AFR Today.The most exciting cars of the year… and what’s next...

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The most exciting cars of the year… and what’s next (snippet)

PHEVs are now offered across many market segments. However, customers aren’t yet convinced by this “bridging technology”, with more preferring to make the transition to an EV in one leap.Pure EVs are currently outselling PHEVs by better than eight to one. Indeed, EVs are running at 7.2 per cent of new car sales, year to date, and trended up to 7.7 per cent in November. No fewer than 80,446 EVs have been sold so far, compared with just 28,326 last year.

It’s going to be game over

There are still EV naysayers but I suspect few have driven a selection of the best new models. After only a few years of serious, industry-wide focus, the EV has in many areas surpassed the petrol-power car, with its near-140 years of development.
There are still improvements needed (less weight, faster charging, lower prices, better infrastructure) but with everyone working on EVs, they should be solved by the end of the decade, or even earlier.

Then, for most types of new fossil-fuelled vehicles, it’s game over.

P.S I keep reading EV's have slowed and that Hybrids are all the rage. Go Figure