As we have seen in the previous posts, not all the Electric Plazas that would be needed will be built, because in many case there is no financial sustainability, at least not at the desired cost of service level. The best locations: the Electric Plaza Location Identifier OneWedge started by researching where our clients are, … More The puzzle of fleet charging (3)
This post follows another of similar subject where I discussed the various solutions available to fleet operators to charge their fleet as they move it from fossil to electric. I concluded that CAAS (like OneWedge’s Electric Plazas) offerings were a useful complement to in house solutions like Depot, Home and Public charging; however Charge-As-A-Service solutions … More The puzzle of fleet charging (2)
Most RE critics point out that the current state of electric grids is such that we risk their breakdown: a good excuse to further delay the transition, calling for “the grid first”. As an engineer, I cannot ignore the obvious challenges posed by the progressive electrification of primary energy consumption: while today the world consumes … More Are renewables good for the grid?
Looking at data helps get a perspective on the relative importance of phenomena. In particular I wanted to understand what causes EU emissions and data from the European Environment Agency indicate that: The total emissions for which transportation is liable should therefore be 750Mtons. If, however, we take the total stock of passenger cars, vans … More The puzzle of Commercial Vehicle charging
Thanks to oil propaganda, now we’re all pontificating over how much range electric cars lose with cold. I thought therefore to offer at least ONE hard data point, obtained from driving 212,000km with my own electric car, a Hyundai Kona 64kWh MY18. The blue line is the average of range in each month. The red … More Cold & range
As some know, OneWedge’s overall mission is to avoid the emission in the atmosphere by 2050 of “One Wedge” (which, in the parlance of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, is one gigaton of CO2), and we think we can achieve this by enabling the electrification of vehicles. According to numerous scientific studies (a partial collection is … More Why is freight so important?
You probably have seen articles lamenting how electric cars are less affordable than gasoline cars for the average buyer. Data however paint a different picture. First of all, the Kelly Blue Book reports that a Tesla Model3 is now about $5,000 cheaper than the average car sold in the U.S. but I live in Europe, … More Are electric cars the reason automobiles are becoming less affordable ?
ITA Many have seen this chart: it represents the electrified (BEV+PHEV) market share of global vehicles sales No everybody realizes that the data series is well approximated by an exponential curve (actually, if anything, it’s a wee bit faster), and, projecting this curve for a few more periods, we get… this! In other words, extrapolating … More Panic mode: ON
I used this clip many times in my speeches (if you need context because you haven’t seen the movie, go watch it and then come back here). Greed as in self-interest, self-preservation is a fundamental force driving any complex system evolution, and there are (at least) three ways in which greed is hard at work, … More Greed works
Field activity moves faster than this blog. It’s been less than three months since we inaugurated our second Electric Plaza and mere weeks after I reported breaking ground on the two Plazas of Milano and today I’m happy to report that OneWedge has started work on ELEVEN more plants in Lombardy, Sicily and Rome. Each … More It’s a stampede!
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