Electric vehicles displaced about 1.7mn barrels a day (b/d) of oil consumption worldwide in 2025, up from 0.4mn b/d in 2020, according to the ...
  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    3 hours

    105 million barrels of oil/day globally, which is weirdly missing from that article. China consumes 16.189 mil b/d, 3x more than the 3rd place consumer India (5.271 mil b/d)

    As feels all too normal these days, US consumption is difficult to know - Trump/DOGE have utterly destroyed the agency responsible for calculating it after they reported a reduction in consumption. Most estimates put it at around 19 mil b/d, based on the increase in US EVs (7%) and the sharp reduction in driving due to the high price of oil as a result of the iran war.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      37 minutes

      Crazy that a country with 4x less people can manage to use more oil.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        9 minutes

        Especially given China has 90m more cars than the US. The gap is really down to China’s consumption of coal for primary power generation (60%) vs the US (9%) where coal isn’t included in the barrel/day totals.

        edit: wtf is with the formatting here.