Mapped: Electric Vehicle Adoption by State

Visual Capitalist ^ | 08/22/2024 | Bruno Venditti

[SeekAndFind]

In 2023, sales of electric vehicles (EVs) passed the 1.6 million mark.

To visualize where EVs are the most popular, Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti maps the number of registered EVs per 100,000 people by state as of June 2024.

The vehicle registration data is sourced from the U.S. Department of Energy, while population data is from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Only all-electric vehicles are included on the map.

California Leads EV Adoption

California has the highest number of electric vehicles, with 1.1 million. Florida follows with 231,000 EVs, and Texas ranks third with 210,000.

When considering EVs per 100,000 people, California also leads with 3,026 cars per 100,000 people, followed by Washington, Hawaii, and Oregon.

U.S. State	EVs per 100k people
California	3026
Washington	1805
Hawaii	1686
Oregon	1422
Colorado	1405
Nevada	1379
New Jersey	1349
Arizona	1139
Vermont	1129
District of Columbia	1115
Utah	1078
Maryland	1050
Florida	1024
Massachusetts	983
Connecticut	818
Georgia	771
Delaware	745
Illinois	741
Texas	690
New Hampshire	660
New York	622
Minnesota	591
North Carolina	589
Oklahoma	564
Rhode Island	542
Pennsylvania	499
Maine	489
Michigan	454
New Mexico	452
Tennessee	428
Idaho	406
Missouri	398
Ohio	391
Montana	373
South Carolina	358
Kansas	354
Indiana	350
Alaska	346
Nebraska	319
Iowa	260
Kentucky	238
Alabama	232
Arkansas	214
South Dakota	169
Louisiana	165
North Dakota	112
Mississippi	110

Mississippi has the fewest electric vehicles proportionally, with only 110 EVs per 100,000 people. North Dakota has a similar lack of EVs, with 112 per 100,000 people in the state.

Additionally, California has the highest number of EV charging stations, with over 15,000, making up 29% of all charging stations in America. As of 2022, the Golden State had nearly double the number of chargers compared to the next three states combined: New York, Florida, and Texas.

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[cyclotic]

I’ll be traveling through northern Washington and Idaho next week for my job. I booked hotels yesterday. The towns I would be staying in had no more than three hotels. One had none. I booked at a log lodge.

I’m kinda doubting a huge EV infrastructure.

[Z28.310]

Where’s the map of ‘60’s era muscles cars with over 400hp?

Now THERE’S a stat I’d be interested in!

...that and rubber band powered balsa wood airplanes of course.

So much more interesting than coal powered Johnny Cabs

[Sicon]

"It seems that EV’s are one of those products that are bought with little thought to if it’s practical for their situation."

Ignorance and virtue signaling are powerful emotional forces.

[bert]

However Tesla is the exception. Tesla is the cutting edge of automotive and semi truck technology.

[bert]

Tesla has a heat pump

[EVO X]

I’m kinda doubting a huge EV infrastructure.

Once you get off a rural interstate, there is none unless it is a place where the elite meet to eat.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

If electric cars are so great why did not the Citicar take off like a rocket back in 1975? I saw plenty of them on new car lots but never one on the streets. Never.

https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images-webp/news/the-american-built-citicar-was-an-ev-that-sold-by-the-thousands-in-the-1970s-169045-7.jpg.webp

[EnderWiggin1970]

Good grief. ECAT is a scam that has been going around for a LONG time. I remember being intrigued by it at least 12-15 years ago. If it was real it would have changed the world a long time ago. Astonished to see it pop up yet again.

[oldtech]

The absurdities of one of these EVs should have been evident to most folks long ago. If everything went exactly as planned, they would probably still be not quite as efficient as a ICE vehicle, but there are always unexpected little things that turn up requiring extra power. Temperature changes, hills, extra stops & more. Not much of a problem with ICEs. In a near-ideal situation using an EV, I would think the initial cost, & later on the cost of a replacement battery (especially with a used vehicle) would keep the average driver from ever owning one. As I see it (for the average person) there is no good reason to ever own an EV.

[Rockingham]

Major innovations tend to be marked by controversy and dispute and long gestation. A lot of lab curiosities, hobbyist devices, and secret one of things like the Antikythera mechanism never quite make it to commercial significance and wide use so as to become the advances they could have been. Electric transmission, radio, steam power, personal computing, airplanes, manned rocket flight, and many other technological developments began in obscurity and became useful in spite of skeptics. Perhaps cold fusion will be like that.

Beyond question, there is more interest and positive published reports now in the field of cold fusion or LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) than ever before. Will Andrea Rossi and his ECAT prove out? I suspect that he is onto something. As most any patent lawyer or biographer can tell you, inventors tend to be squirrely and troublesome people, so I am inclined to make allowances for Rossi and await developments.

[central_va]

Tesla is the cutting edge of automotive and semi truck technology.

I knew it, you are a comedy writer.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Nope. It's a scam. It's just a question of how long until you come around to that conclusion as I did. If it worked, it would have changed the world a long time ago. Whereas, as a scam, it just keeps snagging new victims along the way.

This isn't a case of having a long gestation time - either a prototype works transparently, or it doesn't and its all smoke and mirrors. You are literally regurgitating the same names and jargon I was investigating 15 years ago! I'm impressed at the durability of this scam.

[Rockingham]

Just what do you dispute as a scam? The positive reports of cold fusion and LENR? Or just the ECAT and Andrea Rossi? And, if results are your measure, isn’t hot fusion the greater, longer, and more expensive scam in that decades and many billions of dollars have been spent without a single commercially viable hot fusion prototype reactor yet appearing?

[Steely Tom]

That helps a little, depending on climate.

[bert]

I would advise you that some enlightenment on the subject of Tesla technical superiority is in order. Tesla is in fact the current leader in manufacturing and design technology.

I fully understand your erroneous belief in the status of the Big Three American auto manufacturers. I don’t hold that against you because learning about Tesla superiority requires some effort and study beyond the ordinary day to day. It also requires some knowledge base that you apparently don’t have regarding many technical matters.

Lastly, on a collateral subject, the other Elon Musk company SpaceX is the de facto current leader in rocket and space technology in the world. SpaceX has beat NASA, Boeing, and Russia in space vehicles. It is therefore not wise to be out of hand dismissive of Tesla.

I have no interest in EV’s as agents of change or saving the world with climate change. I merely point out that there is far more to Tesla than the failed and incompetent efforts of Ford, GM and Stelantis to attempt the electrification of their vehicles.