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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: 4, Informative) by sigma on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:43AM

    by sigma (1225) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @05:43AM (#173409)

    Can you charge one with solar panels (not run it, obviously, just charge it)? I should be able to get enough power from a solar panel to recharge from the grueling four-mile round trip, half of it downhill, but I don't see anyone selling something like that.

    The Sunswift eVe looks like a possible contender, and the team is aiming to have it road registerable Real Soon Now(tm).

    http://www.sunswift.com/eve/ [sunswift.com]

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