Florida’s politics are the polar reverse of California’s. But the house state of President Trump is second solely to California in EV gross sales.
That gross sales development, leaving Florida solidly within the prime place after California, primarily based on cumulative EV registrations, was pushed not by incentives however primarily by EV enthusiasm within the populous central area of Florida. Greater than 17,000 EVs have been newly registered within the 9 counties of Central Florida between November 2023 and November 2024, in response to a latest examination of this gross sales development by the Orlando Sentinel.
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For the total 12 months of 2024, Central Florida’s EV registrations grew 15.2%, surging previous the nationwide common of 9.4%. And registrations in EVs in Orange County, the place Orlando is, surged 46% year-over-year. It is an acceleration of a development that is been happening for years now. Florida is an anomaly and, like Texas, it is posted comparatively robust EV development through the years with out important state incentives.
In 2023 and 2024 EV adoption continued to turn out to be extra polarized by state. Which will even be occurring on an area stage in Florida, which is not as homogeneous because it seems.
The remainder of the nation tends to see Florida as filled with retirees, however even by 2030, official state projections recommend that individuals aged 65 and up will not be the biggest demographic group within the state. That leaves extra room for Gen X and Millennials, who earlier research have proven have a tendency to purchase extra EVs than Boomers, whereas the latter group controls coverage choices associated to them.
And whereas the state authorities hasn’t precisely been pro-EV, that hasn’t stopped efforts to develop charging infrastructure in Florida. In 2022, Invisible City Charging (IUC) introduced plans to put in 6,000 chargers—doubling the variety of chargers within the state. The chargers are primarily 80-amp Degree 2 AC items for public areas and housing developments, IUC stated on the time.
