Sukky Choongh (she/her)

New sales are core to the long-term transition to low and zero-emissions technology for road transport. However, uplifting the existing fleet to an equivalent standard with electric retrofit would encourage better use of resources. We need dedicated legislation to support this for all vehicles classes.

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LGV are a relatively mysterious part of the stock, with older vehicles particularly difficult to define as activity is led by freight, trade and private use. Whilst emissions from these vehicles have increased in-line with growth in the segment, we should soon expect to see some broad consistency in-line with national decarb projections but with very significant regional variation. This is a huge opportunity to show policy leadership and support a holisitic approach to service provided by these vehicles.

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🇺🇸EPA takes on Electric Vehicle Missinformation…… by releasing a Myth Busting ‘Green Vehicle Guide’! 🚗⚡️🥷 Good to see the Environmental Protection Agency (US government agency) doing the same thing as the UK Goverment and attempting to counter what a lot of people consider to be one of the greatest threats to EV’s out there….👺👋 Two very different markets but, very similar top five missinformation topics…. 🧟‍♂️Myth #1: Electric vehicles are worse for the climate than gasoline cars because of power plant emissions. ✅ FACT: Electric vehicles typically have a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline cars, even when accounting for the electricity used for charging. 🧞‍♂️ Myth #2: Electric vehicles are worse for the climate than gasoline cars because of battery manufacturing. ✅ FACT: The greenhouse gas emissions associated with an electric vehicle over its lifetime are typically lower than those from an average gasoline-powered vehicle, even when accounting for manufacturing. 🦄Myth #3: The increase in electric vehicles entering the market will collapse the U.S. power grid. ✅ FACT: Electric vehicles have charging strategies that can prevent overloading the grid, and, in some cases, support grid reliability. 🧟‍♀️ Myth #4: There is nowhere to charge. ✅ FACT: Electric vehicles can be plugged into the same type of outlet as your toaster! When you need to charge while on the road, you’ll find over 57,000 stations in the U.S. available to the public. 🧜‍♀️ Myth #5: Electric vehicles don’t have enough range to handle daily travel demands. ✅ FACT: Electric vehicle range is more than enough for typical daily use in the U.S. For a deeper dive see.. https://lnkd.in/eSN_2b_U.

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Only 5% of all lithium-ion batteries are currently recycled, so it’s great to see some new legislation being introduced to improve recycling. I just have a few concerns: 1. This bill does not include batteries contained within a device. Not including them is a loophole that will almost certainly reduce the impact of this bill, and not do much to reduce the risk of fire from improperly disposed Li-ion batteries. 2. Once again, we haven’t learned from the failures of the Covered Device Recovery Act of 2010, which required manufacturers selling electronics in PA to take back the same amount of e waste, by weight, as they sell in new electronics each year. Electronics keep getting lighter and lighter, so manufacturers have been able to reach their required quota for e waste recycling within just a few months, making it very hard to recycle electronics in PA throughout most of the year. This bill does the same thing, setting extended producer responsibility to recycle by weight of batteries sold. What happens when batteries become smaller and lighter? Also, since batteries contained in devices are not included in this bill, and we still have significant gaps in the recovery of these e waste devices, will we even capture enough batteries through this bill? 3. Where is the recycling infrastructure and how will we expand it to meet the needs of this bill? There aren’t enough battery recycling facilities in the US, and people aren’t quite eager to have them pop up in their backyards due to the extreme fire risk associated with lithium-ion batteries. I think that if this bill is to be effective, it must include batteries contained within devices, or the Covered Device Recovery Act of 2010 must be amended to improve the recovery rate of e waste containing batteries. I worry that people will figure out the loophole and just throw out devices with batteries instead of properly recycling them. After all, lithium-ion batteries are in everything from greeting cards to automobiles these days. Failure to significantly improve the capture rate of batteries would continue to create fire risks for waste collections and post-collections operations, not to mention the loss of resources as these materials experience a linear economy death.

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Price-parity for new BEV now means more new sales now and more reliably-priced used used cars in 2-3 years and we need to invest in 3rd-party repair and support now if these used cars are going to stay on the road long enough to make that impact.

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Time to update my stock models. Sensitivity is going to be important to recognise the balance between not only the distribution of new and used vehicles in the overall parc, but how they are used.

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Sobering reading: Only 5 of the 22 reporting indicators the CCC assesses are on track. #climateaction #netzero #energypolicy #sustainabletransport #electricmobility #ccc #uktargets #ukpolicy

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Here’s what Network Rail are doing in each region, and it’s never been more important for safety and train performance! https://lnkd.in/ePjJE2kk

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