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years. Take the example of<br />
the Energica bike. The road<br />
version has been on the market<br />
for two years and with<br />
the same battery pack they<br />
had two years ago they have<br />
nearly doubled the energy.<br />
The car industry has been<br />
making great progress and<br />
you have a constant evolution<br />
of 8% per year for the<br />
last ten years in the energy<br />
density of a battery. Let’s<br />
imagine if that was money in<br />
a bank: you’d be very happy!<br />
I read an article recently<br />
about Toyota and they are<br />
the masters of hybrid cars<br />
but they have yet to bring a<br />
full electric model to market.<br />
They are saying in 2020-21<br />
they will come with a breakthrough<br />
technology that<br />
nobody has. Normally Toyota<br />
is not the kind of carmaker to<br />
claim things that they cannot<br />
sell or prove. So in twothree<br />
years time if they come<br />
with a breakthrough then in<br />
a few more years the others<br />
will have come up with the<br />
same thing. If you go to the<br />
internet and see what is in<br />
research labs now when it<br />
comes to battery technology<br />
then it is really different from<br />
what we can have. We can<br />
use technology that it really<br />
up to date but it is not [at the<br />
level of] a lab!
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