Electric cars edge forward in 2017 but still have a long way to go
SAN FRANCISCO - Electric car sales in the U.S. are set to rise nearly 30 percent in 2017.
"This was a notably good year," said Genevieve Cullen, president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association.
But the raw number of pure-electric and plug-in hybrid cars sold won't top 200,000, which represents barely more than 1 percent of the total 17 million cars and light trucks sold.
"There's been a lot of publicity, but on the demand front, nothing has moved the needle much," said Haig Stoddard, industry analyst at WardsAuto.
In fact, a mix of hype and publicity about future products is what marked 2017 on the
