Wall Street Journal reporter Christopher Mims speaks with Francis O’Sullivan, director of research at the MIT Energy Initiative, and graduate student Jesse Jenkins about the challenges related to building charging infrastructure and upgrading electric distribution grids to accommodate the growing electric vehicle market.
Bill Griffith writes for Boston.com writes about a recent conference hosted by MIT and the New England Motor Press Association on the future of electric vehicles. Griffith explains that the event brought together the “worlds of automotive manufacturing, government, utilities, clean-air proponents, global-warming experts, and academia.”
Pilita Clark of the Financial Times writes about the battery developed by Dr. Qichao Hu and Professor Donald Sadoway that can extend the driving range and lower the cost of an electric car. The new battery can store “twice as much energy as conventional [battery] cells,” Clark reports.
In a piece for CNBC about the future of electric vehicles, Phil LeBeau writes that MIT researchers estimate battery electric vehicles could account for only 3.7 percent of all vehicles sales in 2040 if the auto industry, state and federal governments, and the public do not increase their level of investment.