Full Title: Assessment of Light-Duty Plug-in Electric Vehicles in the United States, 2010 – 2021
Author(s): David Gohlke, Yan Zhou, Xinyi Wu, and Calista Courtney
Publisher(s): Argonne National Laboratory
Publication Date: November 20, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
The number of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) sold in the United States has consistently grown since 2010, reaching 4% of the light-duty vehicle market in 2021. This report examines how the characteristics for these PEVs has changed over this decade, evaluating range, energy efficiency, costs, and performance. Given the vehicle characteristics, this report estimates miles driven, electricity consumption, petroleum reduction, and greenhouse gas emissions attributable to electric vehicles. This report also explores vehicle manufacturing and battery production, considering supply chains from battery cells to assembly. We estimate that electric vehicles have driven 68 billion miles on electricity since 2010, thereby reducing national gasoline consumption by 0.54% in 2021 and 2.5 billion gallons cumulatively through 2021.