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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShell Oil CEO stunner: My next car will be electric And he predicts oil demand may peak by 2030.
Peak oil demand cant be far away when the CEO of one of the worlds largest oil companies says his next car will be an electric vehicle.
Last week, Bloomberg TV asked Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, what the implications of the electric vehicle revolution might be for the oil giant, with countries like the UK and France planning to ban gasoline and diesel cars outright by 2040.
The next buy I do is my next car, which will be an electric vehicle, was Van Beurdens surprise answer. Shell is Europes biggest oil company indeed, its biggest company of any kind with $272 billion in revenues last year.
A Shell spokesman told Bloomberg the CEO will get a plug-in Mercedes-Benz S500e in September, while the Chief Financial Officer already drives a BMW i3 electric car.
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Kaleva
(36,146 posts)When the super rich gulf states see their revenues plummet. And slso for the other nations who depend on oil for much of their revenue. Iran, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria.
HeartachesNhangovers
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Kaleva
(36,146 posts)Initech
(99,914 posts)I'd love to see it happen. I very badly want a Tesla Model 3.