While electric cars are still far more popular on the West Coast than anywhere else in the US, their market share is growing at a rapid rate in some rural areas of the country. Mississippi, Utah and Wyoming have seen a surprising increase, according to a recent study.
Website iSeeCars analyzed more than 16.3 million car sales from one to five years old reported between May 2021 and April 2022 and during the calendar year 2014. It found that the percentage of electrified cars (a term that the group mixture, dip into the mixture and electric models) increased by 240.9% in Mississippi from 2014 to 2022. Hawaii came in second with an increase of 116.5 percent, followed by Utah, Maryland and Wyoming with 97%, 84, respectively. .3% and 79.1%. Texas comes in at seventh place with a 76.9% increase from 2014 to 2022.
While an increase of nearly 241% is impressive, that statistic doesn’t tell the whole story. It brought the share of electrified cars in Mississippi from 0.9% to 3.1%, still well below the national average of 3.4%. Utah’s stands at 4.5%, while Wyoming is at 1.7%. For context, the study fixed the California average at 8.3%, up 75.2% from 2014 and Washington state at 6.3%, up 65.9%.
Interestingly, the electric vehicle market share fell in some states from 2014 to 2022. South Carolina and South Dakota fell 11.3% and 2.8% respectively, while Florida’s percentage remained the same. In those states, electric vehicles have a market share of 1.9%, 1.3% and 2.4%, respectively. Unsurprisingly, states with a higher percentage of electrified cars tend to have more efficient fleets.
Several factors influence the rate of electric car adoption nationwide, including population density, geography, and climate. However, a few are less obvious. Research indicates that “Hawaii is above average gas price and island geography, limiting long driving distances, allowing tram ownership” and that Nissan’s decide to build Electric Car in Mississippi can boost local sales. On the other hand, the study notes that electric cars lost market share in South Carolina in part due to the lack of purchasing incentives, and that “the state’s economic statistics show that the higher costs of hybrids and electric vehicles drive down prices. they’re out of reach for many people.”
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