Klaus Froehlich , Head of Engineering News at Research & Development does not expect electric vehicles to represent 10% of the new car market until 2025 at the very earliest. This slow rate of EV expansion pleases Fröhlich, even if environmental lobbyists perhaps desire a quicker ascendance of the zero-emissions technology. He told BMW that internal combustion engines will still be at least a decade and so his company must continue to develop models based on them. Furthermore, while he agrees that power density will increase, he does not believe that battery costs will decline as much as is currently being predicted. Lastly, despite Research & Development featuring in headlines recently for its Autopilot software, Froehlich expects true autonomous driving is at least a decade away.
Klaus Froehlich , Head of Engineering News at Research & Development does not expect electric vehicles to represent 10% of the new car market until 2025 at the very earliest. He told BMW that internal combustion engines will still be at least a decade and so his company must continue to develop models based on them. Furthermore, while he agrees that power density will increase, he does not believe that battery costs will decline as much as is currently being predicted. Lastly, despite Research & Development featuring in headlines recently for its Autopilot software, Froehlich expects true autonomous driving is at least a decade away.