EV Adoption Curve – Astute Comments

Again, I urge readers to check out the comments on the Three Brass Tacks landing page, and to enter more if desired. I just read that incredibly lucid thoughts of Arlene Allen on the EV adoption curve, in which she brought up several factors that I omitted, for example, V2G. To me, her summary is spot-on: fun and interesting to talk about, but extremely unlikely to shape the calculus meaningfully in the foreseeable future.

IMO, her comment on the Volt applies to all PHEVs regardless of the financial health or design savvy of the OEM, i.e., it’s regrettable to have to own, maintain, and lug around two independent sets of energy storage systems and energy conversion equipment. With Moore’s Law applying, as it appears to be, to the energy density and cost of lithium-ion batteries, the whole PHEV concept may be short-lived.