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US West = EV Adoption Champion In USA

It’s widely known that California is the center of US electric vehicle adoption. California leads the country in terms of overall electric vehicle (EV) sales as well as EV market share of new vehicle sales. It’s also where Tesla was born and where nearly every US EV startup pops up.

But there are other states that are also well ahead of the US average for EV market share … and they’re basically all in the west.

Workers put the finishing touches on installing a plug-in electric vehicle charger that is part of the West Coast Electric Highway. Image Credit: Columbia-Willamette Clean Cities Coalition.

Clean Cities Coalitions Charge Up Plug-In Electric Vehicles

This article originally appeared on the website of the US Department of Energy. By Shannon Brescher Shea, Communications Manager, Clean Cities Program This article is part of the Energy.gov series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Energy Department’s Clean Cities initiative by highlighting the work of some of the community-based coalitions that … [continued]