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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 FatPhil on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:56PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:56PM (#173565) Homepage
    The upside of biking in snow is that you push yourself extra hard, and then the hot shower when you get to work is heavenly. But I'd only do that once a week.
    The upside of walking 3km to work, if you're not a morning person, is that you get to both wake up *and* relax on the way.

    But YMMV.
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  • (Score: 2) by gman003 on Tuesday April 21 2015, @04:40PM

    by gman003 (4155) on Tuesday April 21 2015, @04:40PM (#173580)

    Yeah, there's no shower at work, which is also part of the problem.