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Electric vehicles sold in the US during Q4 of 2024 comprised ~11% of all light duty vehicle sales. This is the highest quarter on record.* This also represents a 0.3 percentage-point market share increase from the 3rd quarter of 2024, according to an analysis released today by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade and lobbying group for automakers. There were about 433,843 EV sales from 144 different electric vehicle models sold in the 4th quarter alone of last year. Battery electric vehicles make up the majority of those, but plug-in electric as well as hybrid vehicle sales have been growing as well.
“Prices have still remained higher for electric vehicles than the average by about $6000. This is data from Kelley Blue Book,” the Alliance said. “Even with some of the federal and state incentives, we’re still at $6000 to $10,000 more for an electric vehicle than the overall industry average sales price.”
Geographic Distribution of Charging Infrastructure
At the end of 2024, there were ~195,000 public charging ports across the country and 5.8 million EVs on the road, a ratio of 30 EVs per charger. “While progress has been made installing public charging across the country, disparities persist. At the end of 2023, 31% of all U.S. counties had zero chargers installed. At the end of 2024, that number was 27 % (854 counties with NO public charging). Counties with five or fewer charging ports account for 41% of all counties. That number is an improvement from 2023 at 53 %. The top 25 counties with the most public charging ports installed accounted for nearly one-third of all available U.S. Charging (61,569 ports). At the end of 2024, 44 % of counties had No DC Fast charging installed. Next 6 % of counties had access to only 1 port. California is home to 26% of all DC Fast ports,” the Alliance said.
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[California now has 48% more public and shared private EV chargers than the number of gasoline nozzles. The California Energy Commission (CEC) estimates published 20 March says there are about 120,000 gas nozzles in the state, compared to 178,000 public and shared private chargers. – AutoCrat]
Alliance Numbers
- In Q4 2024, the number of publicly available EV chargers increased 5 % from Q3 2024 – while total EVs on the road increased 7%.
- Nationwide, 433,843 EVs were registered in Q4 2024 but only 9701 new public chargers were added – a ratio of 45 new EVs for every new public port.
- There are 5.8 million EVs on the road (2 % of vehicles in operation – a new high) and a total of 194,824 publicly available charging outlets in the U.S. – a ratio of 30 EVs for every public port.
- Half of all registered EVs are located in just 41 counties.
- 27% of counties had no access to public charging.
How Much Charging Is Necessary to Support a Larger Adoption Rate of EVs
“The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, funded through the Department of Energy did an analysis of what would be the publicly available charging to support 50% EV sales by 2030. That would represent 33 million electric vehicles. They found is just over 1.2 million publicly available level 2 and DC fast charging would be necessary to support that 50% or 33 million EV’s on the road. The analysis also then took a breakdown of a state by state
“To get an idea of what would be necessary to support again 50% EV sales by 2030 shows of where we are today to get where we would need to be is just under 1.1 million chargers would be necessary. We have just under 195,000 charging ports currently installed. We would need over 1,000,000 more chargers to support t50% EV sales by 2030. So what does that actually mean? When we break that down, well, that would mean we would need 481 chargers to be installed every day starting at the end of 2024 for the next six years to support again 50% EV sales. Breaking that down even more, that would be 3 publicly available EV charging stations installed and operational every 10 minutes through the end of 2030. So we have a. Significant way to go again if we were to support 50% EV sales.
“As we’re going to increase EV sales. The charging has to be ubiquitous. It has to be reliable and accessible for all EV drivers,” the Alliance said.
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Electric Vehicle Sales Outpacing Public Chargers
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Electric vehicles sold in the US during Q4 of 2024 comprised ~11% of all light duty vehicle sales. This is the highest quarter on record.* This also represents a 0.3 percentage-point market share increase from the 3rd quarter of 2024, according to an analysis released today by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade and lobbying group for automakers. There were about 433,843 EV sales from 144 different electric vehicle models sold in the 4th quarter alone of last year. Battery electric vehicles make up the majority of those, but plug-in electric as well as hybrid vehicle sales have been growing as well.
“Prices have still remained higher for electric vehicles than the average by about $6000. This is data from Kelley Blue Book,” the Alliance said. “Even with some of the federal and state incentives, we’re still at $6000 to $10,000 more for an electric vehicle than the overall industry average sales price.”
Geographic Distribution of Charging Infrastructure
At the end of 2024, there were ~195,000 public charging ports across the country and 5.8 million EVs on the road, a ratio of 30 EVs per charger. “While progress has been made installing public charging across the country, disparities persist. At the end of 2023, 31% of all U.S. counties had zero chargers installed. At the end of 2024, that number was 27 % (854 counties with NO public charging). Counties with five or fewer charging ports account for 41% of all counties. That number is an improvement from 2023 at 53 %. The top 25 counties with the most public charging ports installed accounted for nearly one-third of all available U.S. Charging (61,569 ports). At the end of 2024, 44 % of counties had No DC Fast charging installed. Next 6 % of counties had access to only 1 port. California is home to 26% of all DC Fast ports,” the Alliance said.
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[California now has 48% more public and shared private EV chargers than the number of gasoline nozzles. The California Energy Commission (CEC) estimates published 20 March says there are about 120,000 gas nozzles in the state, compared to 178,000 public and shared private chargers. – AutoCrat]
Alliance Numbers
How Much Charging Is Necessary to Support a Larger Adoption Rate of EVs
“The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, funded through the Department of Energy did an analysis of what would be the publicly available charging to support 50% EV sales by 2030. That would represent 33 million electric vehicles. They found is just over 1.2 million publicly available level 2 and DC fast charging would be necessary to support that 50% or 33 million EV’s on the road. The analysis also then took a breakdown of a state by state
“To get an idea of what would be necessary to support again 50% EV sales by 2030 shows of where we are today to get where we would need to be is just under 1.1 million chargers would be necessary. We have just under 195,000 charging ports currently installed. We would need over 1,000,000 more chargers to support t50% EV sales by 2030. So what does that actually mean? When we break that down, well, that would mean we would need 481 chargers to be installed every day starting at the end of 2024 for the next six years to support again 50% EV sales. Breaking that down even more, that would be 3 publicly available EV charging stations installed and operational every 10 minutes through the end of 2030. So we have a. Significant way to go again if we were to support 50% EV sales.
“As we’re going to increase EV sales. The charging has to be ubiquitous. It has to be reliable and accessible for all EV drivers,” the Alliance said.
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