The stock of electric cars is rising rapidly.

For a long time, electric cars were an inconvenient niche product for eco-zealots. But with an ever-increasing Range, the rise of plug-in hybrids, and an increasingly dense Network of charging stations Electric cars are slowly becoming a competitor to combustion engine vehicles.

As this graph shows, there are currently only three million electric vehicles on the roads of the world, but the current growth rates are immense. With the major manufacturers jumping on the electrified bandwagon, and electric car champion Tesla leading the entire development, it seems only a matter of time before Internal combustion engines an outdated niche product for carbon-driving eccentrics.

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