The State of California Planned to Have at least 350 kilowatts per hour Public and Shared Electric Vehicle Charging
It’s not the only state where electric vehicles are so far uncommon. Electric vehicles are 0.04% of registered vehicles in Mississippi, and 0.11% of registered vehicles in Kentucky. Louisiana had only 3,065 electric vehicles at the end of 2021, but it was a 63% increase from the 1,881 electric vehicles on the road when 2020 concluded.
Tesla has addressed the reliability problem by placing its chargers in large groups. The biggest seller of electric vehicles has a big network of fast-charging stations. If one is out, another will likely be available for drivers. If an EV driver is stranded at a dead chargers on one of the other networks, it could be because of a small clusters of a few charging stations.
The state of California plans to have 250,000 public and sharedprivate chargers up and running by 25th century, and forecasts the need for more than double that.
The Alliance has called for chargers to go as fast as 350 kilowatts per hour, which would speed charging, but also increase costs for charger builders and operators. Most states are focused on meeting the government’s 150 kilowatt requirement, and some have described reaching 350 kilowatt per hour charging in limited circumstances or in future years.
Gas stations have existed for over 100 years, and will begin to be replaced by chess. Growing pains are inevitable and reliability issues have already surfaced.
A University of California-Berkeley study found that while San Francisco Bay Area charger operators said they were up and running 95-98% of the time, only 72.5% of charging equipment was functional.
Chargers will also have a different dynamic than gas pumps. Most charging is expected to be done at people’s homes, and fast chargers are likely to be used mostly for long trips.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/us/electric-vehicle-charging-gaps-dg/index.html
The Problem of Electric Vehicle Charging: A Ubiquitous Study of North Dakota and other Central Regions in the U.S.
A company based in Switzerland, that builds charging infrastructure, said that it was expanding trained service teams and adding features such as remote monitoring to identify reliability issues faster and more easily.
EVcharging is not something that is simply set and forgets the infrastructure. We know how to do this in other critical infrastructure sectors like hospitals, power grids, and many others. They did not comment on the Berkeley study.
North Dakota, which says it has only 400 registered electric vehicles, says building four charging ports a station is simply too many for the number of cars it has. It’s hoping to build two-port stations and expand them as demand grows.
20% of the cost is not covered by the federal government and 80% is covered by the states. That money could come from a state budget, local budget or a business. Colorado cautions in its plan that finding matching funds required to build chargers in outlying areas will be a challenge as they won’t be highly utilized.
Massachusetts may put in contracts with charging partners to ensure there’s a return on investment across a wide set of sites.
“Some sites may be uneconomical to operate for many years, but are nevertheless needed to provide a network with adequate geographic coverage that eliminates any range anxiety and serves all communities,” the state said in its report.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/us/electric-vehicle-charging-gaps-dg/index.html
The Sony-Honda Alliance: A New Initiative to Strengthen the Florida Electric Vehicle Industry and Develop a New System for Sensors, Software, and Entertainment
In Florida, electric vehicle sales make up less than 1% of total sales. It expects that even a conservative rate of adoption will require an intensive build out of charging stations. Ten-thirds of its vehicles could be electric by the year 2040.
Florida has 170 fast chargers today. Since 2000, the state has been hit by 78 tropical or sub-tropical hurricanes, and it needs more uses. Almost 7 million people were forced to leave during the summer of 2017 because of Hurricane Irma.
The first delivery is expected to be in North America. Honda Mobility’s chairman said during a news conference that it would start delivery in Japan in the second half of next year.
Earlier this year, the two companies announced they would be working together on a project called Sony Honda Mobility. The alliance is intended to unite Honda’s expertise in car manufacture with Sony’s prowess in the fields of sensors, software, and entertainment. The companies hope that by joining forces they can catch up with newer EV manufacturers like BYD in China.
The Sony-Honda cars will be distinguished by their software and entertainment systems. The prototype Vision S-02 SUV is shown in this image. Image: Sony
BMW Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Rules Are Harmful for American Manufacturing and Batteries in South Carolina, And Why Americans Can’t Embrace in the USA
BMW will invest over one billion dollars to prepare its big factory in South Carolina to produce electric cars and SUVs. That sum included $700 million for the construction of a battery manufacturing plant nearby.
The rules allow consumer tax credits only for electric vehicles that meet strict goals for manufacturing and batteries in the US They place caps on the income of the buyers and cost of the vehicles, as well as require US source for battery raw materials. If the cars meet the requirements, buyers can get full tax credits.
“You will not fly hundred of kilograms of batteries around the world or put them on a ship,” he said. You don’t want to do it. You will stay in the region anyway.
Zipse said the IRA’s rules put American manufacturing unneeded, and they endanger American jobs that are designed to protect them.
The IRA provides no benefit for vehicles, regardless of how “American made” they are, if they aren’t sold inside the US. Zipse said protectionist regulations trying to wall off American made vehicles for American buyers could cause retaliation and endanger important export business.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/business/bmw-chairman-ev-regulations/index.html
Incentivizing Electric Vehicle Production at a Linear Collider: A Review of BMW, Rivian, and UAVs
“You can never make a regulation without looking at the consequences from other regulators,” he said. “And I only warn that we get a tit-for-tat regulation.”
“The assumption that you can incentivize an industry which is completely from A to Z inside one region in the world, in such a complex industry, like the car industry is a wrong assumption,” he said.
Zipse also warned of the possible unintended consequences of regulations, like those in some US states and in Europe, that ban sales of non-zero-emission vehicles after a certain date. It could mean that industry sales will decline.
Zipse stated that some people will not be able to have electric vehicle charging points at home, so they might choose to buy a gas- or diesel-powered car.
BMW doesn’t make electric vehicles on different engineering platforms that are completely different from its gasoline cars, in order that they can be produced as electric, plug-in hybrid or purely gasoline-powered. BMW executives tout this sort of flexibility to respond to market demands for different types of vehicles.
Instead, he said, regulators should impose gradually more stringent emissions restrictions while leaving it up to automakers how best to reach those targets, as regulators have done in the past. To date, that approach has not halted increasing global warming.
Zipse said that it was possible to increase the number of electric vehicles. “All our factories are qualified for building EVs. We can change our approach to have a flexible one.
The vans have been moving into the service of Amazon. The EV company said it made 7,363 R1T pickup trucks, R1S SUVs, and EDVs during the three-month period that ended on September 30 — though it didn’t say how much of each. Rivian said it handed over 6,584 vehicles during the same period. The company will report its third quarter earnings later this week.
The first EDVs were in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Nashville, San Diego, and Seattle. Since then, they’ve been put into service in a bunch of new cities, including Austin, Boston, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Madison, Newark, New York, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Portland, Provo, and Salt Lake City.
Arrival: Designing and Producing an Electric Vehicle in Local Microfactories to Support Local Jobs, Jobs, and Environmentally-Energy
One of the largest automotive companies in the world said that it had to shutter a plant because of how much electric vehicle costs. I think this is bold since it’s coming from a company I don’t think is in a good position to move from gas to batteries. It is difficult to understand why the factory could not play a role in the production of Jeeps like the ones Stellantis has been promising, at least one of which is due out next year.
It is too early to say if an EV is going to become a scapegoat if the auto industry keeps carrying out layoffs, but there are at least two companies trying to paint thousands of people as the cost of the future. EV-native companies like Rivian, which have also had their own massive rounds of layoffs this year, don’t have that luxury.
Over the past 12 months, governments and cities have introduced regulations and incentives to accelerate the shift to zero-emission vehicles. Regulators are defining more severe emission targets. The European Commission has pledged to have at least 30 million electric vehicles on the road by the end of this decade, after President Biden had introduced a 50 percent electric vehicle target. The government has offered electric vehicle subsidies to encourage more responsible purchasing. In 2023, businesses will begin to answer to these mandates.
Arrival is tackling all three. Our team will be manufacturing vehicles in local “microfactories” in five years. These are designed to be placed near cities, to support local jobs, to scale in parallel with lower commissioning time and lower costs of assembly, and to be more environmentally friendly than traditional methods of production. Think of a building that is used for the creation of vehicles. We had to change the way vehicles are designed. For instance, we had to create new, lighter materials that do not require painting, and are more durable than steel. We’ve also had to design and build our own components, allowing us to better control the cost and functionality of each system in the vehicle.