Norbert Reithofer, Prabhakar Patil, Ernest Moniz.

“The ball is now in the court of policy-makers who will determine how quickly e-mobility is going to advance.”

Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW said during his farewell address at the General Meeting last week, adding that the company will (or should) continue to embrace new technologies because “change is the new normal.”
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“I think by the 2020 time frame, the automotive market will match or maybe be bigger than consumer electronics.”

LG Chem CEO Prabhakar Patil is confident that the market for Li-ion batteries will grow due to large energy storage installations and the automotive sector. The Gigafactory alone will produce more storage capacity than the consumer market counts today.
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“When the battery for own use will be cheaper, this technology can be quite a serious challenge for the classic model of utilities.”

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz praises Tesla’s energy storage device for the home, but believes that the cost of production still needs to be reduced to make this technology viable in the future.
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