From oiloholics to e-totallers: The coming revolution in transport
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What changes in driving habits and improved batteries might do to oil demand
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From oiloholics to e-totallers
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Transport
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Breaking the habit
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From oiloholics to e-totallers
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Horseless evolution
IT HAS BEEN a bad couple of years for those hoping for the death of driving. In America, where cars are an important part of the national psyche, a decade ago people had suddenly started to drive less, which had not happened since the oil shocks of the 1970s. Academics started to talk excitedly about “peak driving”, offering explanations such as urbanisation, ageing baby-boomers, car-shy millennials, ride-sharing apps such as Uber and even the distraction of Facebook.
Yet the causes may have been more prosaic: a combination of ...