chelsea sexton

Electrifying transport since 1990s. 🔌🔋🚗🚌🚛🚃🚲Financing the future. Tilts at windmills as a lifestyle choice.

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs. If your company isn't competitive in building EVs and can only build internal combustion, you're going to be stuck serving an ever-smaller share of a shrinking global market over the next decade...

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

@pluginsites @ChargePointnet This reflects poorly on the dealer, @Hyundai, and @ChargePointnet. This is why any public funding for charging must come with robust strings attached.

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

@pluginsites I’m sure those same folks are prepared for it to be entirely privately funded then. No federal, state, or ratepayer funding involved, contrary to the last 30 years. 🙄

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

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https://t.co/pbhzwsP0Lq

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

@willharvy The lowest Gen 1 VIN leased to a customer was 037, so that one would have been used as a test vehicle/demo.

[West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) @WestWingReport]

4/
Think electric vehicles are new? Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft rode around at various times in them. Here's Taft's 1912 Baker Electric

[Center for Industrial Strategy @IndustrialStrat]

America needs more engineers in Washington

We’re launching the William Knudsen Industrial Strategy Fellowship—for technical talent serious about rebuilding American industry

If you are an engineer at a startup, investment firm, or industrial corporation and are interested in learning more about industrial policy, this 10-week fellowship is for you

The fellowship will include:
- guest seminars with leading policymakers in DC
- Topical readings on the history, structure, and levers of U.S. industrial policy
- Publishing Policy Memos on various industrial policy topics
- In-person trip to Washington D.C.

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

If I didn’t know better, this is a Hal Riney ad in the best of ways. As @Dean_Devlin would say, “less spinach, more ice cream”.

[RJ Scaringe @RJScaringe]

What if...

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

Most LPO critical minerals projects have used the ATVM program, which receives treatment similar to 1703 in this proposal.

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

@compu_85 @jaymekds One or two!

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

@JigarShahDC @Cal_ETC pioneered this in Southern CA.

[Jon Owen @anotherJon]

I *love* this quote from Pontevedra's mayor, Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores:

"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them."

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

So very, very many industrial projects are hindered by this bottleneck. In many cases, @energy Loan Programs Office can provide low cost financing to expand transformer manufacturing. Come call our bluff. Please.

[U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY]

Happy 100th Birthday, President Jimmy Carter!

As the founder of the Department of Energy, President Carter paved the way for America's brightest energy future.

Our nation is better because of his lifelong commitment to public service and humanitarianism.

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

Centers the most convenient and affordable charging while removing guesswork and range anxiety for new EV drivers. Love this. More should follow.

[Jim Farley @jimfarley98]

Auto shoppers say they're more likely to buy an electric vehicle if they could fill up at home. So we’re going to make it easy for our customers. If you buy or lease a new @Ford electric vehicle, we’ll include a complimentary home charger. This is part of something we’re calling the Ford Power Promise, which is about giving our electric vehicle customers convenience, peace of mind and expert service. I explain more about the #FordPowerPromise here:

[Lang Reynolds @LangReynolds]

More people are getting killed by drivers than any time since 1980, if anything we should be lowering speed limits (and actually enforcing traffic laws)

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

@rohanspatel @danahull @farzyness @wholemars CARB’s forthcoming requirement of 50 miles min EV range for PHEVs to get credit also means we’re not talking about bare minimum PHEVs anymore, but cars that electrify the vast majority of annual miles and more likely to be tried by folks who won’t jump to full BEV at first.

[Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont]

you love to see it https://t.co/ay0A2nZf1n

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

An electric VW bus has been Lucy’s football since the first concept in 2011. I’ve never seen an EV so begrudgingly brought to market, and I’ve seen…a lot.

[InsideEVs @InsideEVs]

VW finally released pricing and range specs for the beloved ID. Buzz, but the internet has turned up its nose.
https://t.co/rfIUvUJbWQ

[chelsea sexton @evchels]

This. Right. Here. 👇🏻