| The numbers are as they are now. For future energy consumption I would look to India, which is on the same energy growth path as China 20 years ago. And there are many countries with low per capita energy consumption but high potential. Like Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt,.. https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/indonesia https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/malaysia https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/egypt I agree that efficiency of electric motor + battery is much higher that ICE. ICE cars are now slowly replaced with EV cars. About 42% of oil is refined to gasoline, but much of oil is refined to diesel, jet fuel and used in transportation which is harder to convert to EV, like long-haul trucking, or much harder to convert to EV, like international shipping, air transport. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc... " efficiencies of up to 43% for passenger car engines, up to 45% for large truck and bus engines, and up to 55% for large two-stroke marine engines" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine#Efficiency "By generating power from multiple streams of work, the overall efficiency can be increased by about 50–60%. That is, from an overall efficiency of say 43% for a simple cycle with the turbine alone running, to as much as 64% net with the full combined cycle running" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined-cycle_power_plant |