Electric Vehicle Sales Takes Rocket Ride
I hope readers will check this out: electric vehicle sales are going through the roof. Apparently, the phenomenon I predicted has started to kick in: falling prices, better range, and lots of word of mouth from really ecstatic customers.
Now, of course, the game is to get rid of coal as the answer to the question: what happens when we put an incremental load on the grid in the middle of the night?
Craig,
Your source states that 67,200 EV’s have been sold this year, but that number is a worldwide total sales figure.
Total worldwide sales of ICE’s are north of 60 million thus far this year… so roughly one EV is sold for every 1000 ICEV’s. I don’t think you’ve gotten enough penetration to confirm that this will be anything but an extreme niche.
We agree on the coal sourced electricity, of course. But I’m sure you’ve noticed that we’ve seen coal usage increase 7% YOY when comparing 2012 to 2013… We’re not going to see coal removed from the grid anytime soon, which means that EV’s won’t be as clean as ICE’s anytime soon.
*shrug*
For what it’s worth, I would really like to be wrong here (concerning the near-term emissions profile of EV’s), but I don’t believe I am.