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Electric vehicles are set to take over internal combustion engines due to lower cost, decarbonization, and the fact that they can be sustainably powered. Typical diesel vans cost €0.09/km but using grid-charged electric vans costs €0.05/km.

Net present-value (NPV) is the current worth of a future sum of money or stream of cash flows given a specified rate of return. It is a great tool to analyse the profitability of an investment independent of different lifetimes and account for inflation and degradation – two of the biggest impacts on profitability.

The amount of energy that the battery stores and releases is measured in kWh and is called throughput and is useful to compare the practical cost of electricity between different models of energy storage.

Analyzing the financial study of energy storage is an enormous task and contains significant risk. Solar panels have been demonstrated to perform reliably for decades and operate relatively simply with a one-directional flow of energy.