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in reply to kbal

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.

in reply to FunkyCheese

The typical hybrid is still 100% powered by fossil fuels. The main thing they've done for us is demonstrate the Jevons Paradox.
in reply to kbal

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.
in reply to realitista

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.

in reply to Midnitte

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.
in reply to FunkyCheese

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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