Soaring EV sales can spark the green revolution we so desperately need
EVs sold in unprecedented numbers in 2022, reflecting a growing trend that is good news for the planet.
Obviously, I am referring to fully electric cars, not the hybrid fakes manufacturers continue making so they can profit from their polluting technology, and which some governments incentivize, ignoring the fact that hybrids mostly run on their internal combustion engines; they should be prosecuted for misleading advertising.
How has the world evolved in 2022? Sales of electric vehicles have exploded with more than ten and a half million units, a growth of 60%. Of course, this is still small compared to the more than 65 million units sold in total in the world, but we must frame this tremendous growth within the context of a global downturn in car sales.
Electric vehicles now account for more than 13% of the total world market, among them some of the world’s largest, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, France and, above all, China, the world’s biggest and where, for some time now, electric vehicles have not been the future but the present: one in four vehicles sold is electric, and sales have doubled in one year.
This growth has meant a saving of 1.7 million barrels of oil, a 3.8% drop in demand, and above all, a saving of 150 million tons of…
