Full battery electric vehicles are yet to achieve significant worldwide success on the market. This analysis shows that the required technologies have already been developed, but not for a use in the mass market, where low cost is mandatory to be successful. Central roles for this success will be played by governments, industries, and research and standardization institutions. A great effort in both national and international synchronization and coordination activities, together with a clear regulatory push, will be mandatory. Enabling technologies for the plug-in hybrid and full electric vehicles will also come from the “3Cs”: Costs, Comfort, and Climatic dependency. There is definitely not a single impulse that will be sufficient to enable the market for electric vehicles.
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Lorentz, V. R. H., Wenger, M. M., John, R., & März, M. (2015). Electrification of the Powertrain in Automotive Applications: “Technology Push” or “Market Pull”? In Lecture Notes in Mobility (pp. 35–51). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12244-1_3
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