Electric Vehicles Predicted To Become More Popular In 2040

Electric vehicles are starting to become more common these days, and while they are slowly gaining acceptance, safe to say they aren’t as preferred compared to regular fuel-consuming vehicles.

If you’re looking forward to the day when electric cars rule the roads, you probably won’t like what the US Department of Energy has to say. The organization’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) is forecasting that the vast majority of cars will still use gasoline in the year 2040. According to the group’s 2014 Annual Energy Outlook, a staggering 78 percent of light duty vehicles will still be sold with gasoline engines in that year, compared to just one percent plug-in hybrids, one percent full electric vehicles, and just five percent standard hybrid engines like the one popularized by the Toyota Prius.