The electric car has been subject to a great deal of coverage in recent years, not least due to its growing popularity. Americans all over the United States have been making the jump to electric vehicles (EVs). There are various reasons for this, but the main ones are wanting to cut down on their fuel emissions and benefitting from the financial incentives offered by state and federal governments.

It’s become a well-known fact that California is the state in which the EV is most popular, with over 400,000 units sold between 2008 and 2018. But where are the true best places to live in the USA if you’re an EV owner? Which states have the lowest refueling costs, or the highest number of charging stations?

We pulled together a great deal of data in order to rank every US state according to various statistics and look into each data point in more detail below.

电动汽车销售

The most obvious place to start would be with the sales numbers. States with more EV owners will be more driven to accommodate them by improving their EV-related facilities, thereby making those states better places to live for EV owners. However, the states that rank highest for sales numbers are, somewhat unsurprisingly, the states with the largest populations. We therefore decided to study the year-on-year sales increases of each state between 2016 and 2017 to find out where EV popularity growth is the largest.

俄克拉荷马州是2016年至2017年销售增长最大的州。这是一个特别令人印象深刻的结果，因为该州没有像许多州那样向其居民购买电动汽车的激励措施或税收抵免。

在2016年至2017年之间销售增长最少的国家是威斯康星州，尽管提供了电动汽车所有者的纳税税和燃油和设备的豁免，但仍减少了11.4％。一般而言，唯一的其他销售额下降的州是乔治亚州和田纳西州等遥远南部的州，或者是阿拉斯加和北达科他州等最北方的州。

有趣的是，加利福尼亚州在这一类别中属于下半部分，尽管考虑到EV销售已经建立了良好的销售，这在某种程度上是可以理解的。

EV Popularity by State

销售主题促使我们质疑哪些是每个州最受欢迎的电动汽车。经过一些研究，我们整理了下面的地图，说明了每个州在Google上最常搜索的电动汽车。

尽管此处显示的一些汽车是雪佛兰螺栓和起亚灵魂电动汽车等价格合理的电动汽车，但大多数人比许多人可能负担得起的要贵。人们可能会期望最受欢迎的品牌是特斯拉，因为它是电动汽车的代名词，但令人惊讶的是，最多的州最受欢迎的电动汽车是宝马i8（一辆混合跑车）。巧合的是，它也是地图上最昂贵的汽车。

在第二和第3个州中最多的汽车是特斯拉型号，即Model X和ModelS。尽管这两款汽车都不像i8那样昂贵，但它们仍然相当昂贵。

当然，这些结果可能归因于以下事实：许多寻找这些汽车的人都不希望实际购买它们。他们可能只是出于好奇而寻找有关它们的信息。

Fuel Costs – Electric vs Gasoline

A significant factor in car ownership is the cost of fuel. We thought it would be interesting to compare the eGallon (the cost of driving the same distance as could be travelled on a gallon of gasoline) against traditional gasoline. The state that comes first in this regard is Louisiana, charging only 87¢ per eGallon. Interestingly Louisiana tends to suffer in other statistics – for instance, it comes 44th for year-on-year sales growth and as we’ll find out below, has one of the lowest amounts of charging stations compared with other states. So, it may be a great state for eGallon prices, but you’ll have to hope you live in driving distance to one of the public stations or you may find yourself in trouble.

路易斯安那州和前25名中的其余部分都非常紧密地捆绑在一起 - 第一和25位之间只有25美分的差异。同时，在底部25中，结果更加分布……

电动汽车燃料价格最高的州是夏威夷，每埃加隆2.91美元。夏威夷似乎比阿拉斯加高了一美元（从列表中的底部第二），似乎并没有很好的位置。也就是说，该州确实为电动汽车所有者提供折扣和例外：夏威夷电力公司为住宅和商业客户提供使用时间，该州可豁免某些停车费以及免费使用HOV车道。

如果您正在考虑更换汽车，您可能还会对汽油和电动汽车之间的成本差异感兴趣。在这方面，排名最高的州是华盛顿的差额可观的2.40美元，您可以想象，随着时间的流逝，这将大大节省资金。除了这种巨大的差异（主要是由于该州的电动燃料成本较低），华盛顿还向拥有合格的2级充电器的客户提供了一些免税和500美元的回扣，使其成为电动汽车所有者的绝佳状态。

充电站的数量

Fuel accessibility is also important, so we ranked every state by its total number of public charging stations. However, this doesn’t take population size into account – a smaller state may have less stations than a larger state because there is less need for a high number of them. We therefore took these results and divided them by the state population estimate, revealing a ratio of population versus public charging stations.

佛蒙特州在这一类别中排名最高，每个充电站有3,780人。进一步研究国家，它仅排名第42位的燃油成本，因此，如果您拥有EV，它不是一个更便宜的州之一。另一方面，佛蒙特州在2016年至2017年之间的电动汽车销售也大大增加，这可能会引起该州与EV相关的设施的进一步积极发展。因此，随着它的发展而关注它仍然是一个很好的状态。

每个充电站人数最多的州是阿拉斯加，这不足为奇，考虑到整个州只有9个公共充电站！阿拉斯加的位置变得更加弱，因为 - 如前所述 - 燃料成本的第二高。它还看到了2017年的电动汽车销量最低第四，并且在2016年至2017年之间的销售额最低。显然，阿拉斯加对电动汽车所有者来说并不是一个很好的州。

Electric Vehicle Market Share

下一个统计数据显示每个州的电动汽车市场份额（换句话说，2017年出售的所有轻型车辆的百分比是电动汽车）。与EV销售统计数据一样，这表明了EV最受欢迎的州，因此更有可能优先考虑与EV相关的开发。

可以预料，加利福尼亚州的市场份额最高，为5.02％。这是华盛顿（排名第二）的市场份额的两倍，这说明了它们与其他每个州有关的广泛性。加利福尼亚州还向电动汽车所有者提供了大量的激励措施，折扣和折扣，因此毫无疑问，这是一个为电动汽车所有者而生活的好状态。其他电动汽车市场份额高的州包括俄勒冈州（2.36％），夏威夷（2.33％）和佛蒙特州（2.13％）。

The state with the lowest EV market share is Mississippi with a total of 0.1% - hardly surprising considering that there were only 128 EVs sold there in 2017. As we’ve already seen, the state also has a poor charging station vs population ratio and an average year-on-year sales increase. Although refueling costs are fairly low, it doesn’t seem like too great a state for EV owners.

结论

So, without further ado here is our order for the best states for electric car owners. If you’d like to see our methodology for creating the scores, you can do so at the bottom of the article.

Surprisingly, California wasn’t the highest ranking - the state that came in 1st place was in fact Oklahoma! Although it had the smallest EV market share of the 50 states, it built up a high score due to low fuel costs and a high proportion of charging stations against population. Oklahoma also saw the highest increase in sales from 2016 to 2017, securing its victory. This suggests that Oklahoma has great potential as a state for EV owners to live in. Something to bear in mind might be that the state currently offers no exemptions or incentives to its residents for buying an EV, although this may change with time.

加利福尼亚在接近第二名中跟进。尽管它具有最高的电动汽车市场份额，并且是充电站与人口比率最高的人数之一，但由于平均加油成本和2016 - 17年度销售额较差，该州遭受了损失。

第三名去了华盛顿。尽管其电动汽车市场份额是平均水平，并且同比销售额的排名不高，但它以大量的充电站向人口以及燃油成本特别低的收费站弥补。实际上，如果您改用华盛顿的一辆电动汽车，您将每加仑节省2.40美元，这可能相当于每箱28至36美元的节省，具体取决于汽车的尺寸。现在让我们看一下较不成功的状态……

The results at the other end of the rankings are not particularly surprising. Alaska comes dead last, only securing a score of 5.01. While the state’s fuel costs were merely average, in every other factor it performed very poorly: it came very close to the bottom for EV market share and YOY sales increase, while its position at the bottom of the charging station rankings sealed its fate.

底部25的其余部分更加紧密地组合在一起。实际上，许多人是燃油成本最便宜的州之一，在这方面排名很高。他们倾向于跌倒的地方是市场份额（该规则的唯一实际例外是夏威夷）。

我们选择专注于一些可能使您了解我们最喜欢电动汽车的因素，但是有无数的其他因素可能会产生影响。对您最重要的情况是什么？

If you’d like to see more details on our data, as well as their sources,点击这里.

方法

在分析了上述所有数据之后，我们希望一种方法可以互相评分每个数据点，以便我们可以尝试创建一个确定的最终分数并找出哪种状态是最适合电动汽车所有者的状态。因此，我们使用MINMAX归一化标准化了每个研究元素，以获得每个因素的10分。以下是确切的公式：

结果=（x-min（x））/（max（x）-min（x））

然后，我们将结果添加在一起，以获得每个州40的最终分数。