Electric vehicles to go from 11 million to 145 million in nine years, says IEA
By Jillian Ambrose | May 1, 2021
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Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The number of electric cars, vans, trucks, and buses on the world’s roads is on course to increase from 11 million vehicles to 145 million by the end of the decade, which could wipe out demand for millions of barrels of oil every day.
And there could be even more electric vehicles on the road by 2030 if policymakers were to give them a jumpstart; a newly released report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found that there could be as many as 230 million electric vehicles worldwide by 2030 if governments agreed to accelerate their efforts to encourage production of the low-carbon vehicles—vital to staying within the global climate target.
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/electric-vehicles-to-go-from-11-million-to-145-million-in-nine-years-says-iea/
