Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming a more and more common sight on the road these days, and they’re not just found in Silicon Valley anymore.
According to a press release on an analysis from the Alliance for Automotive Innovation—looking at the second quarter in 2024—they found that EVs accounted more than 9% of new light-duty vehicle sales, up slightly from the same quarter last year.
Ohio is a bit behind the national percentage, with EVs accounting for just more than 5% of new sales, with a total of 6,718 EVs sold. In the same quarter last year, they accounted for just more than 4% of sales.
According to the Electric Vehicle Quarterly Report, Ohio was ranked 30th in 2024 EV market share through the second quarter, at 4.70%. It likely comes as no surprise that California ranked first with 25.78% market share. North Dakota came in last place with 1.62%.
Ohio ranked better when it come to the ratio of EVs to public chargers, coming in at 21. According to the release, Ohio had a total of 80,710 EVs out on the road, with 3,867 public chargers to keep them going, leading to the ratio of 21 EVs to each charger.
That’s better than the national ratio, with 5.1 million EVs in the country and 177,330 public chargers. That’s a ratio of 29 EVs to each charger.