Chart: EVs are ascendant — and gas cars are past their prime. Sales of gas-only vehicles are down by 31% from their peak, while electric vehicle sales are growing rapidly worldwide. A massive shift has occurred in less than a decade. We’re well past peak internal combustion vehicles.

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1. >EVs are already more popular than fossil-fuel-guzzling vehicles in several places. And I’m not just talking about Norway. In China, the world’s largest EV manufacturer and auto sales market, around 60% of new cars sold this year will be electric. By 2030, the IEA expects that number to hit 80%.

   80% seems likely well before then. Iea predictions are meaningless.

2. If you plan on driving your car for the next 10 to 15 years it’s probably safer to buy an EV these days. It’s hard to predict what the vast infrastructure needed to fuel and repair ICE cars will look like after 15 years of terminally declining revenue. Refineries, filling stations, transmission/radiator/muffler/etc shops aren’t going to stay in business when their profits disappear.

3. A toast to a future without gas cars.

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