Comments on: China Gearing Up for EV Dominance http://www.pikeresearch.com/blog/china-gearing-up-for-ev-dominance Cleantech Market Intelligence Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Sinocanadian http://www.pikeresearch.com/blog/china-gearing-up-for-ev-dominance/comment-page-1#comment-150 Sinocanadian Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:03:13 +0000 http://www.pikeresearch.com/?p=1116#comment-150 Well, I'm hestitant to really, really believe that electrification of vehicles is going to be so easy. Not only do we not have anything related to a final, standard vehicle or battery technology, we haven't agreed on energy supply voltage, plug shapes, safety specifications, etc. Especially on a cross-border basis...including between provinces. Not only that, nobody knows how to sell electric cars. My parents were going to buy a hybrid car...decided not to because the battery probably wears out after 6-8 years. Well, that means if you want to sell your car after 5 or 6 years, you've got to spend $30k on a new battery first...or you basically won't be able to sell it. Ouch. Well, I’m hestitant to really, really believe that electrification of vehicles is going to be so easy. Not only do we not have anything related to a final, standard vehicle or battery technology, we haven’t agreed on energy supply voltage, plug shapes, safety specifications, etc. Especially on a cross-border basis…including between provinces.

Not only that, nobody knows how to sell electric cars.

My parents were going to buy a hybrid car…decided not to because the battery probably wears out after 6-8 years. Well, that means if you want to sell your car after 5 or 6 years, you’ve got to spend $30k on a new battery first…or you basically won’t be able to sell it.

Ouch.

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