Here is another article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-04-20/hyperd..., quote:
> The second reason is that two-wheelers are going electric faster than any other segment of road transport. BNEF’s latest estimates put 2020 electric two-wheeler sales at over 25 million. That’s about 35% of sales globally, far ahead of passenger cars where EVs are still only around 5% of sales.
Although the issue with that statistic is probably because China has banned gas powered scooters (other developing countries are still catching up).
I predict that Electric scooters will long replace gas powered ones in developing countries before EV cars replace ICE cars. It’s kind of an economic no brainer given how cheap they are.
And I bet that the countries with cheap, polluting vehicles are those with lower life expectancy.
“Developing countries” is a broad category, but it’s certainly not the case that they’re free of vehicles except for rich people driving around in expensive cars.