payback period

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He is not sure how much the project will cost, but is reckoning on a payback period of around five years.
對(duì)于該項(xiàng)工程的造價(jià)他并不確定，但是他指望大約五年的償付期。
ROI is a relatively straightforward investment metric that expresses how much time is required (the payback period) to recover the original investment.
ROI是一個(gè)相對(duì)直接的投資度量，它表達(dá)了收回原始投資需要的時(shí)間（償還期）。
It ignores benefits that may occur after the payback period, and so does not measure longer term profitability.
它忽略了償還期后可能出現(xiàn)的利益，也就是不能度量長(zhǎng)期利潤(rùn)。

While the payback period for some EVs today is too long, we are still in the early days of the industry.
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Since most clean-energy projects have a payback period of more than five years, the system thus fails to encourage green investment.
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One is the payback period, or how long it will take to recoup the higher purchase price by saving on fuel.
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the amount of time it takes to get back the amount of money originally invested in something