With the overall average range of electric vehicles available in the US headed toward 300 miles in the next few years, range as the key hurdle to adoption is being surpassed by concerns about charging speed and infrastructure.
The electric vehicle community has been in a huge dither the last few days after Ivan Penn, energy reporter for the New York Times wrote what many felt was a hit job on electric vehicles. In fact the article got some things wrong about EVs and road tips, but it also revealed some shortcomings of legacy automakers’ EVs.
The average range of BEVs available in the US will reach an estimated 302 miles and have a median range of 293 by the end of 2023, a key finding from our updated and latest EVAdoption forecast.
We explore the various factors - including autonomous vehicles, ride sharing, super fast charging rates, BEV/PHEV mix and more - that will affect what will eventually become the “ideal” ratio of EVs to charging stations in a regional market.
Since 2011 through projected model upgrades for 2019, automakers will have increased the battery range of their BEV models an average of 38 miles each upgrade - a cumulative 15%…
Road trips are a make or break factor for mass adoption of electric vehicles in the US. Unlike much of Europe and many other parts of the world, the US…
To achieve adoption by the late majority and laggards, EVs will need a range of 500 miles. If you’ve spit out your coffee at this idea, pull up a chair…
Will vehicle range be the biggest hurdle to achieving adoption of electric vehicles by late adopters and laggards in the US? Cost of EVs, availability of attractive models of the…
In this weeks "stat of the week," we dive into analyzing the range, MSRP, battery pack size and cost per mile of range/battery pack kWh for battery electric vehicles (BEVs).…
The median range across the 13* currently available battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is 124 miles, while the average battery range is 173 miles, based on some new EVAdoption analysis. The average…