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EVs Only Displaced 2 Days Worth of Gas Consumption Over the Last Decade
Story by Erin Marquis • Yesterday 4:30 PM
 

 
The lab comes at you with some interesting and ultimately depressing numbers. While EVs have grown in popularity since 2010, they still only represent four percent of the market at the end of 2021. Americans bought 2.1 million plug-in vehicles, including 1.3 million battery EVs, in the last decade.

Globally, EVs are selling even better, with 26 million predicted to be roaming international roads by year’s end, according to experts. Within the U.S., only 12 states are really carrying EV adoption forward, with 38.9 percent of all American EVs being registered in California. Right now, EVs make up one percent of all vehicles on the road, but have only reduced gasoline consumption half a percent thanks to dropping PH

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Re: EVs Only Displaced 2 Days Worth of Gas Consumption Over the Last Decade
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2022, 02:08:02 pm »
They haven't done anything other than move the "fossil" fuel consumption from one place to another.
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