Since the beginning of 2022, electric vehicle sales in the United States have been downright electrifying.
Last year, US drivers bought more than 800,000 new electric vehicles (EVs), 65 percent more than in 2021, even as overall car sales declined. Those 807,956 EVs accounted for 5.8 percent of all new cars sold, an increase from 3.1 percent in 2021.
Thanks largely to federal tax incentives, lower sticker prices, and more available models, EV sales have continued to surge in 2023. The 554,140 EVs sold during the first and second quarter of this year represent nearly a 50 percent jump from the first half of 2021, and sales are on pace to surpass a record-breaking 1 million by the end of this year.
That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the…
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.