Guest satirical rebuttal by David Middleton
Willis’ post on EV’s was very unfair… At least according to some of the comments. So I thought I would post some graphs demonstrating that EV’s aren’t quite so astoundingly unsuccessful.
One of my favorite metrics is Ford F-Series pickup trucks versus electric vehicles. F-Series sales literally crush EV sales… But, EV’s don’t appear to be losing much ground against the F-Series. EV’s are falling further behind F-Series sales at a somewhat slower pace than they were in 2017.
Data Sources: CarSalesBase.com and InsideEVs.com.
2018 sales extrapolated from Q1 2018.
The sum total of US EV sales (all makes and models) has almost caught up with Jeep Wrangler sales…
Make/model sales data from the Wall Street Journal Market Data Center.
The EV market share has literally skyrocketed from 0.4% to 1.3% of US light weight vehicle sales.
US light weight vehicle sales data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
At this blistering pace, EV’s are on track to claiming a 13% market share by the end of the 21st century!
Who said there was no Moore’s Law for batteries?
On top of all of this “good news” for EV’s… This should push the Cobalt Cliff off to the 22nd century!
As usual, any and all sarcasm was purely intentional.