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Global EV Adoption Hits New High Of 20 Million Thanks To Tiny Electric Cars

The number of electric cars currently on roads is about to pass 20 million. This latest million mark in global EV adoption will come and go by the summer of 2022, in June, as Bloomberg reports. And then, by the end of the year, analysts claim the number of EVs in use will be over 26 million vehicles globally.

That includes gasoline hybrid cars and plug-in hybrids, but fully-electric cars still account for the majority of those in use — something like 14.7 million.

OK. That’s a lot of electrics cars! Or, at the very least, it’s a lot more EVs than previous estimates claimed for this same time period. In fact, as recently as 2016, the number of EVs in operation was barely one million, per Bloomberg.

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