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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg P and L Podcast. I'm Pim

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Speaker 1: Now we want to turn to electric cars and specifically

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Speaker 1: h Salim Morsey, Advanced Transport analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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Speaker 1: There's a new forecast coming out or that has come out.

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Speaker 1: I beg your pardon and sle maybe you could go

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Speaker 1: ahead and tell us the genesis of this report and

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Speaker 1: when do you think we'll all be driving electric cars? Hi, Pim,

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Speaker 1: thanks for stending me. So we uh we we took

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Speaker 1: a very basic observation, which is the fact that price

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Speaker 1: of batteries, the price of batteries, the stuff that test

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Speaker 1: seventy in the last six years, and we expect those, uh,

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Speaker 1: those prices to continue down. And so the impacts of

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Speaker 1: this trend are profound and wide ranging. And we think

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Speaker 1: that by about half of all cars sold globally will

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Speaker 1: be electric. In other words, we'll have a plug on them,

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Speaker 1: and we will be phasing out internal combustion engines. The

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Speaker 1: phasing out of internal combustion engines has got to come

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Speaker 1: not only with the lower cost of batteries, but an

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Speaker 1: infrastructure in the country to be able to support that

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Speaker 1: kind of electrification. That's that's absolutely correct. So it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a vertical. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: a tangential requirement for e v s to scale up.

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Speaker 1: And we see a lot of investments today in infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: The one you probably have heard of is the test

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Speaker 1: A supercharger, but many other stakeholders are investing in this,

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Speaker 1: and certainly we we think that there will be sufficient

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Speaker 1: infrastructure to get to a market penetration of over fifty,

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Speaker 1: but our forecast is actually capped because of this hurdle.

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Speaker 1: We think that rural areas uh in the developing world,

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Speaker 1: or or cities without the proper urban infrastructure with multi

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Speaker 1: dwelling units will suffer and as a result, even though

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Speaker 1: the attractiveness of the purchase makes sense, the refueling component,

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Speaker 1: in other words, the charging will still be a hurdle

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Speaker 1: we think in the future, is there a technical obstacle

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Speaker 1: that you can see that would prevent independent charging stations

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Speaker 1: drawing solar power and converting it into battery technology that

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Speaker 1: would then sort of obfuscate the need for this network

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Speaker 1: of delivery and so on. So solar it's certainly a

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Speaker 1: top of mind for many, uh, for for many folks,

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Speaker 1: and stories like Musk that's why I went there exactly exactly. So,

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Speaker 1: so the value proposition that that testa puts forth it

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Speaker 1: is that you know, solar charges their stationary storage which

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Speaker 1: is then used off the grid to charge batteries, that

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Speaker 1: there's some value to that. But remember when we're talking

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Speaker 1: about charging cars, where we're talking about significant amounts of power,

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Speaker 1: and the requirements for the storage and the solar grow

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Speaker 1: exponent exponentially as the car fleet and utilization grows. So

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Speaker 1: if you take one car, maybe that's feasible. If you

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Speaker 1: have a hundred cars charging, you need a lot of

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Speaker 1: solar and you certainly need a lot of batteries to

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Speaker 1: dispense all that energy back into electric cars. What role

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Speaker 1: does the Model three play in all this? Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: you know we're coincidentally our report is coming out the

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Speaker 1: months that Tesla is launching their Model three, and it's

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Speaker 1: certainly their flagship product. You've seen their sales kind of

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Speaker 1: and so it's an important least because it is what

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Speaker 1: we call down market product, is a more affordable product,

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand units a year, it will usher in, you know,

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Speaker 1: are not just some compliance regulatory compliance product, but really

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Speaker 1: uh for which there is a lot of demand. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's a it might be a seminal moment

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Speaker 1: much for sharing some of this information with us. It's

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Speaker 1: a wonderful report. I recommend it to anyone that wants

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Speaker 1: to know about the electric vehicle market and also the

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Speaker 1: hybrid vehicle market. So Lead Morsey is our advanced transport

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Speaker 1: analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Well, you know the

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Speaker 1: Institute for Supply Management. The non Manufacturing index for June

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Speaker 1: rose to fifty seven point four. Now the estimate was

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Speaker 1: above fifty indicate growth. Well, does this make it more

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Speaker 1: difficult for the Federal Reserve to decide when to begin

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Speaker 1: the unwinding of its balance sheet and the timing of

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Speaker 1: interest rate increases? Here to tell us more as Terry Wiseman.

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Speaker 1: He is Global Interest Rates and Currencies Strategist for Macquarie.

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Speaker 1: Terry always a pleasure, Thanks for being here, all right.

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Speaker 1: So you've got the I s M number coming in

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Speaker 1: better than estimated. Uh, you've got the jobs report, the

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Speaker 1: pay the non farm paywall report tomorrow eight thirty. Live

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Speaker 1: here always on Bloomberg. What what do you think is

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Speaker 1: going on in the minds of policymakers. I think what's

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Speaker 1: more important or what is becoming more important PIM is

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Speaker 1: last few years have seen steady job growth. Um, what

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Speaker 1: FED has not moved away from the view that conventional

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Speaker 1: measures of labor market tightness like the youth three unemployment rate,

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Speaker 1: force tightness. And if they believe that, and I think

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Speaker 1: there's no reason for them to not believe that in

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Speaker 1: order to have suggested that they wouldn't believe this UH.

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Speaker 1: It is the case that the unemployment right now, at

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Speaker 1: possible it drops even further with the employment report tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and I actually think this makes the Fed's job easier.

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Speaker 1: To reference what you asked earlier, The feds job will

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Speaker 1: i e. They should be raising rates at these levels,

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Speaker 1: especially levels of the unemployment right there below their long

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Speaker 1: telling you as well. The bond market is not necessary

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at a tenure yield, that's not necessarily

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Speaker 1: this is not something that the Fed normally or would

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Speaker 1: That's right. But I think these companies are looking more

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Speaker 1: So there is a correlation. I mean, I mean, take

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Speaker 1: North Korea has already moved its medium range missiles and

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Speaker 1: be nuclear tip to do a lot of damage. That's correct. UM.

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Speaker 1: And this is the big problem, which is that during

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Speaker 1: East Asia, UM, they also are proliferators, so they have

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Speaker 1: So North Korea is a real menace. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we should invade the North North

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Speaker 1: I mentioned before, but we really should start thinking about

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Speaker 1: North Korea as a kind of problem that um would

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Speaker 1: democratic revolution hopefully, and I think that we're going to

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Speaker 1: hope for that. Eli Lake, Bloomberg View columnists speaking of

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Speaker 1: out the U S policy towards North Korea. This is Bloomberg.

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