If you would ask me where the technological disruptions in mobility and energy might take us in the next ten years, i would recommend you to listen to @tonyseba's speech from a little while ago: https://lnkd.in/dQQHBeJ 

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Tony makes radical predictions on the one hand, on the other hand he has made astonishingly correct predictions since 2010, e.g. regarding price curves of battery storage, solar installations, electric vehicle adoption etc. You find his old talks on his youtube channel.

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Back then people did not take him seriously and called him crazy. What do you think of his 2030 predictions?

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In general i agree with Tony that if price developments continue, markets will shift no matter what, also in countries where governments don't subsidize clean tech. But he is also addressing investors who are mainly concerned about their return on invest in clean tech (4/3)

and who might not care about how fast we can reduce emissions. So I actually don't think that only waiting for technology disruption will be the best solution in the case of EVs. Governments can still accelerate these developments. (5/3)

Through my work for our startup http://ladestationplanen.de  i know that in Germany most charging stations are at least partially financed with government subsidies, it would be interesting to see how many charging stations we would have today without government intervention. (6/3)

I also advocate internalizing carbon emissions with a higher carbon tax. Especially in other domains i don't see how we solve anything without it. (7/3)

For example, in the EU - thanks to lobbies - we don't even put a tax on kerosene (except the Netherlands and Norway, they do it ) which at least in Germany can make train rides more expensive than flights. Okay, this thread turned out longer than originally intended (8/3)