Once they have a decent sports car with good range I'll probably swap.

The USA is trying their best to reverse this trend.

At least partly because people can't or won't pay new vehicle prices. Also most any vehicle will last for 200,000 miles now, which can easily be over 10 years.

This is just modern, right? I'd imagine there are years like 1965 and 1986 or so that have this beat. They sold over 1 million Chevy Impalas alone in 1965.

*Ah, okay, my bad, I didn't mean to upset anyone lmao

If one graph could illustrate why there are oil conflicts erupting right now (Ukraine, Venezelua, Greenland etc..) this is it.

This has never happened in the oil world, the future was always more cars, more combustion engines.

Even though the majority of cars will run on fossil fuels long into the future and oil isn't going to be stopped being used anytime soon just the very fact that this inflection point has happened has begun to destabilize the oppressive structures of oil power and lead to infighting over a shrinking pool of oil buyers.

It is strange but many people in power are at some disturbingly deep level opposed to the very idea of this happening, the eventuality of most cars becoming electric and receding into a background of other transit systems is essentially a spiritual death for the ideology of US car companies and a lot of conservative, wealthy US culture.

@mods

FYI. This user is a new account spamming poor quality infographics for the last few hours.