The share of electrical automobile in new automobile gross sales within the US was shut to six% in 2022. On the finish of 2022, there have been over 50 electrical automobile fashions obtainable for buy on the US retail market. The market chief within the US is Tesla, however different manufacturers are additionally beginning to get some vital traction. I not too long ago traveled to the US and spent a while close to Orlando and Jacksonville in Florida, San Jose California, Manhattan NY, and New Jersey. I additionally drove with a pal of mine for about Three and a half hours on the I95 to Jacksonville and was consistently looking out for EVs on the interstate. All through my travels, I used to be at all times looking out for battery-electric automobiles on the street and round parking tons. As of late one doesn’t actually need to look onerous to stumble upon EVs, in contrast to a decade in the past or so when one must go on a treasure hunt to search out some EVs.
With near 50 electrical automobile modes now obtainable within the US, I used to be actually curious as to what number of of those fashions I might stumble upon with out trying onerous for them or going to a dealership showroom. What was constant all through my journey was the clear proven fact that that is the house of Tesla. There are Teslas all over the place. Within the San Jose and San Francisco space, Teslas had been actually distinguished. It’s like if you happen to shut your eyes and spin round and then you definately level in any route after which cease, by the point you open your eyes, likelihood is fairly excessive you’ll level in direction of a Tesla. I additionally noticed loads of Teslas in all of the locations I visited as effectively, though they didn’t seem like as many as within the California areas I visited. Which Teslas did I see? Effectively, most of them. I noticed Mannequin S, 3, X, and Ys, each outdated and new fashions, customary vary fashions, lengthy vary fashions, and efficiency fashions in addition to Plaid fashions.
So which different EV fashions did I spot? In all of the locations I visited, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 stood out as effectively. It appears to be a preferred EV. The outdated Hyundai Kona additionally made some cameo appearances. Ford Mustang Mach Es additionally had been comparatively straightforward to identify, and BMW i4s additionally appear to have a following. I used to be actually excited to see a Mercedes Benz EQS SUV. I actually like this one and hopefully someday once I land on a pile of money I can get one. It’s a Mercedes and it’s electrical! I additionally noticed some BMW iXs and a few of Audi’s e-tron variants. The second technology Nissan Leaf, BMW i3, Kia, and eNiros had been additionally comparatively straightforward to identify. In San Francisco, I additionally noticed one in all Waymo’s Jaguar iPaces, which was fairly cool. It simply drove previous us on the freeway.
The one factor that basically stood out for me was the fashions I didn’t see. I had been hoping to see these fashions, but it surely seems I didn’t get to see them in all these locations. In all of the cities I visited, I didn’t see any Ford F150 Lightnings, I didn’t see any Rivians, and I didn’t see any Lucid Airs. May or not it’s as a result of they don’t seem to be but so frequent? Perhaps I’ll see some subsequent time. I didn’t exit of my approach to search for explicit EVs as I wished to get a way of how EV adoption goes simply by taking a look at vehicles going by or parked at locations I finished at.
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