turn decrease range.
Not necessarily. The answer could be to make clean electricity prices so low that even normal gasoline prices are more expensive.
I’ll hold until RDNA 5.
Europe and Asia are rapidly rejecting oil for transportation and I doubt it will ever come back.
If they can’t work with the high prices Trump created with his war, they can’t work with anything.
I hope they enjoy the long-term global demand destruction.
Yes, on the first screen it is an absolute total. On the second it is a percentage share.
So if something is growing, but slower than the growth of the rest, its share is declining.
Then go to your HOA meeting and speak for amending the bylaws to allow them. It doesn’t take much to get changes.
Metro Toronto is a disappointment. It should be have been doubling its subway network every 20 years. Instead it shut down a line, added a few stations on another, and built LRT that’s slower than the bus it replaced.
It needs express subway tracks, GO with 10 minutes headways, and transit oriented development able to house 10k people within a ten minute walk of every GO stop which means zoning for density,
Pay for it by owning the land around stations like HK or Singapore and leasing it to developers for 40 story affordable apartments, increasing the gasoline tax, and putting tolls on the 401 and Gardiner.
Toronto is a transportation nightmare. It’s time to adopt successful models from Asia to make transit fast, convenient, and cheap while making driving fast, convenient, and incredibly expensive. Fill in with protected bike lanes and the city will be liveable and affordable with great air quality
Nice that the rest of the world is moving forward and a decentralized energy future is coming closer.
That is a Ayam Cemani. They are an entirely black Indonesian chicken breed that is the most expensive to buy in the United States. Their meat is supposedly higher in protein, and also entirely black.
Iran is a sovereign country able to set their own targets. They are members of the IPCC but deliberately chose non-participation for 15 years up to 2023. Furthermore, they had unfettered access to Chinese solar panels and wind turbines until recently. As they are the main supplier of oil for Chinese teapot refineries, trade for solar panels would have been simple.
Iran bears full responsibility for their outlier status no different than the current US regime.
Private investment almost invariably has negative returns, and even ESG ETFs are sketchy as you note.
As others have written, for positive returns, focus on capital investments in your own life. I have a solar subscription with a 10% IRR and recently replaced my pool pump with a variable speed one: $2,000 installed that saves $300/annum with an average lifespan of ten years for an 8.1% IRR.
Go solar. Replace your gas heat with a heat pump. Install on demand or electric heat pump water heaters. Swap your gas car for an electic.
Vote both at the ballot and with your wallet against MAGA policies.
Yes.The Pure (base) is $72,000 delivered, plagued with issues, and subsidized so heavily the company lost $1 billion in the last quarter alone. This is reflected in some of the highest replacement parts costs in the industry rivaling ultra luxury manufacturers like Bentley. It is why residual retention is so poor even by EV standards.
This car is the poster child for my point. They put a powerful motor in, added battery to mitigate the lost range, then had to engineer around the weight at a price. You just don’t see the full cost which easily exceeds $150,000 per vehicle shipped.