> "Motors and motor systems account for approximately 53 percent of global electricity consumption. We estimate that improving the efficiency of all the world’s motors by just 1 percent would reduce the motors’ power consumption by 94.5 terawatt-hours and shrink their carbon dioxide footprint by the equivalent of 60 million metric tons."

I find this surprising. Perhaps a big chunk of this is air conditioning, which is technically using a motor to run a compressor?