Topic: American EVs reduced gasoline consumption by just 0.54% in 2021 (Read 191 times)

The main thing is that the process of switching to electric cars and increasing their power and efficiency has begun. After some time, when the quantity turns into quality, the states will first tighten the requirements for gasoline and diesel cars, and then completely ban their production and operation.
The fight against global climate change will take precedence over the corrupt interests of the gasoline corporations that have dictated their terms in this market for more than a century. This is a matter of human survival.

The time for lithium batteries is coming to an end... No, it will not be in 2023, but I think that by 2025-2027 the industrial production of lithium-based batteries will decrease, and the production of alternative batteries technologically close to supercapacitor technology will grow .
There are many reasons - the demand for lithium, its price, and processing technologies ... The industry (automotive in the first place) needs batteries that are easy to manufacture, do not depend on scarce resources, with a cheap production and processing cycle.

Because of the prices of those spare batteries and other factors which have to do with the Lithium processing/availability, I have seen some speculation around the internet that in the near future, when EV start to replace gasoline vehicles by law, most of the people will have to opt for public or shared transportation, instead of having personal vehicles, which I believe it makes sense to the environmental planning of many countries.

It is just speculation, tho.

Another issue with ev is when their batteries can no longer hold charge or if they get damaged in any way, there is a huge repair bill and it’s not sustainable. Even with cars like the Chevy bolt which are cheaper.

For a model 3 the new battery is somewhere like $15K. And it’s needs to be new. Replacing one battery cell doesn’t always work. And most likely the battery prices will increase in the near future. MSRP was originally like $30k for model 3 and the battery is more than half the price.

They are really just focusing on a single point of view on which they didnt really see up on huge scale or on general which they didnt realize on what are the things needed to make up these batteries or even

with that charging matter which do really still make out that use of fossil fuels on the first place which i do agree on what you had said.They are really just that covering or minding about
on smaller scale but not actually solving out the entire problem.

Its no surprise that these things doesnt really make out huge changes in numbers or into those intents that they are trying to solve out.
Somehow, this problem wont really be changed up nor can be resolved on a short time which it is really that somewhat anticipated that Fuel is still mainly
needed for most operations and it is really that connected on every industry and its existence is still relevant.

That clearly suggests us that we are not producing the EV's at faster rates and neither there is good adoption of the same.

So it sounds like the folks that are purchasing EV's aren't the ones that are driving enough for it to make any dent in gasoline consumption which mean the pollution created by producing those EV's and charging them probably weren't worth it in the first place.

Folks tend to forget the amount of pollution associated with manufacturing EV batteries or even the energy required to charge them in the first place. All of it is fossil fuel based. Reduce gasoline consumption and the problem of carbon emissions doesn't magically go away.

That clearly suggests us that we are not producing the EV's at faster rates and neither there is good adoption of the same.

If you checkout the data then we only have around 6-7 million Electric Vehicles registered in the USA. If this data is compared with the conventional cars then it will blow your mind. The conventional cars that were registered by the year 2021 are around 289 million cars.

I mean that is sort of ratio which tells us why gasoline consumption is reduced by only 0.54% The article does not take into consideration the actual figures such EV vs Conventional car ratio.

Following is the data associated with conventional cars that were registered by the end of different years within America. That is obvious number considering the fact that EV's are brand new in the market and are not trend setter as of yet!

What America is doing is reducing its dependence on gasoline, which portion cannot last for a long time. Because America has observed that gasoline supplies are starting to run low, supplies from countries that own oil are also decreasing due to internal conflicts that have damaged America's harmony with other major gasoline-producing countries such as Iraq, Canada, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. They also need long-term supply to be able to control the movement of petroleum in the future. This innovation makes us even more confident with the alternatives that have been provided for the next few years.

With the expected boom of the Electric Vehicles market, various measures need to be set up. For instance, in order to support the 18.7 million EV estimate in 2030, automakers must install about 9.6 million charge ports at workplaces, homes, and public places. This is a major investment in terms of EV charging infrastructure.

The data is in a new report on EV use from Argonne National Lab.

Electric vehicles have never been more popular. Just about every automaker is in the midst of an electrification effort, spurred on by impending government regulations around the world aimed at reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. But is the movement having an effect? Here in the US, plug-in vehicles are selling better than ever, despite supply chain shortages and frequent hefty dealership markups.

According to Argonne National Lab, between 2010 and the end of 2021, the US had bought more than 2.1 million plug-in vehicles, including 1.3 million battery EVs. That sounds like a very impressive number, but bear in mind that's out of a total national vehicle pool of nearly 276 million cars and trucks. Argonne estimates that despite all these plug-ins, national gasoline consumption was reduced by just 0.54 percent in 2021.

In total, Argonne calculates that US plug-in vehicles have driven nearly 70 billion miles since 2010, consuming 22 TWh of energy in the process. That's displaced the use of more than 2.5 billion gallons of gasoline and 19 million tons of greenhouse gases, Argonne reports, although for context, the US consumed about 369 million gallons of gasoline a day in 2021. For 2021 specifically, plug-in vehicles saved about 690 million gallons of gasoline—about two days of consumption—and reduced CO2 emissions by 5.4 million metric tons, consuming 6.1 TWh in the process.

The biggest growth in plug-in sales occurred in 2021, more than doubling from the previous year from 308,000 vehicles to 634,000. That's probably not too surprising, given how many new EVs reached the market last year. In fact, BEV sales increased 92 percent to 457,000 vehicles, with plug-in hybrid EV sales increasing by 150 percent to 175,000.

Argonne assumed that plug-in drivers behave much like their gasoline-powered counterparts but applied a utility factor to PHEVs based on battery size and a mileage adjustment factor based on EPA-estimated range for BEVs, with the baseline being an internal combustion engine vehicle driving 13,500 miles (21,727 km), with a mix of 57 percent highway driving and 43 percent city driving. Proportional reductions in annual mileage due to COVID-19 were applied for 2020 and 2021 as well.

Given that plug-in vehicles represent almost 1 percent of all light vehicles on the road in the US, it's disappointing that the reduction in gasoline usage was just more than half a percent.

However, Argonne provides evidence against naysayers who think EV adoption will crash the electrical grid—in 2021, charging EVs accounted for only 0.15 percent of all US electricity consumption. Interestingly, Argonne found that while BEV efficiency has decreased marginally since 2018, PHEV electrical range efficiency actually dropped dramatically between 2019 and 2021, which Argonne blames on the increasing size and weight of electrified SUVs.

This report is not an argument against people buying EVs, of course; any gas saving is an improvement on turning that gasoline into atmospheric pollution that worsens climate change. But it should be clear now that EVs on their own are not a panacea to our transport-related climate problems, and the future will require many more people to walk, cycle, or take the bus to get to where they're going.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/11/american-evs-reduced-gasoline-consumption-by-just-0-54-in-2021/