The Tremendous Thrilling Factor Michael Liebreich & I Are Loving These Days

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Michael Liebreich and I’ve loved meals, interviews, and EV adventures collectively a handful of occasions through the years. We linked rather well from the beginning and had nice chats collectively. So, it’s a bit of unsurprising that we’re each in love with basically the identical story proper now.

I do know Michael obsessively follows cleantech information, and I’m in control of ensuring we publish about 90 tales per week on cleantech or associated issues. So, we’re within the behavior of seeing and sharing massive cleantech tales. However then every so often, one thing actually jumps out from the group.

Nissan just lately unveiled the all-new 2026 Nissan LEAF. It’s one other nice choice on the electrical automotive market. Nevertheless it’s additionally rather more than that. Paul Fosse wrote a terrific article on how a lot the Nissan LEAF has improved over the previous 15 years, so I didn’t do a chunk on that myself, nevertheless it’s one of the crucial fascinating and thrilling tales of the yr for me. When Tesla launched the lower-cost Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3, although, I took the chance to write down concerning the quiet revolution that has been occurring. It’s actually not about any of those fashions, however about how battery value has been dropping and batteries have been bettering. It’s about how far we’ve come prior to now decade and a half, nevertheless it’s additionally about the place we’re headed.

So, again to Michael. He just lately posted a really brief article on Substack, “My favorite slide.” The temporary intro to it was: “I’m sitting behind a board assembly in Valencia, shuffling charts for an upcoming keynote, and thought I might share my favorite slide of the second…” Right here’s the slide:

It’s a terrific slide. It reveals that the facility capability of the Nissan LEAF has doubled since its inception, the battery capability has greater than tripled, the charging capability has greater than tripled, the vary has elevated 4 occasions over, and … the price has dropped by about 33%.

That’s wild.

Naturally, Michael needed to take the subsequent step ahead, too. He places out a forecast of the place the Nissan LEAF could possibly be in one other 15 years (or 14 years). May we have now a Nissan LEAF with 500 miles of vary with 375 kW quick charging at a price of simply $25,000? Why not?

Briefly, the revolution is simply getting began.