State of EVs in Texas
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Texas has the third most registered electric vehicles in the country, behind California and Florida, per U.S. Department of Energy data.
Why it matters: The state aspires to make EV ownership more accessible by adding charging stations every 50 miles in high-traffic alternative fuel corridors — think major highways running north and south and east and west.
State of play: About 200,000 electric vehicles are registered in Texas, making up less than 1% of all registered vehicles in the state — lower than many other states.
- D-FW accounts for about 37% of the total number of registered EVs in the state, per a Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities analysis.
- There are about 3,731 charging locations in the state with 10,253 charging ports, per the federal government's Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. The vast majority are in urban areas.
Yes, but: It costs an average of $0.51 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to charge an electric car at a public charging station in Texas, Axios Pro: Climate Deals' Alan Neuhauser reports from data gathered by Stable Auto, an EV charger software developer.
- The national average is $0.45 per kWh.
- A typical EV with 300 miles of range usually takes about 75-100 kWh to go from empty to full.
Between the lines: A new state law that went into effect in September implements a $400 first-time registration fee for electric vehicles and a $200 registration renewal fee.