Kames Capital
Disruption through Clean Energy: Electromobility
November 2018
Craig Bonthron – Investment Manager
Electric vehicles don’t look good
Source: Company data. For illustrative purposes only.
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There is a lack of choice
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Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
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Electric vehicles have poor performance
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
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New Tesla
Roadster
$200,000
0-60mph
1.9 seconds
Tesla vs Bugatti
Source: Tesla and Buggati. For illustrative purposes only.
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Tesla Roadster
Bugatti Chiron
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Range of popular Electric Vehicles
Affordable approx. $30k
Electric vehicles do not have enough range
Source: fleetcarma.com. For illustrative purposes only. Note: in chart green depicts good range at an affordable price.
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Battery range will decline over time
Source: Berenberg. For illustrative purposes only.
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Tesla actively cooled batteries retain
90% of their charge over 250k km
Nissan Leaf appears to have a steeper
decline without active cooling
Capacity retention affected by battery management
Electric vehicles are not safe
Source: Robert W. Baird; NHTSA Ratings. For illustrative purposes only.
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Tesla All vehicles (United States)
Likelihood of a vehicle fire (estimate)
Overall rating Frontal crash Side crash Rollover
Model S 5 star 5 star 5 star 5 star
Model X 5 star 5 star 5 star 5 star
BMW 5 Series 5 star 4 star 5 star 5 star
Audi Q5 4 star 4 star 5 star 4 star
Cadillac Escalade 4 star 4 star 5 star 4 star
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% of single journeys <25miles, UK (UK DfT 2014)
% of daily drive patterns<50 km, key EU countries*
(EU JRC 2012)
% of daily drive patterns<65km, Italy (EU JRC
2015)
I don’t want to wait at a charging station for hours
Source: BoA Merrill Lynch. *France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK. For illustrative purposes only.
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Most car journeys and daily distances are very short Frequency distribution of daily driving distance, Germany, 2008
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It still takes too long to charge
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Source: CLSA U, The Future of Li-ion Battery Technology
Charging time vs driving distance by charger type
In a survey 57% of households had
access to off street parking in the UK
What if you don’t have a driveway
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Source: National Grid
Battery costs don’t come down fast enough
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Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Lithium-ion battery pack prices
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Electric vehicle vs ICE3-yr total cost of ownership
Old EV cost curve Old ICE cost curve
► Electric vehicles get cheap
– Economies of scale
– Waste reduction
– Closer supply chain
– Vertical integration
– Process optimisation
► Combustion vehicles get expensive
– Taxes
– Emissions regulations
– Residual values
– Maintenance costs
– Insurance
Electric vehicles are still too expensive
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Kames estimates
2024
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Electric vehicle vs ICE3-yr total cost of ownership
Current EV cost curve Current ICE cost curve
► Electric vehicles get cheap
– Economies of scale
– Waste reduction
– Closer supply chain
– Vertical integration
– Process optimisation
► Combustion vehicles get expensive
– Taxes
– Emissions regulations
– Residual values
– Maintenance costs
– Insurance
Electric vehicles are still too expensive
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Kames estimates
2020
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
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35,000
40,000
2016 2017E 2018E 2019E 2020E 2021E 2022E 2023E 2024E 2025E 2026E
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Electric vehicle vs ICE3-yr total cost of ownership
Future EV cost curve Future ICE cost curve
► Electric vehicles get cheap
– Economies of scale
– Waste reduction
– Closer supply chain
– Vertical integration
– Process optimisation
► Combustion vehicles get expensive
– Taxes
– Emissions regulations
– Residual values
– Maintenance costs
– Insurance
Electric vehicles are still too expensive
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Kames estimates
2019?
There is no demand at the current price point
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Large
Medium
Small
SUV
Tesla Model 3 1st weekend orders
($1k deposits)*
Tesla Model 3 estimated orders*
Top trade in’s Q218
– Toyota Prius
– BMW 3 Series
– Honda Accord
– Honda Civic
– Nissan Leaf
No demand at the current price point
Source: CleanTechnica
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10 top luxury cars in USA (Jan-Sept 2018)
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Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel
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Source: BoA Merrill Lynch. *Based on domestic electricity (Eurostat), diesel and petrol (both fuel-prices-Europe.info) prices, averaged across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK. For illustrative purposes only.
Cost of filling/charging from empty to full* Cost per 100km travelled*
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…and that’s before you account for the cost of this
Electricity prices are also more stable
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Source: Berenberg Thematics; World Energy Council, International Energy Agency, FRED and Edison Electric Institute. Note: CPI Index 1982-84 = 1. For illustrative purposes only.
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Electric vehicles are more expensive to maintain
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Source: Berenberg. For illustrative purposes only. *Servicing cost based on Nissan EV.
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► By 2030 total production of these metals to rise as much as 300%
► 2030 demand is a small fraction of global known reserves
We will run out of resources for batteries
Source: BoA Merrill Lynch. For illustrative purposes only.
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Material2016 EV battery demand
(metric tonnes)
2030 forecast for EV battery
demand (metric tonnes)
BNEF 2030 EV forecast as a
% of 2016 total global
production
BNEF 2030 forecast as a
% of known reserves
Lithium 2,647 104,000 297% 0.74%
Nickel 8,008 328,000 15% 0.42%
Cobalt 2,950 156,000 127% 2.23%
Manganese 1,708 125,000 1% 0.02%
Aluminium 8,275 326,000 1% 0.00%
Copper 7,907 295,000 2% 0.04%
Graphite 22,817 852,000 71% 0.34%
Rising cost of materials will make EVs unaffordable
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
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Production of the batteries is dirty
Wait a minute…are you saying it is dirtier than this?
http://anthonyrobson.biz/CartoonsIndex.html
►North America = 271 tonnes of GHG per 1,000 tonnes of oil produced
►Africa = 210 tonnes of GHG per 1,000 tonnes of oil produced
►Asia/Australia = 199 tonnes of GHG per 1,000 tonnes of oil produced
…than this?
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Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
What about all the battery waste produced?
Source: BoA Merrill Lynch
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‘Recently, American Manganese
announced that it had managed to recover
100% of metals used in lithium-ion
cathodes and could recover 91% of the
lithium from cells.’
We can’t build the infrastructure to cope
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
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We can’t build the infrastructure to cope
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
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We can’t build the infrastructure to cope
Source: Tesla and Google Maps. For illustrative purposes only. Statistic from Electric Vehicle Charging Association’s 2017 State of the Charge report.
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We can’t build the infrastructure to cope
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Source: Visual Capitalist. For illustrative purposes only.
Gigafactory capex Estimated ~150 GWh added in 4 years
► $1.72 trillion oil market value annually
► $3.5 trillion upstream capex since 1994
► $7.9 trillion total oil and gas capex last
20 years
► $63 trillion US debt $20 trillion (8.5%)
The infrastructure will cost too much
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Source: Visual Capitalist. Morgan Stanley, Berenberg and Bernstein historic oil capex estimate. For illustrative purposes only. *Excludes utilities and metals & mining investment.
Investment by source through 2040 ($tr)*
What about the cost of not doing it?
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Source: NASA. For illustrative purposes only.
2017 US hurricane season $100 billion mostly picked up by US tax payers
54% of oil is consumed in transportation >40% of global oil demand on the road
It’s not just cars that use oil
Source: BoA Merrill Lynch. For illustrative purposes only.
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Other12.2%
Power7.1%
Industry7.3%
Construction 7.7%
Chemicals 11.7%
Transport 54.0%
Road42.2%
Other0.8%
Sea5.0%
Air6.0%
Nuclear +20%
Coal
Gas
Solar -72%Wind -47%
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Renewable are too expensive
Source: Lazard estimates. Levelised Cost of Energy (unsubsidised). Primarily relates to North American alternative energy landscape, but reflects broader/global cost declines. Cartoon source: Anthony Robson
http://anthonyrobson.biz/CartoonsIndex.html
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The grid is mostly dirty coal power…what’s the point?
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Source: IEA and WEO. For illustrative purposes only.
IEA solar estimates have been 9% too low every year for 23 years
Sustainable technologies are at adoption tipping points
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Sources: Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Earth Policy Institutes. Kames estimates. For illustrative purposes only.
How much space needed in solar panels to power the world?
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…does the ‘levelised’ cost of coal include this?
Fine…but the grid will be overloaded
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And cars can work as batteries too
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And home charging will take place at night
BoA Merril Lynch
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EV energy consumption vs charging times
I still think adoption will be a slow burn
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance. For illustrative purposes only.
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Comparison of global EV penetration estimates EV penetration estimates: 2017 vs 2016
This is all just hype, it never happens that quickly
Source: BlackRock. For illustrative purposes only.
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Adoption of technology in the US (1900 to present)
Ok…but I think hybrids will ultimately win
Source: Berenberg. For illustrative purposes only.
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Sub-optimal layout due to transmission ‘tunnel’ Wider and longer with no transmission ‘tunnel’
But do electric vehicles make their owners happy?
Source: Consumer reports. For illustrative purposes only.
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Tesla tops 2018 Consumer Report’s customer satisfaction survey
RankBrand
Owner
Satisfaction2018 2017
1 - Tesla 90%
2 - Porsche 85%
3 NA Genesis 81%
4 4 Chrysler 78%
5 2 Audi 76%
6 1 Mazda 76%
7 3 Subaru 76%
8 3 Toyota 76%
9 3 Honda 75%
10 2 Lincoln 75%
Remember, the world will be different in 5 years
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For illustrative purposes only
Cheap renewables Affordable storage
Innovative businessesDeath of fossil fuels and
traditional power networks
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