Chart: EVs are ascendant — and gas cars are past their prime

Published on November 21, 2025

See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column . Gas cars are sputtering, stuck in the slow lane — and battery-powered vehicles are gaining on them fast. A massive shift has occurred in less than a decade. At their all-time high, in 2017, global sales of pure internal combustion vehicles hit 79.9 million…

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