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02-01-2017 08:52 AM |
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Originally Posted by trollbait
(Post 192745)
At peak popularity, hybrids were around 3% of new sales, and diesels at 1%. If plug in sales growth continues, they should surpass the diesels next year.
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It took 13 years for the nearly 100% horse-to-automobile conversion. It would be interesting to see if today's ICE-to-EV conversion patterns the same early horse-to-automobile adoption curve.
Interestingly, this article contradicts the 13 year conversion claim...
"Then along came the combustion engine. But it took the automobile and tractor nearly 50 years to dislodge the horse from farms, public transport and wagon delivery systems throughout North America."
"Robert Thurston, a U.S. steam engine expert, opined in 1894, no less, that horses are not only "self-feeding, self-controlling, self-maintaining and self-reproducing, but they are far more economical in the energy they are able to develop from a given weight of fuel material, than any other existing form of motor."
https://thetyee.ca/News/2013/03/06/H...ung-Big-Shift/
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