Brice Wallace
Utah is lagging the national average for electric vehicle sales but fares better when it comes to the ratio of EVs for public ports.
A state-by-state analysis by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation for the first quarter of 2024 indicates that EVs represented 8.4 percent of new light-duty vehicle sales in Utah. That’s down from 10 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023 and 9 percent in the 2023 first quarter. It also is short of the national average of 9.3 percent of new light-duty vehicle sales in the 2024 first quarter.
Despite the slippage, Utah is No. 16 among states for EV market share.
The “Get Connected Electric Vehicle Report” indicates that 2,946 EVs were sold in Utah in the first quarter. Nationally, about Please log in to see the rest of this story.
