The US Added 1.2 Million EVs To The Grid Last Year, & Electricity Use Went Down - CleanTechnica
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With over 1 million new EVs plugging into garage outlets, home charging stations, and Superchargers, you’d think our electricity usage would have shot up dramatically. You’d be wrong.

2023 set another record for EV sales in the United States. About 1.2 million vehicles, or 7.6% of all sales, were electric according to Kelley Blue Book.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    Every step of this has been a fight against more conservative elements. I somewhat understand the LED light battles, since early versions were expensive and poor quality, but even things like increased efficiency standards and “EnergyStar” have always been a battle. Why wouldn’t you choose the appliance that works just like the old one but a little more efficiently? More importantly, why would you get upset that someone else chooses that?

    • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      9 months ago

      I think the biggest gripe with appliances are that they don’t last like they used to and it costs about the same to replace as to repair often times, not that they are more efficient.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        9 months ago

        Which is why conservatives are fighting for right to repair and regulation against planned obsolescence, right? Right?

        • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
          1·
          9 months ago

          LOL! There must be a limit to the faces that will be eaten by the Leopards Eating Faces Party. And my face is past that limit, I just know it when I hear the leopards talk about eating those other faces.