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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday April 22 2015, @08:51AM
Sigh....you DO know that Oz has a vested interest in battery production for electric cars...right? I'd trust what they have to say about as much as the ecig studies paid for by RJ Reynolds. Show me a report from consumer reports or some other third party with ZERO connections to a government? Then we'll talk.
Second the Tesla Roadster? Why don't you give us data about how well the typical Rolls ages. I will bet you my last buck more than 85% if not 90% of Tesla Roadsters are kept in climate buffered garages when not in use, this does NOT in any way, shape, or form, compare to what the average vehicle gets exposed to as most of us? Do not own climate controlled garages. In my area (which is typical of a large swath of the USA) summer temps routinely reach 100F+ and winters will have a month of sub 20f and most of the winter months stay below 42f....if you truly believe in your heart this does not affect Lithium Ion batteries? Then I have a bridge you might be interested in.
Why don't you show us some figures of the battery life of the hybrids, after all they've been out longer than Tesla Roadsters and unlike those rich people toys will have been exposed to much more typical weather and temperature variations than any $100K+ sports car.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.