The long years of waiting for electric vehicles (EVs) to enter the mainstream are over. Largely thanks to sharply falling prices, EV sales in the U.S. have been growing at a compound annual growth rate of 32 percent for the past four years, and monthly 2017 sales data suggests that the sales rate continues to accelerate. EVs are on track to beat gasoline burners on price, without incentives or subsidies, by 2025. Bloomberg New Energy Finance anticipates there will be 39 models of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and 44 models of battery electric vehicles available in North America by 2020. Today, several of the best-selling EV models can already go more than 200 miles on a single charge, and the ranges are only getting longer. If recent trends persist, 2.9 million EVs could be on the road in the U.S. within five years, bringing over 11,000 gigawatt-hours of load […]