The North American plug-in electric vehicle market is expected to experience year-on-year growth of around 62% in 2016 — bringing sales numbers up to around 200,000 — according to a new report from Navigant Research. The new report — Electric Vehicle Geographic Forecasts — also notes that, while electric vehicle (EV) sales in North America to […]
Long-distance travel needs for electric vehicles in the top 100 US metropolitan areas could be met with just 408 direct current (DC) fast-charging stations, according to a new report from Navigant Research. The report provides a compressive overview of the locations where DC electric vehicle (EV) fast-charging stations would be best situated in the case […]
The effects of global demand-side polices incentivizing plug-in electric vehicles purchases were examined in a recent report from Navigant Research — one that saw trends in historic sales and market conditions correlated with incentives-based support efforts, among other things. “Despite significant battery cost cuts in the last 5 years, PEVs (plug-in electric vehicles) without subsidies […]
LG Chem has been named by the most recent Navigant Research Leaderboard report on automotive lithium-ion battery companies as the top company in the market. The report — which ranks companies based on strategy and execution — saw the top position, held by LG Chem, followed by positions held by Panasonic and Samsung SDI. All […]
I was honored to moderate an excellent panel on the topic of “Electrifying Transport” at the recent Renewable Cities Global Learning Forum in Vancouver, Canada. I’ll write articles about each of the presentations from that panel in the coming days, but to kick things off, below is my presentation, which focuses on the #1 barrier […]
Electric truck and bus sales are expected to surge 10-fold between now and 2023, according to a new report from Navigant Research. The report in question predicts that worldwide sales of battery-electric and electric-assisted commercial vehicles will increase from less than 16,000 in 2014 to over 160,000 a year by the year 2023. Overall penetration […]
Electric vehicles are becoming big business in very short order, and the market for lithium-ion batteries in particular is primed to explode. The preferred battery chemistry of just about every automaker is based on lithium-ion technology, and by 2023 the market for such batteries could exceed $24 billion. That’s according to Navigant Research, which says […]
This study would have been a ton more interesting if the respondents actually had some familiarity with electric vehicles. Since they didn’t, be very cautious of any conclusions you make based on these non-EV owner’s responses about EVs. 3 Reasons Why Navigant’s $26,000 EV Demand Finding Should Be Taken With Half A Grain Of Salt […]
Confirming what I postulated last weekend, people are not familiar with electric cars yet. In a survey conducted by Navigant Research, only 31% of respondents were familiar with the highest-selling electric car to date, the Nissan Leaf. Only 22% were familiar with the Tesla Model S, which has gotten a great deal of press coverage […]
Obviously, I think electric vehicles will do very well, that electric motors are the future. But I’m not the only one. Read about Navigant Research’s latest electric motor revenue forecast and some critiquing of that in this CleanTechnica repost: Electric Drive Motor Revenue To Surpass $2.8 Billion (Or Much More) Annually By 2020 (via Clean […]
Lithium-ion batteries are the clear EV battery technology winner today, as they are being used in the vast majority of electric vehicles on the market today. The future may bring a shift to lithium-air batteries or something else, but for the foreseeable future, lithium-ion batteries are on top. As electric vehicles are still in a […]
In a recent study by Navigant Research, the market research firm reports that nearly 200,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) equipped with vehicle-to-building (V2B) technology will be sold from 2012 through 2020. (This should be a standard option on all PEVs sold.) The V2B technology allows the energy stored in the PEV batteries to be available to commercial and residential […]