Together, India and China currently make up 13 percent of global gasoline demand. Their shift away from gas cars would “change everything,” writes the University of Michigan professor Juan Cole in Informed Comment:
If we take Asia into account, we can confidently predict that over the next decade and more several million electric vehicles will be sold, putting the American market in the shade…If the U.S. doesn’t get its act together, people may end up driving Indian and Chinese electric cars.