| ▲ | toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | |||||||
1 in 4 vehicles sold globally last year were EVs, and they are >50% of the monthly sales in China, the largest market in the world. EVs are mostly solved, even though they will continue to rapidly improve, both range and charging infrastructure. Norway is at ~100% monthly EV sales, other countries will get there eventually. Importantly, we should expect to go faster as EV sales reach a point where combustion sales have declined to a level where they can no longer support combustion vehicle manufacturers as a going concern. Peak global combustion auto sales occurred in 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459145 (citations) | ||||||||
| ▲ | storus 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
The trend is clear but right now they aren't able to replace ICE cars due to what I mentioned above. Either they lack range/recharging convenience or they don't but are too expensive. They need a few more years of scaling or EU to stop penalizing Chinese EVs. | ||||||||
| ▲ | nomel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
That 25% is including ICE. From the reference: > “Electric cars” include battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles | ||||||||
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