These Countries Embrace E.V.s to Avoid Oil Price Shocks

Electric vehicle sales in Latin America, Africa and much of Asia — a grouping that includes billions of people but that analysts often refer to as “rest of world” — soared 79 percent in March compared with a year earlier, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a research firm.

That rate of growth is astonishing. Many of these countries are now adopting electric driving much faster than "the west".