These Countries Embrace E.V.s to Avoid Oil Price Shocks (www.nytimes.com)

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People in Costa Rica and other Latin American, Asian and African countries are increasingly buying electric vehicles to avoid spiking fuel prices.

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 months ago

"The West" is a pretty bad category in this case. Germany had 66%, France 69% and Italy 72% growth in EV sales in the same period. The US saw a decline in sales though and from what was already a lower base.

[-] ursus262@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

Let us hope we don't end up with a Reform govt. in the UK. That would be disasterous for EV adoption in the UK

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