Chart: Electric vehicle growth is slowly eating into global oil demand

167 points by Free_Swimming 1 year, 6 months ago on reddit | 8 comments

workingtheories | 1 year, 6 months ago

calculus would be helpful here.  where is the inflection point?

Nowhere because they just made it up. Half that chart is "projected" demand and since less than 2% of cars on the road today are electric worldwide, and all personal transportation worldwide is only 7.5-10% of oil use depending on who's studies you use, the biggest possible dent EV's could have made so far in global oil demand is around .2%. If we assume I'm off substantially in all my numbers (I'm not), and my estimate is an entire order of magnitude wrong, that's still only 2% which wouldn't show up on this chart.

workingtheories | 1 year, 6 months ago

haha yeah, ppl want to believe it's all gonna be a-ok.

Also, the data is '000s bbl/day not millions

Nice to see, even with all the efforts the right is doing to block it. Here in Ohio, my gas guzzling SUV is just $75 to renew my tags. My husband's hybrid SUV is $175 to renew because there's a surcharge for driving an energy efficient vehicle. I remember when we used to get tax credits for these kinds of things.

This is an attack on the well being of not only Ohio but the world's people.

*edit: By "this" I mean the increase in fees on those who are attempting to reduce the damage.

I wonder how much the effect of all the other battery stuff is having. We used to multiple gas weedwackers, blowers, mowers and saws... Now we still have a couple of saws, and one lawnmower that uses gas. We go through a LOT less mixed gas than we did 2-4+ years ago. I'm sure we aren't alone.

But how, when so many Reddit geniuses have demonstrated, through memes, that EV’s burn the same amount of oil as gas cars?