Comment on EVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Time

kbal@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well its sort of true

  The numbers are:

  22.6% electric

  22.5% petrol

  44% hybrid, which of course is both

  But i think the main take away is, electric car sales numbers are going up.

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  • kbal@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they've done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.

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    • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My hybrid only gets filled with gas a few times a year. We plug it in when we get home and it runs almost entirely on electric except for long trips.

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      • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This discrepancy might be due to US perspectives - our “hybrids” (or, at least the cars marketed as hybrids) are by and large driven by fossil fuels.

        Cars like the Prius Prime are oddities here.

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  • locuester@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    electric car sales numbers are going up

    Not necessarily. If this period, more hybrids were sold instead of gas cars over the prior period, it would result in this threshold also being crossed. In addition, less cars over all could be sold.

    To objectively know that more elec were sold you’d have to have the prior month.

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