There's really no need to recycle this misleading headline forever, they're not in short supply.
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.
The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they've done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.
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.
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.
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.
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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