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The road to an all-electric car fleet will be bumpier than it looks (www.reuters.com)

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[–] amunoto@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

The article does not treat obstacles to EV adoption as the title might suggest. The content is indicated by the first sentences from the article :

The global shift to electric vehicles might appear unstoppable, but the path there is far from straightforward.
Battery electric vehicles will eventually dominate passenger car fleets across every region, according to global risk management firm DNV, and will capture more than 90% share by 2050 in markets ranging from China and Europe to Southeast Asia.
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That might appear to signal a rapid decline in oil demand for road transport, and merit steep downward revisions in gasoline consumption forecasts across several major regions.
However, a closer look at the inventory data for the underlying car fleets suggests the journey away ‌from internal combustion engines (ICE) likely has plenty of twists and turns ahead.