Top 50 Metro Areas by Electric Vehicle Registrations (best, cost, state)

[18Montclair]

This seems way too low to me. Every other car I see here is a Tesla. Oh well.

Top 50 Metro Areas by Electric Vehicle Registrations:
1 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 230,940
2 San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley 122,404
3 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara 73,810
4 New York-Newark-Jersey City70,943
5 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad 51,616

6 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 43,183
7 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler 42,049
8 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 41,755
9 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario 40,232
10 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta 36,051

11 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 32,775
12 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom 27,937
13 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro 27,525
14 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach 26,943
15 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 18,769

16 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood 17,648
17 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn 16,910
18 Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington 15,736
19 Boston-Cambridge-Newton 15,511
20 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise 14,304

21 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 13,080
22 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 12,842
23 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson 12,568
24 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk 11,724
25 Honolulu 10,539

26 Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater 10,401
27 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford 9,923
28 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 8,082
29 Salt Lake City 7,822
30 Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown 7,582

31 Tucson 7,353
32 Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown 7,242
33 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia 6,858
34 St Louis 6,661
35 Raleigh-Cary 6,565

36 Nashville-Franklin-Murfreesboro 6,146
37 Columbus(OH) 6,093
38 Stockton 5,918
39 Fresno 5,481
40 Cincinnati 5,368

41 Pittsburgh 4,744
42 New Haven-Milford 4,675
43 Cleveland-Elyria 4,304
44 Ogden-Clearfield 4,289
45 Rochester(NY) 4,151

46 Jacksonville 4,064
47 Kansas City 4,040
48 Provo-Orem 3,876
49 Albany Schenectady-Troy 3,853
50 Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson 3,712

report and ranking here:
https://www.storagecafe.com/blog/bes...electric-cars/

[btownboss4]

Honestly Hartford seems like such an outlier. It’s per capita rate is like double Boston. It’s like 50% higher than anywhere in the northeast.

Then the west coast is driven by an extra $1.25 in gas prices

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Honestly Hartford seems like such an outlier. It’s per capita rate is like double Boston. It’s like 50% higher than anywhere in the northeast.

Then the west coast is driven by an extra $1.25 in gas prices

I think the data in my post is from 2020, the numbers since then are amazing all over the country.

Anyway,

STATE EV CHARGING STATIONS
1 California 14,422
2 New York 3,076
3 Florida 2,610
4 Texas 2,329
5 Massachusetts 2,258
6 Washington 1,657
7 Colorado 1,629
8 Georgia 1,531
9 Maryland 1,242
10 Pennsylvania 1,186

https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/c...cial-benefits/

[Craziaskowboi]

Coal mining is bad. It creates lots of environmental problems. Rare earth mining, however, is totally different. It occurs on the other side of the world, so all the environmental problems associated with mining are out of sight and out of mind.

[mjtinmemphis]

Not surprised by the rankings. A lot of this has to do with gas prices and costs of ownership.

[masssachoicetts]

Boston is very low, especially with the amount of charging ports in MA

Any ideas why?

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

Honestly Hartford seems like such an outlier. It’s per capita rate is like double Boston. It’s like 50% higher than anywhere in the northeast.

Then the west coast is driven by an extra $1.25 in gas prices

+further more, New Haven is too. Very high. Proud of CT

[ShenardL]

Originally Posted by mjtinmemphis

Not surprised by the rankings. A lot of this has to do with gas prices and costs of ownership.

Yeah, there are pros and cons of owning a Tesla Model S. It's the only car I've ever owned that gets better over time, meaning features I didn't have when I bought the car are there now: Sentry mode, dashcam recording, side cameras, new apps like Spotify being added, etc. I pay around $30 a month for electricity charging the car versus $300 a month in gas for my ICE. Cons would be range (though I have an ICE vehicle for road trips and I prefer taking a plane). Also, the costs for repairs. They want $3,000 for a headlight replacement, and there are no other repair shops since Tesla owns all the parts and won't sell them to anyone.

[Hemlock140]

The Tesla buyer is a little different than the other EV buyers, they seem less worried about gas prices or the greenhouse gas, and more interested in the latest technology and showing off that they can afford a Tesla. We have the same situation as the OP, here in the Redmond/Sammamish/Issaquah area, with all of the Amazon and Microsoft tech workers and managers. You might go a week or more without seeing a Leaf, Bolt or other cheaper EV, but Teslas are all over the place. We drove 6 miles from Costco home the other day and counted 22 of them passing the other direction. At the Home Depot/Fred Meyer parking lot in Issaquah there are 8 super chargers, and there are Teslas lined up there in the evenings waiting their turn.

[waronxmas]

I figured this list would just mirror the largest metros in the country by and large, but I guess that doesn't account for the love of big ol' gas guzzling trucks in Texas.