The number of electric cars on the road worldwide has passed the two million mark after record sales of more than 750,000 last year, driven by falling costs and rising concerns about pollution. However, electric vehicles account for only 0.2 per cent of all cars and there is “a long way to go” before they make a significant dent in oil demand and carbon emissions, the International Energy Agency said. There could be between nine million and 20 million electric cars in service globally by 2020 and between 40 million and 70 million by 2025 on present forecasts, the IEA reported. This would need to rise steeply, to 600 million by 2040, to achieve the goals enshrined in the Paris climate change agreement of limiting global warming to within 2C of pre-industrial levels.
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