According to the authoritative data released by the US Energy Information Administration, in 2023, the power consumption of American light vehicles surpassed the railway system for the first time and became a new growth point in the transportation field. This change is mainly due to the continuous growth of American electric vehicle sales in recent years, and its proportion of young car sales in 2023 has reached 9%.
Since 2003, the annual power consumption of the railway system has been the largest ultimate electricity category of the transportation department, and has maintained relatively stable in the past two decades, with an average annual 7,000 Gavaco. However, during this period, the expansion of the U.S. municipal railway system or electrification passenger railway was limited, which limited the growth of the electricity consumption of railway systems to a certain extent.
It is worth noting that the annual power consumption of electric vehicles in 2023 increased to 7,596 Gavaco, which was almost five times that of 2018. In the electric vehicle market, the early electricity share of pure electric vehicles and plug -in hybrid vehicles is roughly the same. However, with the increase of the choice of pure electric vehicle models and the decline in prices, its proportion of the total power consumption of electric vehicles has gradually increased, and it has reached 72%in 2023.
In addition, California is the most concentrated area of electric vehicles in the United States, and its electric vehicle consumption is the top nationwide. Specifically, in 2023, electric vehicles in California accounted for 33.9%of the total US total, followed by Florida, accounting for 6.0%. These data fully show that the vigorous development of the US electric vehicle market is deeply changing its energy consumption structure and promoting the transformation of the field of transportation to more clean and efficient energy use.