Battery-electric vehicles (BEV) are now hitting an all-time record of 22.2% market share in the state – more than twice the national BEV market share.
Plus four more in extended family. Nobody wants to ever pay attention to gas station prices, get smog checks, or spew smoke into the air.
I wonder what the recidivism rate (for lack of a better term) is for EV drivers? I don’t think ill ever buy another pure ICE vehicle ever again
Good question. I also don’t intend to ever go back, but I’ve had my BEV vehicle less than a year, so it may depend on how well it holds up.
Of course it may also depend on whether ICE vehicles are sold anymore by the time I get a different vehicle. Hopefully I’m fine with my existing vehicle 10+ years and hopefully there will no longer be new ICE vehicles for sale
Which did you get? I think I can see a gas truck if I ever actually had need for it, but like you said it’s hard to know where the infrastructure will be in a decade, but if the rate of people leaving EVs is low this type of stuff is going to be pretty locked in moving forward.
I have a model y and so far it’s a fantastic car (no matter what opinions the CEO has). I live in the northeast US, so there are lots of superchargers around. I mostly charge at home, but I can also charge at work.
My state is one of those currently planning to end sale of new ICE cars in 2035
At one point I hadn’t charged my car and was deciding whether to goto my sort of local Ikea, and discovered there were three supercharger stations on the way.
This summer I did my first real road trip, 1,200+ miles over a week, and the supercharger network made it easy. Part of it was in upstate NY, away from any metro areas so the chargers were much farther apart, but still, the trip planning software made it easy. If you can charge at home and live near a city, the infrastructure seems to be there now
I saw a study about 5 years ago that showed over 90% of ev owners expected their next car to be electric. I just replaced my first ev with another ev.
Idk, but once I tried an ebike and efoil (and local lightrail), I don’t think I want ICE anything ever again. I love the torque and the pennies to recharge.
