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Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by willvarfar »

dmitrygr wrote: post #75
diego_moita wrote: post #25

I have an EV (Kia Niro EV 2024). I don't want ever to go back to gas. Reasons: * the driving experience is just much, much better: punch & acceleration, stability, quietness, etc. * if you charge at home it is a lot cheaper than gas * it is so easy to "fuel": you plug it in when you arrive home and unplug the next morning Edit: also, after I installed solar cells at home, I drive almost for free!

Hertz forced me to take a Kia Niro EV as my rental. "We have no other vehicles left, it is a higher class vehicle than the compact you reserved". Like hell it was! Never again! I had plans that involved driving 8 hours each way. Electrify America chargers were all broken. Luckily, CircleK chargers "worked", slowly. An hour and 30 min to go from 10% to 90%. Had to charge twice each way. Time I will never get back. Aft…

Yeap, EVs are great when you can charge at home and your journeys are all short enough to return home each night to recharge.

This is what I do. Love it. Never ever going back to ICE.

Those very few times I have to make longer journeys and need to charge? Have found a few fast chargers on routes I take that I try and use, but its majorly inconvenient and stressful compared to ICE. A big downside.

So great for being our personal car for local journeys. Bad for long journeys.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by [deleted] »

e40 wrote: post #84
whatever1 wrote: post #81

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Nope. Is as horrible as it gets. They silently swing by the pedestrians with over 20mph, many drive drunk or don't know/avoid traffic rules and there is 0 enforcement. And if you get hit by them good luck getting compensated for your hospital bills.

Exactly. They are a scourge. My best friend’s son had facial reconstructive surgery due to a scooter crash and a coworker’s son broke his arm, quite a bad break.

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Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by jeyoo »

imtringued wrote: post #88
kaonwarb wrote: post #54

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TIL "acoustic bike" is a phrase

It's not. It's an unfunny insider joke.

Not even an insider joke, everyone knows what an acoustic and electric guitar is. and funny is subjective, I had a good chuckle and will use the terminology now

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by tpm »

ddxv wrote: post #64
toomuchtodo wrote: post #2

Historical event. It’s all downhill from here. Related: Tracking global data on electric vehicles - https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

Great data, I wish it was updated for 2024. I think that article will come soon given that current data was from February of 2024 (for 2023 data).

I follow this. Might not be entirely correct for some countries but is as up to date as possible:

https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by gfarah »

SoftTalker wrote: post #70
gfarah wrote: post #65

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ICE vs EV difference is negligible compared to 18 wheelers and alike on road strain.

And 18 wheelers pay a lot more road tax than passenger cars do.

It's hard to say, considering studies attribute 50% to 98% of road wear to them.

Re: Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

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Post by varelse »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #60
jppope wrote: post #27

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I feel most people still don't realize that China is facing a demographic crisis. If their demographics matched the United States sure, but its unlikely china will be leading many of these future technological situations. Don't take me the wrong way, they have a great opportunity in front of them but just the resources required to take care of their elderly is going to suck up a pretty hefty amount of resources.

More industrial robots are built and sold in China than anywhere else in the world. This is an intentional choice, the government knows their working age population is shrinking. They will race to automation before their demographic dividend is finished paying out. To note, the US has no robotics foundries, and already is experiencing labor shortages today. https://itif.org/publications/2024/03/11/how-innovative-is-c…

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