{"id":22461,"date":"2023-01-22T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5f146eb7-4cfe-4605-93c9-2a6b626637f712"},"modified":"2023-01-22T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T18:40:37","slug":"zero-emission-vehicles-made-up-nearly-19-percent-of-car-sales-in-california-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/zero-emission-vehicles-made-up-nearly-19-percent-of-car-sales-in-california-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-emission vehicles made up nearly 19 percent of car sales in California last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/zero-emission-vehicles-made-up-nearly-19-percent-of-car-sales-in-california-last-year.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles accounted for 18.8 percent of all new car sales in California this past year, according to data <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>shared on Friday<\/ins><\/span> by the state\u2019s Energy Commission (CEC). In 2022, California residents bought 345,818 zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), a 38 percent increase from a year ago and a 138 percent jump compared to 2020. In what should come as no surprise, Tesla vehicles made up most of the ZEVs people in California bought last year. About two-thirds of the 345,000 ZEVs sold in the state in 2022 were made by the automaker, per France\u2019s <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>AFP News Agency<\/ins><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>With EVs and other zero-emission vehicles making up nearly one-fifth of new car sales in California, the state still has some work to do on the adoption front. In Norway, for instance, electric vehicles made up <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>65 percent of new car sales in 2021<\/ins><\/span> and <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>79.3 percent<\/ins><\/span> in 2022. That said, the country\u2019s largest car market did some heavy lifting relative to the rest of the US. The CEC says 40 percent of all ZEVs sold in the US were sold in California. It\u2019s also worth taking a moment to point to the scale of the California car market. When EVs made up 65 percent of new car sales in Norway, the country\u2019s dealerships sold 113,715 EVs. That\u2019s about a third of the number of zero-emission vehicles sold in California last year.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In any case, EV adoption in California is likely to increase significantly over the next few years. Ahead of the state\u2019s <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>2035 ban<\/ins><\/span> on the sale of new gasoline and diesel-powered cars, the CEC announced last month it would <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>spend about $2.6 billion<\/ins><\/span> to build 90,000 new chargers across the state. The California Air Resources Board set aside another <span class=\"waslinkname\">$2.6 billion<\/span> to incentivize consumers and companies to switch to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles accounted for 18.8 percent of all new car sales in California this past year, according to data shared on Friday by the state\u2019s Energy Commission (CEC). In 2022, California residents bought 345,818 zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), a 38 percent increase from a year ago and a 138 percent jump &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22461"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}