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.
kbal@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they've done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks 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.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks 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.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah I would never buy one that wasn’t plug in. And the size of my city, Prague, is a lot more conducive to the range of a plug in hybrid than the average American city might be.