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https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-demand-charts-7d3089c7 https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-demand-c...
by cpursley 3y ago
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-demand-charts-7d3089c7 https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-demand-c...
- sokoloff 3y agoThe legend on that chart says "U.S. electric-vehicle sales, change from a year earlier" That's a plot of the first derivative (which is still positive [+42% at the last measure, meaning for every 100 EVs sold in Nov 2022, there were 142 sold in Nov 2023]) and the slope of that line is a derivative of the first derivative, or a second derivative. tl;dr: EV sales are growing. That rate of growth is slower than it was before.
- rsynnott 3y agoAs I said, the rate of growth is decreasing, but sales are still growing. That article is kinda misleadingly couched, tho (I mean, Murdoch media, what can you expect?), and I can see how people could misread it as saying that sales were actually decreasing.