The number of electric vehicles on the road worldwide is set to triple by the end of the decade.
The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast that, given current policies around the world, 13 million electric vehicles will be on the road in 2020, compared with 3.7 million just last year.
About half of the electric vehicles sold in 2017, or 580,000, were in China. That country saw a 72 percent increase in sales.
The world’s electric vehicle fleet accounts for 54 terawatt-hours of electricity demand, or about the demand of Greece.
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