Electric vehicles registered in the USNorthern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population
American EV registrations and the Northern Rocky Mountain gray-wolf population, both climbing through the 2010s and into the 2020s. Two completely unrelated recoveries: one in transportation, one in conservation, sharing a calendar of slow but steady gains.
US registered EVs grew from about 16,000 in 2011 to over 3.5 million by 2022 as Tesla volume launches and the second wave of EV models expanded the category. Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population grew from about 1,650 in 2011 to over 2,800 by 2022 as Endangered Species Act protections and continued state-level management supported the species. Two completely unrelated growth stories sharing a window because the same eleven years rewarded both an EV transition and a wolf-population recovery.
Two recoveries shared a decade. The car and the wolf, both more numerous than they used to be.
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