Fastest-Growing (and Shrinking) Clean Energy Jobs

Special Report

December 25, 2021 1:00 pm

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1. Electric vehicles
> Clean energy jobs growth 2017-2020: 20.91%
> Clean energy jobs growth 2017-2019: 12.15% — 4th highest
> Employment 2017: 69,250 — 9th highest
> Employment 2019: 77,667 — 10th highest
> Employment 2020: 83,733 — 9th highest

Electric vehicles are the future, and the future has begun, as the job growth figures for 2017 through 2020 demonstrate. As the automobile industry moves away from gas-powered vehicles and increases the number of model choices for all-electric cars, it can be anticipated that the workforce that supports the design, manufacture, maintenance, and sales of traditional vehicles will simply shift and adapt to an all-electric U.S. fleet.

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