{"id":123026,"date":"2018-01-30T13:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=123026"},"modified":"2018-01-30T13:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T18:09:38","slug":"study-sees-california-hitting-1-5-mil-zev-target-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/01\/study-sees-california-hitting-1-5-mil-zev-target-by-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Sees California Hitting 1.5 Mil ZEV Target by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lower costs, longer range and improved charging should all boost EV demand, says study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite a slow start, California should be able to hit its ambitious goal of putting 1.5 million zero-emissions vehicles, or ZEVs, on the road by 2025, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Governor Jerry Brown last week announced plans to step that up a notch, with a goal of having 5 million ZEVs in use in California by 2025. That would likely cement the state\u2019s position as the greenest in the U.S., though the study also noted that the country is losing ground to China which it predicted will be adding as many as 7 million so-called New Energy Vehicles to its national fleet by the middle of the coming decade.<\/p>\n

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Stay Plugged In!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c2017 marked a turning point for electric vehicles,\u201d said F. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of California-based think tank Next 10, pointing to decline costs and increasing range, among other factors. \u201cThe growth we\u2019re seeing in California\u2019s ZEV market shows that the state is standing alongside leading countries in the transition to a cleaner transportation future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Golden State currently offers one of the most lucrative incentive programs in the country, after federal EV tax credits of up to $7,500 per vehicle. And as part of his 2030 plan, Gov. Brown said he wants state lawmakers to set aside another $2.5 billion for both buyer incentives and other moves to boost demand. That would include expanding the current base of 14,000 charging stations to 250,000, while increasing the number of hydrogen pumping stations from 31 today to 200.<\/p>\n

(For more on Gov. Brown’s plan, <\/em>Click Here<\/span><\/a>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to see 5 million zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are plenty of skeptics who question whether California\u2019s targets can be met. The Obama Administration fell well short of its goal of putting 1.5 million plug-based vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015. And sales of electrified vehicles of all sorts, including hybrids, plug-ins and BEVs, slowed substantially as gas prices fell.<\/p>\n

But momentum appears to be picking up, especially in green-minded California, noted a study for Next 10 conducted by research firm Beacon Economics. It found ZEV sales jumped 29.1% from 2016 to 2017, bringing that segment\u2019s share of the overall new vehicle market in the state to 4.5% last year, up from 3.6% in 2016. Nonetheless, the study suggested that the compounded annual growth rate needed to hit California\u2019s 2025 target is an aggressive 20 percent.<\/p>\n

(Plug-in vehicle sales surge past 1 million mark for first time. <\/em>Click Here<\/a>\u00a0for the first time.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>As of last October, more than 337,000 ZEVs were registered in California. Meanwhile the study estimated about 1 million ZEVs were sold worldwide last year.<\/p>\n

But as fast as demand has grown in California, it may not come close to keeping up with what is expected to happen in a number of overseas markets. Several countries, notably Norway and India, have already set schedules for phasing out gas- and diesel-powered vehicles. France, the UK, Germany and China are considering similar bans. Even if it doesn\u2019t move that far, China recently enacted its New Energy guidelines which will push rapid growth for battery-electric vehicles and other ZEV models.<\/p>\n

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Nissan expects the longer range of the Gen-2 Leaf will substantially increase its appeal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

China now has about 650,000 EVs on the road, and the study forecasts ZEVs will account for 20% of that market by 2025, which would mean the sale of as many as 7 million annually by then.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften with advanced technology, adoption hits a tipping point and then you see exponential growth \u2013 an s-curve \u2013 rather than incremental, linear rates of adoption. And zero-emission vehicles are following this pattern,\u201d said Adam Fowler, an economist at Beacon Economics.<\/p>\n

The new study is just one of several recent reports anticipating rapid growth in demand of ZEVs and, more broadly, hybrids and other clean vehicles. One, released last month by the Boston Consulting Group, estimated that by 2030 about a third of the vehicles sold in the U.S. will use some form of electrification.<\/p>\n

Looking further out, the Next 10 report estimates \u201cthat electric vehicles could be as ubiquitous in 2040 as smartphones are today.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a>\u00a0for more about the charging station network VW is funding across the U.S.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite a slow start, California should be able to hit its ambitious goal of putting 1.5 million zero-emissions vehicles, or ZEVs, on the road by 2025, according to a new study. And it predicts that by 2040, EVs will be “as ubiquitous as smartphones.” TheDetroitBureau.com has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151,123,287,319,155,158,154,139,291,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=123026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}