{"id":48094,"date":"2023-04-24T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48094"},"modified":"2023-04-24T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:03:25","slug":"1139454_california-hits-1-5-million-plug-in-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48094","title":{"rendered":"California hits 1.5 million plug-in vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

California is farther ahead on the road to electric vehicle adoption than it anticipated a decade ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Governor Gavin Newsom last week announced that the state had passed a cumulative 1.5 million cumulative plug-in vehicle sales. That\u2019s two years ahead of a goal set by previous California Governor Jerry Brown, aiming to hit that number by 2025.<\/p>\n

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The numbers come from the California Energy Commission, which last week updated its numbers through the first quarter. The CEC reported that cumulative sales for battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel-cell EVs combined stands at nearly 1.524 million, while battery electric vehicles themselves, the largest portion of that by far, are at about 1,051,000 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So far this year, 21.2% of new vehicles sold in California were ZEVs\u2014meaning primarily EVs and plug-in hybrids combined. Looking only at battery electric sales, EVs add up to about 16% of the light-duty new-vehicle market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tesla<\/p>\n

Tesla charging<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Nationwide, as the Department of Energy recently summed, comparable plug-in vehicle sales including EVs and PHEVs added up to around 7% for 2022, with EV sales at 5.6%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the Governor\u2019s office pointed out, citing the advocacy group Veloz, California has more EVs than New Hampshire has cars, twice as many EVs as Wyoming, and more than twice as many EVs as Norway<\/a>, which is often seen as an EV promised land.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also important to note that the fleet turns over slowly\u2014especially in California where vehicles typically don\u2019t rust. According to the state, there were about 30 million light vehicles registered in the state at the end of 2021, with about 838,000 of those EVs of some form (not nearly all EVs sold in California stay in California). But that\u2019s nearing 3% of the total vehicle population.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Audi<\/p>\n

Audi e-tron, on the Golden Gate Bridge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

California\u2019s plan, detailed in 2021, effectively mandates the sale of EVs by 2035<\/a>, including longer-range plug-in hybrids. It follows a 2020 executive order from Newsom that effectively kicked off this round of tightened timelines\u2014and reaffirmed the state as a regulatory trendsetter. That\u2019s led to many other states adopting California\u2019s mandate, but as we\u2019ve pointed out, they aren\u2019t the only top U.S. states in EV registrations<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The EPA last month proposed new tailpipe rules<\/a> toughening fleet emissions standards and effectively lining up with the level of EVs required by California\u2014even if the national rule doesn\u2019t include a mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The truck side is following California, too. The U.S. EPA just last month also proposed a plan that appears to work with California\u2019s requirement of almost half of new heavy-duty trucks going zero-emissions by 2035\u2014following a California mandate for electric commercial trucks<\/a> that start applying in small numbers in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California is farther ahead on the road to electric vehicle adoption than it anticipated a decade ago.\u00a0 Governor Gavin Newsom last week announced that the state had passed a cumulative 1.5 million cumulative plug-in vehicle sales. That\u2019s two years ahead of a goal set by previous California Governor Jerry Brown, aiming to hit that number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}