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Total delivered transportation energy consumption · Hindsight | Envisioning

Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated

Total delivered transportation energy consumption

US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook, 2017, published 2017

Publishers Envisioning Hype Cycle explorer Forecast vs actual

transportation_energy_consumption in 2040: 25.8215 quadrillion Btu

Source

Verdict

Not graded yet.

The same forecast in other editions

201229.618 quadrillion Btu
201327.1448 quadrillion Btu
201425.5031 quadrillion Btu
201526.49 quadrillion Btu
201626.6253 quadrillion Btu
201725.8215 quadrillion Btu
201823.8879 quadrillion Btu
201924.2806 quadrillion Btu
202025.0179 quadrillion Btu
202126.2553 quadrillion Btu
202227.6159 quadrillion Btu
202325.403 quadrillion Btu
202524.5265 quadrillion Btu

All captured fields

series: transportation_energy_consumption
target year: 2040
value: 25.8215
unit: quadrillion Btu
case: Reference
retrospective: AEO Retrospective 2025 (data file, pulled August 2025)
column: CNSM_ENU_TRN_NA_DELE_NA_NA_QBTU
confidence: high

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https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2017-340

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Hindsight, claim eia-aeo-2017-340. Envisioning. https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/eia-aeo-2017-340

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