"Irreversible decline": How EVs and renewables could soon kill off a huge chunk of oil demand

Michael Holder
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Renewables and EVs on course to replace 40 per cent of demand for oil in next 25 years, according to new BNP Paribas analysis

Oil companies are engaged in a "race against time" to guard against a huge 40 per cent chunk of their business disappearing over the next 25 years, as declining renewables costs and rising demand for electric...

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