The dramatic proliferation of electric vehicles has cut US gas consumption, just by less than EV advocates were hoping for. Like. . . way, way less.
, between 2010 and the end of 2021, more than 2.1 million plug-in vehicles were sold in the US, including 1.3 million battery EVs. That sounds like a very impressive number, but bear in mind, that's out of a total national vehicle pool of. Argonne estimates that despite all these plug-ins, national gasoline consumption was reduced by just 0.54 percent in 2021.
Argonne assumed that plug-in drivers behave much like their gasoline-powered counterparts but applied a utility factor to PHEVs based on battery size and a mileage adjustment factor based on EPA-estimated range for BEVs, with the baseline being an internal combustion engine vehicle driving 13,500 miles , with a mix of 57 percent highway driving and 43 percent city driving. Proportional reductions in annual mileage due to Covid-19 were applied for 2020 and 2021 as well.
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