EnergyReader · 2026-08-05 01:35

China's EV Fleet Erodes the Strait of Hormuz's Demand Leverage

By EnergyReader Newsroom · August 5, 2026

The IEA now expects China's electric vehicle fleet to remove more than 4 million barrels per day from the country's oil demand by 2035, under both its current-policy and stated-policy scenarios. Set against the Strait of Hormuz, where EIA data show 21 million b/d transited in 2022 and accounted for roughly 21% of global petroleum liquids consumption, that projection reshapes the long-run disruption arithmetic for oil's most-trafficked chokepoint.

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