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We've been reading headlines about Tesla, Nissan Leaf, and several other recent arrivals in the EV market the past few years, but the growth curves are starting to look very interesting:
We already wrote about the recent ZSW report that found that the world electric car market was up to 740,000 at the end of 2014. Other cool stats noted there included:
- China saw 54,000 electric cars registered in 2014, a growth of 120%.
- The US grew 69% to hit 290,000 total electric cars, about 39% of all electric cars on the road.
- Japan grew 45% to hit 110,000 total electric cars.
- The overall global electric car market saw a growth of 76%.
However, we missed sharing a big one, but thanks to reve putting it in a headline and a hat tip from Bob Wallace, we’re getting it now. Actually, you just saw it in the title: ~43% of the world’s electric cars were bought in 2014.
Coupled with the ongoing steep drop in the price of solar panels, we are quickly approaching an epochal tipping point in transportation, energy, and many other realms. My family is ready to switch to an EV as soon as a mass market car is available where we are. How about other Soylentils, do you plan to jump to an EV too, or hang on to your ICE?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2015, @02:34AM
I'll be more than happy to drive a mass market, cost effect EV as a daily driver. As long as I can still throw my gas-guzzling ICE racecar on the weekends.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Moru on Tuesday April 21 2015, @07:15AM
You might be pleasantly surprised by the electric car if you never drove one before :-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Tuesday April 21 2015, @08:06AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2015, @09:33PM
I suspect its comparable to how some folks prefer vinyl. Its the imperfections that make it interesting. Electric is too smooth and sterile to provide all the the fun of hundreds of explosions a second and the associated sensory experiences.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 22 2015, @07:27AM
The petrol-heads are right, however, once they're into their power-band. Electric motors have a decreasing torque curve, which means they start losing power once they're more than half-way through the revs, and it's the power that gets them their top speed. (But this is a problem you fix in the gearbox.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday April 21 2015, @12:47PM
You are one strong fellow.