{"id":749942,"date":"2013-05-06T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=641667"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:05:52","slug":"4-charts-that-show-the-slow-but-steady-progress-of-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749942","title":{"rendered":"4 charts that show the slow but steady progress of electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not all\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/05\/01\/electric-car-maker-coda-files-for-bankruptcy\/\">bankruptcies<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/22\/fisker-fails-to-deliver-1st-government-loan-payment-doe-has-already-taken-21m\/\">lost government loans<\/a> in the world of electric cars. Beneath the headlines about hard times for the companies, there&#8217;s a steady trickle of customers buying electric cars, charging stations being built, and at least one electric car company eking out a <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/01\/teslas-stock-soars-over-20-on-profit-sales-news\/\">profit for the first time<\/a>. The following charts point to some bright spots for electric cars in 2013.<\/p> <h2 id=\"electric-car-sales-are-steadil\">Electric car sales are steadily increasing.<\/h2> <img src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/electric-car-sales-hevs-erevs-and-bevs-source-edta-6416541.png?w=354\" alt=\"Electric car sales (HEVs, EREVs and BEVs), source: EDTA\" width=\"354\" height=\"193.5\" class=\"go-datamodule\" \/> <h2 id=\"more-electric-car-purchases-le\">More electric car purchases leads to more public charging stations.<\/h2> <img src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/public-charging-stations-source-dept-of-energy-via-autoblog-6417921.png?w=354\" alt=\"Public charging stations, source: Dept. of Energy via Autoblog\" width=\"354\" height=\"193.5\" class=\"go-datamodule\" \/> <h2 id=\"not-all-models-will-succeed-sa\">Not all models will succeed. Sales of Nissan&#8217;s LEAF, GM&#8217;s Volt, Tesla&#8217;s Model S:<\/h2> <img src=\"http:\/\/gigaom2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/electric-car-sales-6416791.png?w=354\" alt=\"Electric car sales \" width=\"354\" height=\"193.5\" class=\"go-datamodule\" \/> <h2 id=\"tesla-the-beacon-of-the-electr\">Tesla, the beacon of the electric car industry, hits an all-time-high stock price.<\/h2> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/TSLA\/chart#series=agg:last,units:,freq:,calc:price,type:company,id:TSLA&%2338;maxPoints=610&%2338;zoom=5&%2338;format=real\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"TSLA Chart\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.ycharts.com\/charts\/64bfeda54b6e0133907bac027fa7a142.png?w=780\" class=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p style=\"font-size:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ycharts.com\/companies\/TSLA\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p> <br \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><p><a 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Beneath the headlines about hard times for the companies, there&#8217;s a steady trickle of customers buying electric cars, charging stations being built, and at least one electric car company eking out a profit for the first time. The following charts point to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-395Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}