Re:Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped (2020)
by hattmall on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @01:04AM
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That's not including the manufacture of the PV and extraction of components to make it, or shipping times, etc, is it?
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Re:Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped (2020)
by femto on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:16AM
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No. That's all done in a factory off-site, so I didn't consider it as part of the deployment. I'd argue that scaling a (centralised) factory is easier that scaling deployment.
According to Google 178 GW of solar modules was produced in 2020, which is 487 MW/day and capacity is growing exponentially, so production of modules probably won't be a bottleneck going forward.