San Jose

Exclusive Interview: Mayor of America’s 10th Largest City on Benefits & Challenges of Electrification

I’ve been following San Jose’s Mayor, Sam Liccardo, for some time. In 2019, I heard from environmentalists in California about how he was instrumental in getting all-electric building legislation through the city council of the nation’s 10th largest city. I’ve also been tracking San Jose’s nation-leading efforts in clean electricity and electric vehicles.

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.