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Symbiote 2 hours ago

25% of oil production is for cars

16% for trucks and buses

7% for aviation

4% for shipping

2% for rail and domestic waterways

25% + a chunk of the 16% (city buses, shorter distance or smaller trucks, etc) is a good amount.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/307194/top-oil-consuming...

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soco 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean a good amount of the 46% consumed by road transports. So my napkin says, when we all switch to driving EV the oil demand will drop by 15%. It's something for sure, but not overly dramatic (to me).

	▲	realityking 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Trucks and buses are starting to be electrified as well. Some boating as well but that‘s a rounding error.
	▲	toomuchtodo 3 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Every 24 months of EV production in China destroys 1 million barrels a day of global oil demand, as of this comment, at current rates of EV production. Total annual light vehicle sales are ~90M units. Globally, over 1-in-5 (22%) of new cars sold were electric in 2024. This share was 92% in Norway, and in China, it was almost 50%. In 2025, it was 1-in-4 (25%). The world has 20-30M units/year of EV manufacturing capacity. Like bankruptcy, the change happens slowly, and then all of a sudden. https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales