Electric Vehicle's in Washington

With increasing worries surrounding global warming and the CO2 and everything else that is awful and terrible in this world, the EV (electric vehicle) market has increased dramatically.

This will be an article to help start research the EV resgistration data of Washington State.

This graph shows Tesla sales in 2019 from Washington's Department of Licensing

This graph shows Tesla sales in 2023 from Washington's Department of Licensing

This graph shows Tesla sales in 2025 from Washington's Department of Licensing

We can determine from these images that Tesla had a spike in 2023. By itself, these graphs tell us nothing, however if we combine these with different information:

click here for the graph link from the Department of Energy

While the graph does not show every year up to 2025, up to 2019, the overall registered EVs is pretty similar looking to the Tesla registered EVs, possibly indicating that Tesla is an indicator for the market itself.

Both the websites I used for these graphs are from government websites. There are also a lot of independant graphing websites with important information. For example, this image from Atlas EV hub:

Link to map

This graph tells us that planned EV investments largely align with more populous areas: Seattle and Spokane, both major cities. Combined with the previous information, we can discertain that the amount of EVs regsitered in an area is somewhat indicated by how well Tesla is doing and that sales center around major cities.

What can we do with this?

There are a couple things we can do. If the goal is to increase the amount of EV's, the state could:



What Data is Available?