Of these 26k were car and the data showed 71% averaged > □ us Last summer the DfT funded a 5mth study where our ICE-2-EV app generated 91k legs of travel from +500 volunteers in Glasgow and Cardiff. Balancing ultra sites with on-street and local needs. The challenge is getting safe, accessible new EV sites in the right places with the right charging speeds. As impactful on effective range as a battery, except the network will keep growing and become denser. The other half of the equation is the location of charging infrastructure and their speeds. Which means more EVs to displace ICE cars and decarbonising transport faster EV price bands could lower to appeal to a wider socioeconomic group thanks to smaller batteries (still making their profits on the rest of the car) Lighter EVs have better KWh/100km or MPGe or miles/KWh Higher volumes means the feared work force can happen slower (or maybe not at all) That means more cars sold, revenue and inbound profits The same amount of battery material for 3 EVs could for example go to sell 5 EVs So instead of over-specifying the EV with one big battery, more OEMs should offer a second smaller option or even two Understanding the needs and lifestyle of the customer though can unlock the virtuous circle of matching supply with demand: And yet its generally accepted OEMs are making their profits from the bits they control - i.e. The tiny number of battery suppliers and ensuing power imbalance means many OEMs had to agree to "pass-through contracts", allowing raw material price hikes to be attributed to the OEM. Other than having a FIA pro/racing license (7th at Daytona 24 last month), his statement is one of the first I can recall from an auto OEM CEO about the importance of battery rightsizing.īatteries are the external variable almost every OEM building EVs has to wrestle with. ".design the smallest possible battery for competitive size." OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitationsįord Motor Company CEO Jim Farley on their future EV strategy: #helpOSMintheuk #UKEUdataflow #osm #geospatialcommission #ethicalgeo #geomatters So I hope the UK government, all stripes of MPs and Geospatial Commission Satellite Applications Catapult Connected Places Catapult and Digital Catapult will help persuade them to keep their home in the UK. The UK has a fabulous history and pedigree in the geospatial arena. OpenStreetMap Foundation is up there with the likes of OSGeo and The Apache Software Foundation. However, there are many startups (my two included) and established players (Pokemon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon to name a few) who were able to venture into the geo space because of the foundation of OSM and it's licensing terms. Along the way working with NAVTEQ, Nokia, deCarta and HERE. I was introduced to OSM in the summer of 2006 while doing a The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art project, then in 2007 running around London to contribute the GPS coordinates of all sorts of exciting and utilitarian landmarks. And today many citizen led and active travel projects, including those for walking and cycling have been great benefactors. There are also features that other ground surveys and without doubt commercial cartography solutions would never bother to document and publish that OSM has. Other well known examples include their use in disaster zones and helping to map uncharted shanty towns where a lack of 'having an address' stifles socio-economic opportunity. Not to mention that it allowed a whole new design/human factors lens to flourish in the otherwise conservative cartography space. The tools, services and communities that have emerged from OSM are near endless. The positive impact of this UK born institute reaching the farthest corners of the globe, often because existing commercial solutions couldn't see the business case. The founders of OSM welcomed, led and grew a worldwide community of cartographers, spawning new businesses and professional careers. While the UKs Ordnance Survey set the precedent for rigour and structure centuries ago. Something that should generate concern and better still a response from the Geospatial Commission. So it is disturbing to read this AM in the Guardian article below, that the foundation is considering relocating out of the UK. Their utility to communities across the world, NGOs and opening up the geospatial realm is indisputable. OpenStreetMap Foundation is one of the defining opensource and community driven projects of its time.
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