“It’s now not just about securing minerals supply, but understanding ethics and geopolitics.”   Every so often I scroll through my social media feeds to find disturbing pictures of child labor or environmental damage that are purported to be the result of mining for battery minerals.   While these pictures and stories are sometimes ...

▲ Kim Moo-hwan, President of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   When I arrived in the United States to attend CES 2023, it was raining in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Such weather was rare in the winter, but more surprising was the Californian storm that had lasted three weeks from the end ...

  “It’s the ‘IT IS’ problem that we need to solve for EVs, not so much the vehicles,” a senior automotive executive friend told me. IT IS stands for “It’s The Infrastructure, Stupid”, a wordplay on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign slogan of “It’s the Economy, Stupid.”   And he’s not wrong.   We need ...

The decade of the battery is just getting started   For a while, we here at Vision Mobility have been calling the 2020’s the decade of the battery. It’s taking over cars, electricity grids, home electricity storage, industrial vehicles and many other areas that weren’t considered practical just 10 years ago.   There’s also a ...

  The challenge of global climate change has captured the world’s attention and has risen to become one of the most important sources of concern among CEOs of the largest global corporations. While some have pledged to rethink their own emissions and use of new technologies to reduce their carbon footprint and impact, others have ...

▲ Ferrari’s first PHEV SF90 Spider model (left) and Genesis GV60 model (right) loaded with SK On’s battery were displayed in SK On’s booth at InterBattery 2022 held from March 17 to 22 in Seoul, Korea.   Last year, numerous media outlets plastered their headlines with IT giant company Apple making autonomous vehicles. And that ...

If you own an electric vehicle (EV), you would know that there are essentially 3 questions that make up 90% of the questions are asked about EVs:   1) How much does it cost? 2) What is the driving range? 3) How long does it take to charge?   This isn’t just my experience or ...

  “Carbon neutrality” refers to the goal of reducing actual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to zero (0) by taking countermeasures to absorb as much CO2 as is emitted. In a report published in 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) predicted that the average global warming would climb above 1.5°C from 2035 to 2052, ...

  ㅣBattery business expansion strategy based on regions   While Europe and China have pushed the EV market forward, the proportion of EV sales in total automotive sales in the United States was just 10.4 % in the third quarter of 2021. However, as the Biden administration seeks to introduce relevant legislation, such as an ...

  There doesn’t seem to be a day go by without Vision Mobility hearing of companies developing cutting edge technology in electric transportation. While many are focused on passenger cars, there’s a huge range of both new and established firms designing and developing battery electric vehicles (EVs) for many different use cases – where there’s ...

  “You’re not going to get any traction with numbers like that around here!” It was early 2018 and I had just presented Vision Mobility’s latest future electric vehicle (EV) global sales forecast to senior management at a major OEM. The forecast of 30% of new car sales would be battery electric (BEV) by 2030, ...

▲ A Ford’s F-150 car thdisplayed at SK Innovation’s booth at InterBattery 2021   The first time I saw a large American pickup truck, I was shocked. Shocked at just how HUGE they are. It was around 2002, a then new Toyota Tundra, that Toyota Australia had brought in for evaluation. Four inches wider than ...