New Cars Sold That Are Electrici
2025Target: 100% by 2035
World Electricity From Renewablesi
2025of world electricity, renewable
Target: 100% by 2040
Where Global Energy Money Is Flowingi
2025Global Temperature vs. Pre-Industriali
2025above pre-industrial levels
We've already cut the worst-case outcome nearly in half.
Unchecked, warming was on track for roughly 4°C by 2100. Today's policies now point to about 2.7°C, still far too hot, but proof the trajectory bends when action scales.
Why the Curve Keeps Bending
Adoption charts get the attention, but this is the underlying reason they're accelerating: the hardware got radically cheaper.
🔋 Cost of an EV Battery Pack
-0%2010 figure is inflation-adjusted to real 2025 dollars. This is the single biggest reason EVs went from a novelty to a quarter of global car sales.
BloombergNEF, 2025 Lithium-Ion Battery Price Survey ↗☀️ Cost to Build Utility-Scale Solar
-0%Solar is now one of the cheapest ways to generate electricity in most of the world, not a subsidized niche.
IRENA, Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2024 ↗Where This Sits on the Adoption Curve
This is an illustrative framework, the classic technology diffusion S-curve (Rogers, 1962; popularized for tech by Moore's Crossing the Chasm), not a line fitted to our own data. The curve shape is conceptual; the marker position is our real current value.
EV sales share (25%)
Currently in the Early Majority phase, past the dashed 16% line: the point where a new technology has historically either stalled or gone mainstream.
Renewables share (33.8%)
Currently in the Early Majority phase, past the dashed 16% line: the point where a new technology has historically either stalled or gone mainstream.
Recent Wins
Specific, dated moments. Each one links to where it came from.
Then vs. Now
Drag through the years we actually have data for, 2015 to 2025. Not every year has a real figure for both metrics, we show "no data" rather than guess.
New cars sold, electric
+24.0% since 2015
World electricity, renewable
+10.9% since 2015
Share This Snapshot
Today's numbers as an image, worth re-sharing every time they move.
Bending the Curve
The energy transition is winnable.
25%
new cars, electric
33.8%
electricity, renewable
2.0x
clean vs. fossil investment
+1.47°C
above pre-industrial
thecurvebends.com · 2026-08-01 · IEA · Ember · Copernicus
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