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toomuchtodoyesterday at 11:22 PM1 replyview on HN

The TLDR is “Replace your combustion vehicle with an EV if you’re a high mileage driver; a low mileage driver can then buy the combustion vehicle for low mileage use.” An EV sold to someone who drives 1k miles a year is somewhat inefficient at this point of the adoption curve, versus someone who drives 5k-15k miles a year. You want to maximize EV miles traveled to minimize CO2 emissions.

25% of total annual global vehicle sales are already EVs. We’re just arguing timeline to get to 100%. Peak combustion vehicle sales was 2017.

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/09/chinese-ele...

https://www.evinfrastructurenews.com/ev-technology/evs-take-...


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cucumber3732842yesterday at 11:42 PM

Dude, everything you post is borderline propaganda. There's probably a few people who'll keep their 2017 Mazda an little longer because of who the message is coming from.

>Peak combustion vehicle sales was 2017.

Peak oil was every year starting decades before I was born.

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