Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e...
by bobsil1 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @03:03AM
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It’s going to tip a lot faster than that in 2 yrs when EVs are cheaper up front.
Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e...
by philwelch on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:38PM
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New car sales might tip in two years, but that’s a small fraction of cars on the road. The average car on the road is over a decade old.
In fact, if people stop buying non-EV’s entirely, that might eventually slow down EV adoption since existing car owners will be unable to trade in their vehicles to buy EV’s.
The US currently has just one million EV's and over 5.8 million hybrids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_t...) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehicles_in_th...).
I think it's a lot more fair to say that hybrids are a transitional solution. They came out in the 90's and still outnumber EV's on the road over 5-1 today, so I'd say we're in the midst of a 30-50 year transition.