The big economic win of an electric vehicle is energy. UBS very optimistically predicts price parity in 2018 after tearing apart an Opel Ampera-E In the end they will be cheaper but it will take until 2025-2030 before they have a lower sticker price.
The battery cost is falling rapidly and electric vehicles also have the advantage that an electric drive-train is cheaper to produce and develop. You pay less for energy and maintenance (per kilometer).A car that makes more kilometers is bound to be electric because the cost calculation behind an electric vehicle is in essence very simple: So sharing means less vehicles while each vehicle drives more kilometers. Shared cars might be used 10% or even 30% of the time. Private cars are – on average – only used 5% of the time. Why sharing leads to electric vehiclesĬar sharing means that cars are better utilized.
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In short: self driving technology turns every car into a taxi but without an expensive driver and that makes self driving cars ideal for sharing. Why? Simply because private cars are dominant in terms of kilometers driven, space required and pollution caused. This explains all the billions being invested in self driving by companies like Lyft and Uber at the moment.īefore we go on it is also important to realize that the competition from car sharing to public transportation is less relevant than the competition to private cars. Thus self driving cars would make car sharing services so much more convenient that services with self driving cars basically play in a different league. And on your destination you just get out. If it is unavailable another car comes rushing in from another part of the city. Now imagine the car can pick you up in front of your door. if you are on a weekend trip to your parents who live one hour driving away the renting period would increase from two hours to 48 or more. You can also rent one car for both legs of the trip but that means renting it for a longer period. Both these things are inconvenient and to make matters worse: if you are making a two way trip you have to do this twice. You also have to reserve the car well in advance to avoid that somebody else whisks it away. Currently car sharing services require you to go to a car sharing point that is hopefully somewhere in the vicinity but never in front of your door.
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