Here's a twist to the usual range anxiety story. From a writer on
medium.com
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/the-great-role-reversal-why-range-anxiety-is-now-a-petrol-problem-1c265a1d318a
...
Take Norway, where almost 90% of new cars sold in 2024 were fully
electric, and the government assumes that petrol and diesel sales will
fall to practically zero as of this year. What matters is not only the
share of sales, but how that translates into litres of fuel: the
country’s official statistics show falls of as much as 9% year-on-year
in a single month, and a downward trend that accelerates as the
combustion fleet goes electric. Medium term: every year an additional
percentage of combustion cars disappear from the roads, and with them
litres of petrol and diesel sold. The petrol station business, which was
already getting by on very tight margins, enters a spiral of declining
volume, price increases to compensate and, finally, closures. This is
the oil death spiral some analysts are predicting: less demand, less
profitability, more stranded assets.
...
The question, therefore, is not whether electric cars are “better” than
combustion engines (cleaner, faster, quieter and cheaper to maintain),
but when the anxiety will be completely reversed. At what point will
finding a pump be harder than a charger? In cities like Shenzhen, where
there are already more fast-charging stations than petrol stations, or
in Norway, where virtually no one buys combustion cars anymore, that
tipping point may be much closer than we think.
...
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Links are available to reference articles, let me know if you are
interested and I can copy them out of the article.
Peri
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