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Is that before or after the world explodes in flames
I have zero hope for the US to actually bite on EVs. The only reason China has seen such rapid adoption is that, even without incentives and subsidies, EVs are cheaper than ICE vehicles. That’s simply not true in the US yet and won’t be true for at least another few years.
It is happening though. Just not quite as fast as in the EU for example, but the trend is cause for some optimism.
https://insideevs.com/news/657660/us-electric-car-sales-january2023/
75% YoY increase in EVs sold as a percentage of all new light vehicles from 2022 to 2023. It’s still single digits (7.1%) but I expect that number to keep rising. Will be really interesting to see what the figures are next year. Apparently California is already above 20% of new car sales.
This article also has some promising forward looking polling results.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/09/15/ev-tipping-point-electric-poll/
Only 46% of people surveyed preferred a fully gas powered vehicle. That seems like a big shift in public opinion from even 5 years ago.
Sure, but that’s with absolutely gigantic government subsidies even as the prices of EVs are plateauing.
Yeah and oil is majorly subsidized in the US as well.
I’d turn it around. The only reason gas cars are still sold in USA is because the gas is ridiculously cheap.
As much as the nations shifting to renewables will offset, America will still crank out enough coal, oil, and natural gas to charbroil the planet by 2050 anyway.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In its annual World Energy Outlook released on Tuesday, the IEA said peaks in oil, natural gas and coal demand were visible this decade in its scenario based on governments’ current policies - the first time this has happened.
Still, the IEA also said as things stand, demand for fossil fuels is set to remain far too high to keep within reach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“This risks not only worsening climate impacts after a year of record-breaking heat, but also undermining the security of the energy system, which was built for a cooler world with less extreme weather events,” the agency said in a statement.
By 2030, the IEA expects there to be almost 10 times as many electric cars on the road worldwide, and it cited policies supporting clean energy in key markets as weighing on future fossil fuel demand.
For example, the IEA now expects 50% of new U.S. car registrations will be electric in 2030, up from 12% in its outlook two years ago, largely as a result of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act.
An OPEC report earlier this month said calls to stop investments in new oil projects were “misguided” and “could lead to energy and economic chaos.”
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