
BNEF’s annual forecast of electric vehicles, shared mobility and road transport to 2040.
BNEF’s annual forecast of electric vehicles, shared mobility and road transport to 2040.
The Electric Vehicle Outlook is our annual long-term forecast of how electrification and shared mobility will impact road transport from now to 2040. The report draws on our team of specialists around the world and also looks at how these trends will affect electricity demand, oil use and demand for battery materials.
What’s new in the 2019 EV Outlook?
This year’s forecast includes new analysis on how shared mobility will impact vehicle sales patterns, on the long-term demand for freight, and on how electrification will play out in the commercial vehicle market. We have also included our latest analysis on the outlook for battery prices and battery chemistry.
BNEF clients can access the full report, its breakdown by technology and region, as well as the underlying Excel data and previous editions. Go to client page or access on the Bloomberg Terminal. If you are not a client, you can read an excerpt of the findings in afree public summary.
The important updates in this year’s EV Outlook are the following:

Explore findings from the report
Read the free interactive summary report for high level findings from this year’s Outlook.

Press release
Electric transport spreads into commercial vehicle market

BNEF Summit Talk
Colin McKerracher discusses China’s electric vehicle market at the BNEF Summit in San Francisco
High-level findings of the Electric Vehicle Outlook 2019 are available in the free public report.
BNEF clients can access the full report, its breakdown by technology and region, as well as the underlying Excel data and previous editions. Go to client page or access on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Commercial vehicles
Oil demand
Modelling
Additional authors:
Siyi Mi, Ali Asghar, Allen Tom Abraham, Nannan Kou, Milo Boers, Richard Chatterton, Justin Commerford, Ryan Fisher, Leo Chen, Minji An, Alejandro Zamorano-Cadavid.
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