More Than Half of US Car Sales Will Be Electric by 2030
Biden’s climate spending is set to kickstart the market for EVs, according to a new forecast from BloombergNEF.
A ChargePoint electric vehicle charging station.
Photographer: Taehoon Kim/BloombergJust over half of passenger cars sold in the US will be electric vehicles by 2030, according to a report from BloombergNEF, thanks in part to consumer incentives included in the $374 billion in new climate spending enacted by President Joe Biden.
Those incentives, among them a point-of-sale tax credit of up to $7,500 for a new EV purchase, are likely to boost the pace of adoption, BloombergNEF analysts found in the report. Prior to passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, projections for EV sales by 2030 2030 came in at 43% of the US market. With the climate-spending measure in place, that estimate was revised upwards to 52%.