Do you know who that YouTube guy would be? Because I reckon they are likely a kook, given that the actual Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders collects data that will be much more accurate and publishes it each month, eg:
That’s about the US market, which is detached almost completely from the rest of the world, thanks to the BubbaBlower
Not just Africa (and more on that here: https://ember-energy.org/lates...), but also Pakistan and many other places in SE Asia. Cheap panels and storage plus shitty grids is one heckuva structure to incentivise the rollout of decentralised power.
The point is that guy is sometimes a gender-neutral term. Eg “you guys” is sometimes used to refer to a group of girls or women.
People on Slashdot seem incapable of understanding that language continually evolves and that English has never been rigid with its rules anyway.
Solar is used in subSaharan Africa for a bit of light, charging mobile devices, possibly a fan or refrigeration. The loads are much smaller than in the developed world. And fires are going to decrease, not increase, because cooking fires and lighting fires are very frequent in non-electrified households.
Over exaggerate much? Installing solar panels to power individual homes doesn't even come close to the "most ambitious infrastructure project in human history".
It may not be for you Mr Rich Westerner. But you come from a world where shared pooled resources optimised the delivery of infrastructure. That is far less ambitious than tens of millions of people working to build their own.
Maybe building a railroad across an entire continent
The entire railroad industry during construction of the railroad employed only a small fraction of the people compared to what is being discussed in TFA.
or building power plants and distribution systems to provide power to a billion people...
Power plants are lucky to be the work of a workforce more than a couple of thousand people strong. It's not ambitious or difficult in the slightest, even the first ones. You're looking at this from the completely wrong angle. The ambition here is related not to how it gets power to people, but rather how it does so given the insane inefficiency of everyone doing it themselves. Building one powerplant is easy. Building 10s of million tiny ones... that's an ambitious project.
UK market dynamics have shifted significantly in the last couple of years, in the direction of better choices and incentives:
- New tax breaks
- New purchase incentives
- Wider choice of superminis (R5, Inster, Spring, etc), smaller SUVs (EV2 etc), and other cars at a lower price point than before
- Wider choice of premium EVs from European OEMs, eg BMW’s seemingly endless models, the new CLA, etc
- Entry of Chinese-branded EVs such as BYD, Xpeng, etc (in addition to Chinese-owned such as MG etc)
- Continued expansion of the charger network and much wider adoption of contactless
The result is that 37k EVs were sold in October vs 64k petrol cars, ie 58% of the size of the petrol segment. A year ago it was 30k EVs and 73k petrol, ie 41%. That’s a pretty rapid pace of change, and it will clearly continue apace.
The correct answer exists between your post and the GP's. Yes some regulation is important, like the ones you list. In other cases it's just completely pointless bullshit. My example (not America, so be happy you aren't the only special ones) we had dormers installed. The one on the front roof required council permit approval. They insisted the dormers have white frames and rejected our desire to make it in anthracite on the basis that both our neighbours are white and wanting a "consistent look". They only looked at the houses either side of us. The rest of the street is a fucking rainbow already. It is *less* consistent now that there are three houses in a row with the same colour façade *** just on the dormers.
Please don't dismiss the GP's complaints are irrelevant. There are really very many rules which are just outright silly to EVERYONE.
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. It wasn't ugly IMO, but what it was
Concord was a fine game. It may even have been a roaring success had the others not come long before, but as it is it just had nothing to offer anyone.
There’s a literal stacked column chart showing the absolute numbers of EV sales in the article, month by month, from Jan 24 to Oct 25. If you want more detail, you’d have to pay Rho Motion for the actual analytical report.
Do you think that the conclusions are somehow inaccurate and that EV sales aren’t growing? Because they clearly are, both in terms of absolute numbers and percentages.
Also, the significance of fleet/business vs private sales varies by market. In the UK, there are tax breaks that mean employees can buy EVs via their employer at advantageous rates. These are, in practice, private sales — individuals choose the cars they want to buy, and the cars are not required to be used for business purposes, for example — but they are counted as fleet sales.
The only fact presented is that someone doesn't understand what the article is about, and how insignificant the USA is in total number of *global* EV sales.
This is one of the worst articles I've read on here for a long time.
Don't lie you didn't read it.
How many ICE vehicles were sold?
The numbers are linked in the article.
How many EV's were sold?
The numbers are in the article and summary.
Numbers, not fucking percentages.
The article is about growth / decline, percentages show that. The percentages are linked to the numbers.
When those numbers are shown: how many were business/fleet?
Who cares? A vehicle is a vehicle. I don't give a shit *why* a vehicle is driven or who owns it.
I like your username. I'd be shaking my fist at myself if I comprehended what was said as poorly as you just did.
If by next year EV sales in the US haven't tanked
This article is not about the USA. Trump's hateboner for anything progressive won't stop the rest of the world from adopting new tech.
The actual numbers are from the first three quarters when incentives were still available.
Incentives are available all over the world. These are world wide numbers. The USA isn't moving the dial much here.
The actual numbers are from the first three quarters when incentives were still available. The recent reports have been that sales have dived
Stop gaslighting. There were plenty of articles saying EV sales were declining even in April.
There is simply no point in trying to decipher what is real here. Its basically industry propaganda.
There's no propaganda, there's just numbers. You can read them how you want, you posted it yourself. It's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Interpret the statistics yourself, the numbers are there for you.
Do you often reject reality to live in your made up fantasy? I mean I am asking because you legitimately just made a post that said everything is actually wrong and made up an alternative.
Your code should be more efficient!
