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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10336)	2/11/2017 2:35:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 355934

A lot of the vehicles in that "record year" were plug-in hybrids not pure electrics. The pure electrics mentioned Tesla - total of 76,230 sales globally. Nissan Leaf - 17,469 Ford Focus Electric - "under a thousand" Mitsubishi iMiEV - "under a thousand" / 236 in US and Canada according to goodcarbadcar.net Smart ForTwo Electric Drive - "under a thousand" Mercedes Benz B Class Electric Drive - "under a thousand" Smart ForTwo Electric Drive - "under a thousand" Chevy Bolt - 579 Chevy Spark EV - 17 Kia Soul EV - no sales breakout for 2016 acording to your link. Global sales since 2014 just passed 10k acording to Wikipedia. Fiat 500e - No sales data available. The data that is available show 16,549 recalls for the model. All 2013 to 2016 models were recalled. The specific numbers add up to 94,295. You have 5 more of "under a thousand". Lets say 600 each that makes just over 97k. You have two more with no sales figures and a total of 26k+ over several years. Lets be generous and say close to half of that was in 2016 and add another 13k. That gives you 110k electric sales world wide. Lets bump it up another 10k as a fudge factor just to make sure that if its wrong its wrong in estimating too many rather than too few. So 120k. Total world wide cars and light trucks on the road - estimates around 1.2 billion. So new electric sales in the record year - one percent of one percent of the global installed base. Total auto sales in 2016 - about 77 million according to statista.com (not sure if that includes light trucks or not). Electric sales with a generous estimate for the record year - about .156% of the new sales (maybe less if light trucks aren't included in the 77 million). And that's with a tax credit in the US, a CA sales requirement, and other tax benefits, subsidies, and requirements in other places, along with gasoline and diesel taxes to cover road funding but no equivalent tax for EVs.