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If you look at the last decade, gas consumption has been going up even if the share of electric vehicle has been going up. Why? Because people with ice vehicle
by jeromegv 4y ago
If you look at the last decade, gas consumption has been going up even if the share of electric vehicle has been going up.
Why?
Because people with ice vehicles have been buying suv and pickups in higher percentage and driving more. So the average personal “car” consumption is up.
I’m not as gloomy. I can acknowledge progress. But when it comes to cars, it’s been worse, not better. But at least now the technology is better and can hope for the curve to finally invert itself.
- _ea1k 4y agoWeird, I thought it was because gas cars (EDIT: This should say electric cars) only just recently approached 4% of total sales and are still under 1% of the cars on the road. Normal growth is enough to explain why that hasn't (yet) resulted in a net decrease. If the growth rate continues at 50+%, that will change in about 5 years, though.
- hihihihi1234 4y agoWhat? You meant to write "electric cars" in your first sentence, right?
- _ea1k 4y agoYes, I definitely did. Monday brain, I guess.
- Unbeliever69 4y agoJevon's Paradox - learned a lot reading The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- guerrilla 4y agoThanks. I was trying to remember the name of that. Highly relevant and likely explanatory for at least some of what's going on. > In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use increases its demand, negating the efficiency gains.