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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 21 2015, @01:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the electrify-me dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:08AM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:08AM (#173373) Journal

    On the North Shore of Vancouver we're positively awash in damned Teslas... or at least I see three or four every day.

    As far as I can tell (and one is owned by a client) they actually are daily drivers, not just eco-ego-bling.

    (The truly trashy are buying Ferraris, Lambos, and Porsches as their teen-aged drivers' first car, and tacking "L" stickers on the back.)

    (I suspect that driving a Tesla to high school work be totally uncool.)

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  • (Score: 2) by everdred on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:09PM

    by everdred (110) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:09PM (#173543) Journal

    What is the L for?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by TK on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:25PM

      by TK (2760) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:25PM (#173588)

      It's a decal that indicates a student driver.

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday April 21 2015, @11:15PM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 21 2015, @11:15PM (#173738) Journal

      L is for ‘Learner’ aka L-Plate [wikipedia.org].

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