What slowdown? Build a product people want and they will buy it.
EV sales have risen rapidly during this period from roughly 20,000 sales per month in 2020 and 2019 to over 90,000 per month in 2023 (Figure 7). At the start of 2023, forecasters estimated that beginning in 2026, more than one million EVs would be sold each year, and by 2030, nearly 1.8 million EVs would be sold—more than five times the forecast in 2021 (Figure 8). Actual sales have surpassed these forecasts. More than one million EVs have already been sold in 2023—three years ahead of the projections made earlier this year and 18 years ahead of the projections made in the beginning of 2021.
There have to be ongoing battles within all of the legacy automakers between advocates for EVs and the directors managing the production of the old ICE models. Those companies that cling to non-battery vehicles will be like Kodak’s failure to adapt to the non-film world.
That’s good news to end the year on, and those solar electric generating cycle paths are still alive & expanding in Holland.
“The solar panel surfaces aren’t like smooth rooftop panels – they’re treated so that they provide the same grip as conventional road mixes.”
https://electrek.co/2023/12/18/dutch-riding-bikes-solar-cycle-paths/
And Rolls-Royce are steadily progressing the path to greenhouse gas free aviation. . .
Hydrogen power is seen as an avenue to decarbonisation and Airbus, in particular, is intending to develop a hydrogen-fuelled aircraft for entry into service in the mid-2030s.
https://www.flightglobal.com/aerospace/rolls-royce-commences-tests-on-pressurising-and-pumping-liquid-hydrogen/156261.article
Unexpected?