Some holiday cheer for Colorado EV drivers

The Colorado Governor’s Energy Office recently highlighted progress the state is making towards its goal of replacing all light-duty vehicles with non-polluting or zero-emission vehicles by 2050, without resorting to any bans on ICEs. The state’s progress is being monitored by a third party, Atlas Policy, which obtains some funding from the Governor’s Energy Office.  Atlas Policy has a delightful web site: https:\\atlaspolicy.com/evaluateCO, which is well worth a look. The following data come from that site, accessed 14 Dec 2022.

Colorado has more public chargers than you might expect:

• 726 high-speed chargers (Level III)
• 3777 Level II ports

Those Level III chargers in our area are in: Montrose, Cimarron, Ouray, Lake City, Creede, Telluride, Del Norte, Pagosa Springs, Wolf Creek Ski Area, Purgatory Ski Area, Durango Transit Center, and Durango Outdoor Exchange.

Colorado has many more BEVs (all-electric) than Plug-in Hybrid EVs (PHEV) on the road. Together these constitute 7.3% of new registrations of light-duty vehicles:

• 48,6660 BEVs
• 19,992 PHEVs

Here are the top models on the road in Colorado (all except those labeled PHEV are BEVs):

• Tesla Model 3                            12,251
• Tesla Model Y                             9,957
• Nissan Leaf                                 7,386
• Tesla Model S                            3,845
• Chevy Volt                                  3,091
• Tesla Model X                             2,519
• Jeep Wrangler 4xe PHEV       1,800
• Chevy Bolt                                   1,768
• BMW x5 PHEV                           1,723
• Ford Mach E                               1,573