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Electric Vehicle Adoption: Focus on Charging

"Electric Vehicle Adoption" is a Fuels Institute report that evaluates the electric vehicle (EV) market from the consumer perspective, including total cost of ownership, recharging infrastructure requirements, anticipated consumer recharging behavior, and the relationship of EVs to competing technology in terms of consumer adoption. The EV market is developing and changing rapidly, evidenced by charging infrastructure deployment and the increasing number of EV models available. Although EVs are being positioned to comprise a significant share of the American light-duty vehicle market in the long-term future, near-term hurdles will temper large-scale EV growth, including battery prices, charging infrastructure and model availability, federal policy outlook, and consumer awareness levels. It is not a question of if but when these barriers will be addressed, according to the report. This report focuses on the demand for and the installation and operation of EV charging infrastructure. The report also presents detailed map-based charging infrastructure analyses and in-depth case studies on charging infrastructure deployment for diverse, representative metropolitan markets. Click for report

'GLOBAL INITIATIVES' MEAN WORLDWIDE CHANGES

According to the latest report from the Fuels Institute, "Global Initiatives: Assessing Current and Future Global Initiatives on Fuels & Vehicles": 33 countries have set specific biofuel mandates with city or provincial requirements in two additional countries 41 countries have set renewable transport requirements, dominated by the 28 EU member states 37 countries have set fuel economy standards for their LDV fleets, 35 have set them for light-commercial vehicles (LCVs) and 4 have set them for HDVs 13 countries have set ZEV support policies, which primarily is focused on fiscal incentives for now 22 cities and countries globally have set a ban or other limitation on the ICEV, most of which has occurred only in the last year or so 7 countries have an ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) standard of below 50 ppm 39 countries have set stringent emission standards for LDVs, while 33 have set them for HDVs Click for report

E85 vs. Unleaded: What's the Score?

According to the Fuels Institute’s latest report, “Retailing E85: An Analysis of Market Performance, Jul 2014-Aug 2015”: The price of unleaded seems to have little effect on E85 sales. Linear predictions that seek to forecast E85 sales volumes based on price relative to unleaded are not reliable. Energy parity does not seem to factor significantly in E85 pricing decisions. Lower volume stores reported stronger E85 sales in both gallons and percent volume. Click for report 

Shared Travel: Revolution or Evolution?

The Fuels InstituteExecutive Summary: Insight Into Business Strategy ContextThis report connects fleet and customer analysis. While the customer demographic data represents general locations and not the actual customers, the combination reveals valuable insights because all of the car-sharing companies must make strategic and tactical choices in where to locate, and therefore must assess the characteristics of those markets.In that light, strategic insights emerge from connecting the dots:Car-sharing is a real-estate game. Car-sharing goes after the low-hanging fruit and locates in areas with smaller households, fewer vehicles per household, higher income and more education. Car-sharing is a downtown phenomenon. Turo, the peer-to-peer rental company, appears to have a model that is fundamentally different on some measures than car-sharing. Both car-sharing and peer-to-peer gravitate toward the largest metropolitan areas — those with a population of 1 million or more. Another commonality is that car-sharing and peer-to-peer companies contain nontrivial inventories of alternative vehicles in their fleets. The market introduction challenges of electric vehicles (EVs) cannot be magically overcome by car-sharing; the car-sharing fleets are not dominated by EVs.  Click here for report
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