How much money can you save on fuel by replacing your gas-powered car with an #EV? A lot, according to an analysis from Coltura, which shows that EV drivers in all 50 states enjoyed an average annual savings of $1,200 or $100 per month compared to their gasoline counterparts. Check out the analysis here: https://lnkd.in/gYAqgdxc #transportation #electrification #climate
RMI Carbon-Free Transportation
Transportation Programs
Boulder, Colorado 965 followers
Accelerating a clean, equitable transition to electric transportation
About us
Transportation is vital to every aspect of our lives, connecting people, generating economic opportunity, and providing access to critical goods. It also contributes more climate-warming emissions and air pollution in the U.S. than any other sector, disproportionately impacting the world’s most underserved and vulnerable populations. Electrifying transportation is critical to halt this growth in air pollution, emissions-related illness, and death — and to avoid catastrophic climate change. RMI’s Carbon-Free Transportation team works to accelerate the pace and scale of vehicle electrification in the United States, India, China, and other locations.
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- Transportation Programs
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Boulder, Colorado
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- electric vehicles, EVs, freight, transportation, mobility, electrification, climate, infrastructure, climatechange, EV charging, charging, trucking, hyrdogen, battery, circularity, battery circularity, grid, electric grid, supply chains, and public transportation
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🔋 Attention #EVbattery stakeholders! Join us THIS Thursday, August 22 from 9:30-10:30 am Mountain Time to learn about how we can meet rising demand for battery minerals! RMI research shows that we can virtually eliminate the need for newly mined battery minerals by 2050. In this webinar, authors of RMI’s new report will outline six solutions to address the rising demand for battery minerals through efficiency, innovation, and circularity. Speakers will also discuss how RMI is helping to implement these solutions through its Battery Circular Economy Initiative. Speakers: -Daan Walter, Principal, Strategy Team) -EJ Klock-McCook, Principal, Carbon-Free Transportation Register here: https://lnkd.in/gj5pCQ95 And check out the report here: https://lnkd.in/e2kbTKzk #climate #transportation #batterycircularity #electricvehicles
Webinar - Six Ways to Eliminate the Need for Newly Mined Battery Minerals - RMI
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As the number of laws and regulations designed to accelerate EV adoption continues to grow, it's important that decision makers understand what they do, who needs to comply, and how they can comply. Check out this easy-to-understand overview of state and federal laws and regulations. #electricvehicles #climate #transportation #fleets #etrucks #electrictrucks
Electric Vehicle Regulations and Laws: A Primer for Decision Makers - RMI
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Excited to share that my colleagues have just released GridUp - an exciting new tool for estimating when and where EVs will need to charge, covering the entire US down to the level of individual neighborhoods. - Utility trying to better plan your distribution system? Come take a look. - City planner interested in when/where EVs will need to charge? We got you. - Community advocate looking to understand transportation needs in your neighborhood as more EVs are on the road? We think you'll be interested. Check out the press release (https://lnkd.in/ghzkjZhU) and the tool itself (https://gridup.rmi.org/). Huge shout out to the team that has been hard at work on this! Matt Wilde, Kirill Tchernyshyov, Caitlin Odom, Dave Mullaney, Matt Miccioli, Lynn Daniels, Athindra Venkatraman, Liza Martin
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RMI Carbon-Free Transportation reposted this
The electric vehicle revolution is roaring towards us, but are our power grids prepared to shift gears? Introducing our new tool GridUp: your roadmap to a reliable, carbon-free power system. 👏 We're empowering those at the wheel of infrastructure planning - — utilities, regulators, and policymakers - — with a powerful tool that uses real-world driving and charging data to forecast electricity demands with pinpoint accuracy. This isn't about guesswork anymore. GridUp can help tackle the biggest roadblocks on the EV highway: range anxiety, grid stress, and ensuring everyone has access to a charging pit stop. By making informed decisions today, you can build a power grid that seamlessly supports the EV revolution tomorrow. Let’s get to planning: https://bit.ly/3YsFBIP
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Last week RMI met with representatives from the Indonesian government, including Min. Luhut B Pandjaitan and his team, to discuss how to advance efforts to accelerate #EV adoption, identify opportunities to develop comprehensive policies, increase access to affordable financing, and expand charging infrastructure. Learn more about how Indonesia is poised to become a global leader in transportation electrification in this post from Rizky Fauzianto. #transportation #climate #electricvehicles #EVcharging #charginginfrastructure
Manager | SE Asia | Energy Transition | Project Management | International Development | Sustainability | Partnership
Due to stable economic growth and expanding middle class in Indonesia, the demand for transportation, especially for two- and four-wheelers, are growing. This growth is happening concurrently with decreasing cost and increasing availability of electric vehicles (EVs). Meeting growing demand with EVs represents a significant and attainable opportunity to enhance Indonesia’s energy security, support economic growth, and enable decarbonization priorities. However, despite the aspiring middle class, increasing activity among domestic EV ecosystem (manufacturers, charging companies, and EVs financiers) and Government of Indonesia has enacted an incentive scheme for EVs, the electric two-wheeler sales are projected to be less than 4% by 2025. Following up our extensive research on Indonesia EV and interviews with various private and think-tank stakeholders since early this year, RMI team had the honor to meet with key government actors last week from Min. Luhut B Pandjaitan and his team (CMMIA), Ibu Mari Elka Pangestu (Presidential Special Envoy for Climate Finance and Former World Bank Managing Director and Min. of Trade), MOF - Indonesia Environment Fund (BPDLH), MEMR - ENTREV, and others to discuss several significant barriers facing EV adoption in Indonesia. The discussion also highlighted the opportunity to develop comprehensive policy, enable affordable financing, and expand supportive infrastructure (i.e. charging stations) to help accelerating EV ecosystem transition in the country. With government's commitment and possitive interest from the ecosystem and consumer, RMI team is excited to support this very promising work as one of our key focus geographies for Global South and Carbon-Free Transportation strategy. We hope to conduct an event, in conjunction with Indonesia Sustainable Forum (ISF) in Sept, to identify solutions and strategic next steps to overcome barriers to increase EV adoption through facilitated group discussions (more to come later!). Justin Locke Clay Stranger Wini Rizkiningayu Samhita Shiledar Kelly Carlin Hannah Lindsell Andika Akbar Hermawan #Energy #Transportation #EV #EnergyTransition #Indonesia #ClimateChange #OneRMI
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"Battery minerals are not the new oil, which you buy once, you burn once, and then you lose it. Minerals, you can recycle and reuse. We can set up a completely different economic system on how we power our transport systems. And we're seeing this happening today." RMI's Daan Walter explains how we can meet rising demand for battery minerals on Markham Hislop's Energi Talks podcast. Learn about promising trends and what needs to happen to make it happen here: #climate #transportation #electricvehicles #EVs #EVbatteries #batterycircularity #batteryminerals
Peak battery mineral mining in 10 years
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RMI's new report, "The Battery Mineral Loop: The Path from Extraction to Circularity" shows that by 2050 we can *eliminate* our need for newly mined minerals. How do we get there? EJ Klock-McCook explains in this article. #transportation #electricvehicles #evs #climate #evbatteries #batterycircularity
EV Battery Recycling Can Help Eliminate the US’ Need for Newly Mined Minerals by 2050. Here’s How We Can Make It Happen.
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RMI Carbon-Free Transportation reposted this
Battery minerals are *not* the new oil. Even as battery demand surges, the combined forces of efficiency, innovation, and circularity will drive peak demand for mined minerals within a decade and allow us to reach a net-zero transport system at net-zero mineral demand. These are some of the conclusions from our new report, The Battery Mineral Loop, out today. You can read it via the link below. The implications of our bottom-up modeling are far reaching: ⛏ ♻ Battery mineral mining can be a one-off effort. End-of-life batteries will become the new mineral ore, limiting the need for battery mineral mining in the long term. After using a battery for 10–15 years, its mineral content can be collected and recycled at 90-94%+ efficiency. So improving overall battery and transport system efficiency by 6-10% per decade is enough to offset recycling losses and not require any additional mining. 🏔 ⚖ We won’t have to move mountains. Accelerated progress means we only need to mine a cumulative 125 million tons of battery minerals. This quantity alone can get us to circular battery self-sufficiency. That is 17 times smaller than the amount ofoil we extract and process for road transport *every year*. And, at today’s commodity prices, about 20 times cheaper as well. 🛢 🔋 Countries can move from oil dependence to circular independence. Most economies would grind to a halt if oil imports were to stop. Electric vehicles powered by renewables face no such short-term risk, especially when paired with battery recycling and (re)manufacturing. 🌏 🇨🇳 China leads the battery circularity race to the top. China’s largest battery manufacturer, CATL, expects battery recycling to lead to mineral independence in China by 2042. The West is trying to catch up—as there is still a lot to play for—, while the Global South can benefit from the batteries in their used vehicle imports. With Will Atkinson, Sudeshna Mohanty, Kingsmill Bond, Maria Chiara Gullì and Amory Lovins
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"A strategy focused solely on what cars we drive is incomplete.” - RMI's Anna Zetkulic et al. in the U.S. Department of Transportation's recently released report on #transportation decarbonization. Citing two RMI reports, the document outlines three decarbonization strategies: increasing convenience by making it practical to take fewer or shorter trips, improving efficiency, and transitioning to clean mobility options. #climate
Report on Decarbonizing U.S. Transportation | US Department of Transportation
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