, between 2010 and the end of 2021, more than 2.1 million plug-in vehicles were sold in the US, including 1.3 million battery EVs. That sounds like a very impressive number, but bear in mind, that's out of a total national vehicle pool of. Argonne estimates that despite all these plug-ins, national gasoline consumption was reduced by just 0.54 percent in 2021.
Argonne assumed that plug-in drivers behave much like their gasoline-powered counterparts but applied a utility factor to PHEVs based on battery size and a mileage adjustment factor based on EPA-estimated range for BEVs, with the baseline being an internal combustion engine vehicle driving 13,500 miles , with a mix of 57 percent highway driving and 43 percent city driving. Proportional reductions in annual mileage due to Covid-19 were applied for 2020 and 2021 as well.
There are a ton of people that are still in car payments, prices for EVs need to come down, charging needs to be more accessible, charging speeds to be faster, need more and cheaper SUV style EVs.
Now can you calculate how much more greenhouse gas was emitted by 1) manufacturing all these EVs, and 2) generating the electricity to charge them all - this year, alone?
Who are the users of EVs? Those who do less than 10,000 miles a month or those doing significantly more? Business or private users? Beware of statistics 🤔
This stat is kinda Bs thought. Gas consumption? How about emissions as a better metric?
At least, the control of air pollution can be more centralized, still an vantage.
It’s not “disheartening” at all. 2.5 billion gallons of gas avoided. Rapidly accelerating market share for BEVs. Why is WIRED taking such a negative tone?
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This seems more of a testament to the rapid shift away from smaller sedans to mid- to full-size SUVs offsetting most of the gains from EVs.
EV is still not a mainstream atleast in US, we need to have better infrastructure and a wide array of options with higher miles in sub 25K to increase adaptability Hope it happens in future
And what's being used to generate electricity? Coal.
Gas cars have been produced in millions for over 100 years… about 10 years for electric. What a stupid clickbait article. Didn’t expect such crap from the .
progress starts somewhere.
EnriquePenalosa Trains! The kicker in this article doesn't mention trains as an alternative to driving.
Gas is obviously more available…and preferable.
It's a start, the U.S. is lagging the rest of the world, it'll catch up
I blame increased gaslighting.
There’s about 250 million cars, SUVs, and light trucks in USA. Less than 1% of that is electric, and they are currently mostly cars. So that result seems reasonable At 15 million new sales a year, would take more than 15 years of 100% ev sales to replace fleet and gasoline
Not surprising that EVs could not offset consumption. Too many bigass SUVs & Pickup trucks on the road with less than stellar fuel efficiency.
So emissions fell by the proportion you'd expect given the proportion of cars which are electric. Using the figures you supply in the opening paragraph of *your own article*. Fixed the headline for you: 'Electric cars easy way to reduce emissions without impact on your life'
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