September 2022
Beginner
416 pages
10h 42m
English
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Chapter 14
Ten Countries Leading the Way — and What They’re Doing
IN THIS CHAPTER
Looking to Europe
Checking out the Americas
To infinity — and beyond
Here's a fun fact: According to the International Energy Agency, global electric car registrations grew by 41 percent in 2020 while car sales overall dropped by 16 percent.
Granted, the world experienced a pandemic during that same time frame, but the trend is clear: ICE sales down, EV sales on the rise. The bottom line is that in 2020, this 41 percent rise in EV sales meant that someone drove electric car number 10 million home from a dealership.
The countries described in this chapter are where most of those 10 million EVs are being deployed.
Norway
Norway is absolutely crushing it, electrically speaking, leading the globe in the switch to electric transportation. As reported by the Australian website The Driven (https://thedriven.io), in January of 2022, 83 percent of all new passenger vehicles registered in Norway were electric. And not hybrid electric — fully electric. (One was a hydrogen-powered car, apparently.)
Add the 83 percent of all registrations in January 2022 to previous month’s totals, and roughly 25 percent of ...
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