“If California were its own country it would be the second-largest consumer of PEVs in 2014, second only to the country that it is largely helping to prop up.”
Here are the sales numbers for California in 2014:
29,935 plug-in hybrids
29,536 battery electric cars
59,471 total
That total would put California behind only the U.S. in terms of 2014 plug-in electric car registrations. California managed to squeak ahead of China (53,082 plug-in electric cars registered in 2014) and blow by Japan (30,390). . . .
“Since reports in August 2014 of California contributing 40 percent of the volume of all PEVs bought in the U.S. since 2010, the state increased to 45.1 percent by year’s end with 129,470 total units out of 286,842 PEVs sold in America since 2010.”
