Ohio Alternative Energy Motor Vehicles

I have estimated the number of alternative-energy motor vehicles in Ohio. The result, in thousands, is Ethanol (E85) = 210 , Hybrids = 164, and all others = 4. The total is about 3.4 percent of the registered motor vehicles in Ohio . Percentage-wise Ohio is not very different from the U.S. as a whole.

Details of the analysis

TABLE 1:ALTERNATIVE ENERGY VEHICLES, Millions [a]

	Total	Alternative Energy	Percent Alternative
US	252	10.9	4.3
Ohio	11.1	0.37	3.4
Percent Ohio	4.4	3.2	N/A

[a] Data for 2008; Registrations from RITA/BTS are accurate; see table 2, below, for estimates of number of alternative energy vehicles.

TABLE 2: KINDS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY MOTOR VEHICLES

	E85 [b], Millions	E85 [b], Percent	Hybrid [c], Millions	Hybrid [c], Percent	Other [d], Millions	Other [d], Percent
US	7.1 [e]	65	3.7 [f]	34	0.3	2
Ohio	0.210 [e]	56	0.16 [f]	43	~ 0 [g]	1

[b] Ethanol-capable vehicles, also known as flex-fuel.

[c] Gasoline-electric hybrids only.

[d] Compressed Natural Gas, All-Electric, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Liquid Natural Gas, Liquid Petroleum Gas.

[e] Data from EIA. For E85; they report both US total and number of fleet vehicles, with fleet vehicles being 1/16 of total. For Ohio, they only report fleet vehicles and this number was multiplied by 16 to provide the entry in Table 2.

[f] EIA sales data show that all but a negligible number of hybrids are light vehicles. R.L. Polk 2008 data show that 2.6 percent of all light vehicles are hybrids and this result was used to calculate the table entries.

[g] Actual number = 4,200