EVs will become more popular if they are correctly priced, once the battery technology allows for a higher energy density and increased km range and last but not least, if car manufacturers increase their efforts to join with solar and /or wind energy suppliers to provide V2H and V2G solutions to the customers, allowing for a more intensive and efficient usage of the EVs battery pack.

With regards to point 1) and 2): Price matters, let me give some obvious examples:

Reducing the price of the Leaf in the US has resulted in a serious jump in sales, starting March 2013. Sales numbers for Jan, Feb, March and April were respectively 650, 653, 2236 and 1937 units.

Reducing the price of the Leaf in Germany resulted in sales of 191 Nissan Leaf in April while only 50 units were sold in the first 3 months of 2013.

In China, according China Autoweb, the total sales of EVs in 2012 was reported as 12,085 units, excluding buses.

While this number was strikingly low for China where authorities are very supportive towards EVs, the number is also extremely misleading as it doesn’t account for sales of LSEVs. In Shandong Province alone, LSEV sales in Jan. and Feb. reached 25,924 units representing >8% of all automobile sales for Shandong province in that time period.
This goes in stark contrast with the 0.08% market penetration for EV sales versus total passenger car sales for the whole of China in 2012.

The Shandong LSEV sales are the more astonishing because no subsidies are available for buyers of these LSEVs while generous subsidies were available for sales of EVs produced by the dominant China car manufacturers.

Why? Mainly because of price:
A fully licensed A class EV fulfilling the China GB/T 28382-2012 standard for Battery EVs such as the BYD E6 EV is priced at $59000 before subsidies and costs approx. $38400 after deduction of subsidies.

A Shandong manufactured LSEV with Lead-Acid batteries, having a km range of up to +/-80kms is sold at < $7000. No subsidies available.

Sales are expected to drastically increase once the new EV subsidies become available in the second half of 2013.

A MIT approved BEV such as produced by Kandi Technologies, slightly larger than the Smart, with 2 Li-ion battery packs totaling 9.6 kWh is being priced to consumers at <$6500 exluding batteries and <$14200 including batteries before application of any Central and Local Government subsidies that will be available starting 2nd half of 2013.

Kandi Technologies recently signed a joint venture with Geely which is expected to boost sales all over China, especially in the 25 EV demonstration cities.

With regards to point 3, the little note in the frame below your article I would like the readers to have a look to the following article because China is clearly doing more efforts to steer away from dirty power: http://goo.gl/Df4Nf
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Bit of a fail here Adam Johnson, Economics and Rhetoric, Writing & Communications student and energy writer wantabe. Perhaps you could do some fact checking and work up a better version?

The LEAF is $21,300 after the federal subsidy. Less than $20k in some states which offer subsidies.

“If 1 in 20 cars sold in the US this year was a LEAF, 385,000 tons of CO2 would be saved on a clean grid”

According to the infographic a LEAF on a clean grid saves 314 g/mile. An average car does 10,000 miles per year. That works out to 3,14 tons of saved CO2 emissions per year per LEAF. 1 in 20 of ~15 million cars sold in the US annually is 750,000 cars. 750,000 * 3,14 tons = 2,36 megaton. This is 6 times more than the infographic says.

Furthermore, as CleanTechnica’s EV reporter Zachary Shahan has shown, an EV is cheaper than a comparable ICE vehicle.

Hmmm, exaggerating DOE loans, underplaying the environmental benefits, inflating the costs, emphasizing how few EV’s are being sold today. Was this infographic made by Fox News?

Next time you publish an infographic, please make sure the numbers are correct.