Even if the numbers don’t quite show it, regional planner Jeff King knows the shift to electric vehicles is taking off, and quite rapidly.
EVs account for about 2 percent of the more-than 13 million registered vehicles in the District, Maryland and Virginia, but their number of registrations has risen about 65-fold in the past decade. In the Washington area, EVs and hybrids account for nearly 5 percent of light-duty vehicles.“They’re here and we know there are going to be more,” said King, head of climate, energy and air programs at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the region’s planning body.
The spigot has been opened. [Car manufacturers] are going to start selling more electric cars. The whole market’s moving that way. Each year, we’re also seeing that the auto manufacturers are adding more vehicles to their product line. This should expand options for consumers who are interested in purchasing electric vehicles. We anticipate that this trend will continue for the years to come. The supply-chain issues are easing somewhat, so manufacturers should be getting more vehicles out to their dealer lots for sale. Once that gets moving again, there will be more options for consumers to choose from.
From a policy standpoint, there have been attempts at [getting developers of] new multifamily residential construction to make the parking area EV-infrastructure ready. They don’t necessarily have to put in the charger, but to lay the conduit so that when the time comes, it’s cheaper to run the wires.Montgomery County is looking at the concept of electric vehicle purchasing cooperatives.
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