With regular gas currently hovering around $5.70 a gallon in the Seattle area, filling up the tank can be a source of dread. Owners of electric vehicles, I imagine, must be smiling to themselves as they drive past the gas station. In the Seattle area, that’s a fast-growing number of people, according to the latest market-research data from Nielsen. Between 2022 and 2025, the number of local households that owned or leased an EV more than doubled, growing from around 64,000 to 165,000. Expressed as a percentage of the nearly 2.2 million households in our market, that’s an increase from 2.9% in 2022 to 7.5% in 2025. Seattle is well ahead of the national average in EV adoption. Across 83 U.S. market areas, the share of households that own or lease an EV grew from 1.3% to 4% during this period. In 2025, Seattle ranked seventh for overall EV adoption among the 83 markets. The San Francisco area took the top spot at 11.2%, the only market in which more than 1 in 10 households owned an EV. Honolulu was No.…