Global Tipping Points: Electric Vehicles
Professor Tim Lenton, Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, believes one of the positive tipping points of the current moment is the transition from petrol to electric vehicles.
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- Production Year 2023
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00:00:07 - 00:03:10 One of the most striking positive tipping points that’s already\n00:03:10 - 00:08:04 underway is the switch from petrol or diesel cars to electric vehicles\n00:08:04 - 00:12:14 This tipping point is going global because all the time, the more batteries\n00:12:14 - 00:16:15 that get made for electric vehicles, the cheaper the next battery gets to make\n00:16:15 - 00:19:11 and the cheaper the next electric vehicle becomes\n00:19:11 - 00:21:07 and that means market by market\n00:21:07 - 00:22:14 electric vehicles are becoming\n00:22:14 - 00:25:06 not just the better technology, but the cheapest one\n00:25:06 - 00:29:04 and people are therefore taking that technology up\n00:29:04 - 00:33:19 and that's a big deal because road transport is around 12%\n00:33:19 - 00:38:13 of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and at least 8% is just car driving
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