Even so, electric vehicles are driven 29% less than your average gas-powered car in US car auto cars
There are likely a number of reasons for this discrepancy, including the comparatively small number of EV owners, their position as a second vehicle, and the novelty of the technology. However,points out that range is likely having a big impact on these results. To start with, the number of miles a vehicle drives in a year is strongly correlated to how far it can go per charge.
“Looking at 3-year-old electric cars, we see EV owners willing to drive an additional 23 miles per year for every additional mile of range their vehicle offers,” said Brauer. “That means EVs, on average, need an additional 161 miles of range to get them to the 12,578-mile annual driving distance we see from traditional, gasoline-powered vehicles.
Intriguingly, the connection between driving range and miles driven per year doesn’t just hold for EVs. The average ICE vehicle gets 24.7 MPG, according to the EPA, and has an 18 gallon fuel tank. That means that it can go around 444 miles per tank, or 165 miles farther than an EV. So, in order for EV drivers to go as far as ICE drivers in a year, manufacturers would have to make them go as far per charge as ICE vehicles go per tank.
That adds a fascinating shade of nuance to the problem of range anxiety, and one that may be expensive to account for. The study found that based on the prices of vehicles on the market, excluding thebecause of its pricing , consumers are paying an additional $10,000 to get an extra 26.5 miles of battery range. This means that an EV with 440 miles of range would cost an estimated $60,000 more than today’s average EV, increasing their price to an unfeasible $105,147.
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