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One Year Later: Electrification Revolution

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #6: Electrification Revolution as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Here's a bit of what I wrote: The massive shift from carbon combustion to electric power is transforming transportation, infrastructure, and energy supply chains. This is not a gradual transition but rather a fundamental rewiring of how power flows through our economy. Some folks have made it a...

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Publish Date2026-08-12
Updated Date2026-09-18
Observed Date2026-08-12
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Observed in Jim Carroll’s archive on August 12, 2026.

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #6: Electrification Revolution as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Here’s a bit of what I wrote: The massive shift from carbon combustion to electric power is transforming transportation, infrastructure, and energy supply chains. This is not a gradual transition but rather a fundamental rewiring of how power flows through our economy. Some folks have made it a…

Source: Megatrends One Year Later – #6: Electrification Revolution – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening.

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TrendsElectrification RevolutionMore of the economy is being reorganized around electricity, storage, renewable generation and software-managed power.IndustriesEnergy & UtilitiesThe grid is shifting from centralized delivery toward a distributed, storage-rich, software-defined energy platform.IndustriesAutomotive & TransportationThe vehicle is becoming a computer, a battery, a data platform and an increasingly autonomous node inside a larger mobility system.IndustriesConstruction & Real EstateThe built environment is becoming intelligent: designed in software, built with increasing automation and operated as a connected, energy-aware system.IndustriesManufacturing & IndustrialManufacturing is becoming an intelligent, adaptive system in which software, robotics, materials science and data increasingly define physical production.DomainsEnergy & EnvironmentElectrification, storage, renewables, grid reinvention and technologies reshaping the economics of energy and climate response.DomainsCities & InfrastructureSmart infrastructure, urban reinvention, resilient systems and the technology reshaping how places are built and operated.

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