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Bill Ponton


NextImg:The future of EV sales

This morning, I performed a quick exercise asking ChatGPT to project EV share of U.S. light vehicle sales over the next decade. Here’s the S-curve (logistic) fit applied to the observed EV-share data.

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It is not a bad guess and saved me $100,000 by not having to hire a McKinsey consultant, like Pete Buttigieg. It also would be my guess considering:

Notice that I did not limit it to the mass of people who want to flaunt their green credentials. If that were the case, sales would plateau at 50% instead of 30% of the market. However, they are constrained by the fact that not all have: 

How is the cottage industry of green boosters taking the news? It is probably not going over well with them, but for now they are keeping a brave face hoping that the clock will be turned back to the Biden years. However, I don’t think that will happen because once something becomes as openly derided as the environmental movement is now, it’s very hard for them to recapture the moral high ground.

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Image generated by ChatGPT.