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Electric construction machines can help lower the notoriously high emissions of the construction industry.
eMobility isn’t just about cars BY DAVID HUNT
When it comes to emobility, or electric vehicles, passenger cars get all of the focus and attention. That’s fully understandable; cars are what interest most people, and they are certainly the electric vehicles that we see most often, and in rapidly increasing numbers, on the roads of the UK, Europe and the US. In the UK, recent figures show that nearly ten per cent of all new car sales are BEV. In fact, it is delivery and supply chain issues that hold back BEV 92 |
Issue 04 |
August 2022
(battery electric vehicle) sales. Demand exceeds supply. Battery ‘gigafactories’ are springing up at a rapid rate globally, but they take time to build, even for Tesla. PLANES AND BOATS We saw in the last Discover Cleantech publication, a feature on electric flight. Whilst it may be some years before we see even relatively short-haul commercial flights, the likes of which carriers such as Easyjet and
Ryanair specialise in, some commercial electric flight is far closer than most people think. eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) ‘planes’ are being developed across Europe and the US, and these ‘air taxi’ companies are attracting significant investment. The Vertical Flight Society claims over one billion US Dollars is being invested annually, into the evolution of eVTOL aircraft. Velocopter recently raised another 170 million, bringing their total to 580 million US