Understanding the EV Landscape

“When people think of electric vehicles, they think of Tesla. But if you want to see

the future of EVs it’s important to look elsewhere.” - Thomas Bartman,

Harvard Business Review

WHY Lithium Batteries? Lithium batteries are seen as the future because:

No memory effect 8 Compact, light, durable 8 5-20 year life span9Readily rechargeable 8

New categories of e-transportation

Personal Transporters Self-balancing products like the Airwheel, InMotion R2, Segway, Solowheel, etc.

Wearable TransportationMake your body the vehicle with products like the Chariot or eXoskeleton Rider.

Want to learn more? Here are some great resources

TOP 3 REASONS FOR EV ADOPTION 1

Cheaper to operate and maintain

1. 2. 3.LSEV: Low-Speed EVBuilt as an alternative passenger vehicle for urban environments

EUV: Electric Utility Vehicle Used to perform work quietly in urban environments

DISRUPTIVE EVs

They’re everywhere!Widespread electric drive applications

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Delta-Q Technologies makes innovative industrial battery charging solutions for the above applications.

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• Economist: Charge of the Lithium Brigade

Quiet and no tailpipe emissions

Quick acceleration and high torque for certain applications

CO2

References1

Pluggedincars.com. “Electric Cars: Pros and Cons”2

International Powered Access Federation. “IPAF reports reveal more than 1.1 million...”3

Navigant Research. “55 Million Electric Motorcycles and Scooters...”4

Research in China. “China low speed electric vehicle industry report, 2014-2017”

5 Harvard Kennedy School, “Leapfrogging or Stalling Out? Electric Vehicles in China”

6 Industrial Truck Association. “United States Factory Shipments 2010-2014”

7 Forbes. “China’s Other Electric Vehicle Industry”

8 Hitachi. “Lithium-Ion Batteries for Hybrid Electric Vehicles”

9 American Chemical Society. “Understanding the Life of Lithium Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles”

1.1MILLION

aerial work platforms are in use around the world,

and more than 500,000 are in the U.S. These include

scissor lifts, boom lifts and hybrid booms.2

467,633electric forklifts shipped in the U.S. from 2010-2014. Of those, 236,282 were larger

“ride-on” machines and 231,351 were motor-driven

pallet trucks. 6

55MILLION

Estimated number of electric motorcycles to be

sold globally from 2014-2023.3

CHINAproduced 30.31 million

electric vehicles in 2013

25.29 milliontwo-wheeled vehicles

4.72 millionthree-wheeled vehicles

302,000low-speed electric vehicles

Break down of the electric vehicles:4

90%of the world’s electric vehicles are made in China, mainly for its domestic market.5

400,000low-speed electric vehicles sold in China, in 20147 ; a 98,000 unit increase from 2013.