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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2015, @09:44AM
My daily commute is two miles.
Have you considered walking that?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday April 21 2015, @01:25PM
There were a few years when my commute was about 1 mile each way, partially through a park. I did walk it a fair amount, when the weather was nice enough.
However, and this I think says something, a lot of people looked at me funny for doing so. By putting one foot in front of the other when I didn't have to, and combining something I had to do (getting to work) with something I would like to do (get some exercise in), I was apparently doing something extremely unexpected. These strike me as the same sort of people that will drive to a gym to walk on a treadmill.
Even when I was relying on public transit to get where I was going, employers tended to see that as extremely unusual or downright subversive. It didn't matter that I would show up on time like clockwork, and log in from home after hours if needed, either, so it wasn't like they thought I was slacking, they just thought it was weird that I would prefer lounging around on a bus for a while at a cost of $60 a month over driving and paying $130 a month for parking.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Funny) by gman003 on Tuesday April 21 2015, @01:33PM
I've seen the way people drive in this city. I'd prefer to have a nice metal cage of protection around me at all times, thank you very much. There's at least three intersections I'd have to go through that regularly cause accidents.