Surge in Electrical Vehicle Sales – Swannells – Haulage Companies in Cambridgeshire

The number of electric cars in the world accelerated past the two million mark last year, as prices fell and manufacturers launched new models.

Back in 2005, the number of battery-powered vehicles were in the hundreds globally. Ten years later, in 2015, there were one million and in 2016 sales jumped 60%.

Europe, the US and China accounted for more than 90% of electric vehicle sales last year, with China having the most amount of electric cars out of the three, according to research by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

In some European countries, electric cars have become so popular in the last year that they are taking significant market share from petrol and diesel cars. In normal, almost a third of new cars sold are electric, the higher proportion in the world, followed by 6.4% in the Netherlands and 3.4% in Sweden.

Whilst the UK is a way behind in terms of annual figures, new figures show that in May a record 4.4% of new cars sold were hybrids or pure electric models. The UK government launches a scheme back in 2011 to help encourage people to buy electrical cars, since the scheme launched, over 100,000 electric cars have been sold under it.

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The growth globally indicated a ‘“rapid market evolution” in electric cars, however, they still only make up 0.2% of all passenger cars, a figure that the IEA were eager to point out.

Clean vehicles director at the Brussels-based Transport and Environment group, Greg Archer, said: “The rapid rise in electric vehicle sales is a consumer-driven phenomenon rather than being down to the efforts of suppliers.”

Longer battery ranges, more charging ports and lower costs are responsible for the surge in demand of electric cars, he went on to say.

Worldwide, the IEA found there were 2.3 million charging points, although public ones were outnumbered six to one, suggesting that most drivers were recharging their batteries at home.

The IEA estimates there will be around 140 million electric cars on the road by 2030 if countries continue to meet the Paris climate deal’s goal of avoiding dangerous temperature rises.

Electric Haulage? – Swannells Transport – Haulage Companies in Cambridgeshire

One popular brand of electrical cars is Tesla, they have recently said that they are working on making an electrical lorry that can be used for haulage and transportation with the hope that it will be on the roads by 2019.

Could the future of haulage be electrical?

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