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Not sure how much coverage this has actually received but with US, China and India ratifying the Paris Agreement last week it means the terms have now been agreed and the world is set on a path to make some big changes and share technology and ideas to reduce global emissions by 22% by 2030.
http://time.com/4519895/paris-agreement-ratification-european-union/?iid=sr-link3

Notice how that 2030 date is likely now to come up time and time again with regards to government target dates. The battery tech is there now and its just a matter for governments to calmly plot out their switch over and consider all the legislative and infrastructure changes that need to be made.

US election has also finally now turned a bit of attention to climate change with the Democrats wheeling out Al Gore in an effort to turn the last few weeks into a more positive message about what kinds of things the Dems might actually be able to accomplish post-Republican control.
http://time.com/4527086/hillary-clinton-al-gore-climate-change-florida/

Democrats could even take the House and Senate and with that they could finally push through Obama's Clean Power Act.
Coal is already being left behind. Even if Trump pulled off the impossible turnaround from his historically unwinnable low poll results, he would be fairly powerless to stop the momentum created by the Paris Agreement.

Every US auto manufacturer already offers an electric vehicle option. It would be good to see Hillary put a bit of further momentum behind this change over. Auto manufacturing is a big US industry sector that has been doing well with employment, adding 250k jobs in the last 6 years.

Something else I find interesting -
another mate of mine took a look inside Mercedes' new EV drive train and discovered that the gear box (or whatever its called in an EV) is made by Tesla.  Are these big German auto companies in such a head-long rush to get these new models out that they don't mind outsourcing this stuff, that you'd normally expect them to have developed for themselves, from Tesla? Or is Tesla that good already?

I think its indicative of the mass changes that are coming to EV manufacture. The EV drive train is so perfect modular and simplified that the manufacturers are going to save a great deal of money in their car plants. All the attention can go on the advancing the battery tech, the computing power behind the delivery of that power and navigation aids,  and designing cars that no longer need engine bays and will get better looking, smarter and safer, and integrate better with our lives.

There was an article posted today on Caltex's plans for the EV future. Even they realise that the party is over for the Gas Giants and they can not afford to be seen to be left behind. We've already seen the big French oil company TOTAL invest $1b in lithium by buying a battery plant.
Now its time for the big oil companies to pivot to lithium or lose.
One odd little down-ramp in the article said (they couldn't resist) that autonomous vehicles are still 50 years off. Its patently obvious that Tesla are very very close already. And this progress in a matter of a couple of years by a comparatively tiny company that has no history in vehicles. 50 years?
Who would like to take a stab at how far this tech will have come in 50 years?

The next big step for EVs will be to accomplish clean aviation. And I doubt we'll be waiting anywhere near 50 years for that.