Ray Lane on Future of EV Industry & Cleantech Investing

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Here’s another post from Susanna Schick on what she learned over at Charged 2012 last week:



Charged 2012 | Ray Lane On the Future of the EV Industry (via Gas 2.0)

The closing keynote at the Silicon Valley EV Symposium was Ray Lane, managing partner at VC Firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and Fisker board member. Ray began with his involvement with the Electrification Coalition: “The Electrification Coalition is a lobbying group comprised of about 15…


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  • OJHB-E

    Your point at the end is well made. Its difficult to explain to people that the ongoing costs associated with an vehicle (and this is mostly operating costs and depreciation) matter more than the upfront sticker price…there’s a killing to be made for the first person who works out how to develop an iPhone like subscription model for EV’s to bring down the upfront sticker price.

    • Bob_Wallace

      There’s no reason that EVs/PHEVs should cost more than ICEVs based on materials, energy and labor inputs. My understanding is that once they are produced in high enough numbers the cost of electricity will be less than oil-fueled vehicles.

      Consider the hundreds of carefully machined parts in an internal combustion engine. Think about how simple an electric motor is and how simple a battery is.

      We need significant government action to get sales rates up to where market forces can take over. A few years of significant subsidies could get us off the foreign oil teat and save us far, far more money than what it would cost.

    • Anne

      Renault has already done so. The upcoming ZOE will be sold for ~20,000 euros and the battery is leased starting from, iirc, 70 euros per month.

      • Anne

        Oh, and the Smart for2 ED has the same model. Buy the car, lease the battery.