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