Posted on 02/21/2023 4:52:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Electric vehicles accounted for 5.6 per cent of new light-vehicle registrations in the United States last year, a significant jump from the 3.1 per cent of 2021, and while various new carmakers entered the EV race, Tesla continues to dominate.
Data from Experian reveals that some 756,534 new EVs were registered in the United States last year, a 57 per cent increase. This came despite sales across the overall market falling by 11 per cent to 13.6 million.
Tesla’s share of the EV market fell from 71 per cent to 64 per cent with it registering a total of 484,351 new vehicles locally throughout 2022. That represented a 41 per cent jump over 2021 and was spearheaded by the Model Y that shifted 228,313 units, Auto News reports. Of the five best-selling EVs in the U.S. last year, four of them were Tesla models, namely the Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X.
Ford was the second-best seller of electric vehicles in the U.S. in 2022, capturing a 7.5 per cent slice of the market. It beat out Chevrolet with its 4.8 per cent share of the market, sitting above Kia with 3.8 per cent and Hyundai with 3.5 per cent.
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A) EV's tend to be new cars = new car owners don't have to buy a new car for a while.
B) Only a small percentage of the population want an EV. Once everyone who wants one gets one then the sales will decline like your MPGe while driving 90.
Tesla’s gonna go bankrupt any moment now... any moment... (/FReeper Luddites.)
It IS funny how that car, once embarrassing, looks pretty damned sweet now.
There is a place for electric cars in cities.
Anywhere else, they are far more environmentally destructive than a gasoline vehicle. The mining for battery metals alone is far worse than the lifetime pollution from a normal car.
Nothing “Luddite” about reality.
In case you’re wondering how it passes the emissions test, a $5 bill slipped to the technician can do wonders.
Does Clark Griswold no you stole his car?
“know”
I respectfully disagree. IMHO a couple considering buying an EV should think twice if they live in the city where there's liable to be less ability to charge at home relative to the suburbs and rural areas. Then there's the matter of not having to drive as far anyway to work if you live in the city (no real gas savings by going EV relative to living in the suburbs or rural areas and having to drive a long way to work).
Either way it should be a free market decision and not forced onto us like the Dims do with EV's and everything else they want.
EVs are a novelty promoted by naive people oblivious to long term consequences. In ten years the reality of battery replacement, impossibility of practical charging capabilities, weight of vehicle (destruction to roads and parking garages), spontaneous fires, etc, will spell the demise of this insane fad.
A friend of mine just picked up a new car last week. He had ordered it in November … of 2021.
It will go down based on what you said, another reason will have a catastrophic effect on EV sales is if we get in a war with or sanction China.
The Biden Administration is threatening China over it’s aid to Russia in the war and telling them to not give Russia lethal aid, which China will surely do eventually.
At that point do we sanction China the same way we sanctioned Russia, or do we wait until China decides to take Taiwan, either way since China makes the batteries for the vast majority of the EVs, no batteries equal no EVs getting made, which means companies like Tesla are finished and the other companies like Ford, GM, etc will be severely impacted.
I’m planning on a new car in a year or so. So I’m looking now, for that reason.
Nope. China is the new gay black who can do no wrong in the Dims' eyes because they're communist and they hate America, just like the Dims do. Look at how much the Dims loved Russia until they quit being communist.
The whole EV thing works if you accept the notion that America, the most innovative and advanced country in the modern world, can abandon an infrastructure to support ICE's and replace it with an infrastructure to support EV's in about 10 years. And clean up all the messy leftovers.
Ah, the Dick Cavett Collection from Sears on the left. 70’s sartorial supremacy.
What was on the cutting room floor!????!
Now here's a top of the line trim for the more discerning suburban Dad...
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