The rise of electric cars is staggering. In 2016, just 700,000 electric cars were sold worldwide, this year it’ll be over 14 million. However, we are still off-track to meet climate goals. Colin McKerracher, head of Advanced Transport at BloombergNEF, joins Zero to discuss how electric cars can get on track to meet net-zero targets, why China has succeeded where others haven’t, and when we’ll finally see more electric cars on the roads than those burning fossil fuels. Read more: China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles Electric Vehicle Sales Top $1 Trillion in Wake-Up Call for Carmakers Electric Cars Are Winning Out Because of Consumers, Not Politicians Pre-order Akshat’s new book, Climate Capitalism Read a transcript of this episode. Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Oscar Boyd and our senior producer is Christine Driscoll. Special thanks to Kira Bindrim. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit bloomberg.com/green. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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