In five years, the electric vehicle (EV) industry would like to see 40 percent of the world’s drivers piloting EVs.
However, despite tech improvements to lower costs and help EVs drive further, government help—subsidies, boosted infrastructure, and better consumer education—is needed to meet that goal, industry executives said last week at the world’s largest electronics trade show.
The EV executives spoke on Jan. 9 at the Computer Electronics Show—CES 2025—in Las Vegas.
Tina Jeffress, a group manager for energy and sustainability at Panasonic; Sabrina Rathgeber, director of Bosch’s global battery business, and Sujay Sharma, CEO of BP’s Pulse Americas business, weighed in on the future of EV adoption in a panel discussion entitled “Trends in Electronic Car Consumption: Who, What, Where.”…