Americans are paying an average of $ 54,000 for an electric vehicle (EV), an increase of 22% a year, the figures show.

Americans, meanwhile, are paying an average of $ 44,400 for fossil fuel vehicles, which represents a 14% gain this year through May, the JD Power research found, quoted by The Wall Street Journal.

With this, vehicle manufacturers are raising prices to offset the rising cost of raw materials, the Telegraph reports.

Supply chain challenges, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, have pushed up the cost of materials such as nickel, cobalt and lithium - all of which are essential components for EV batteries.

Thus the increase in the price of electric vehicles is causing "a headache" for drivers who want to give up fossil fuel cars to avoid record gas prices.

In addition, online searches for electric vehicles have increased by 73% since January, according to data from automated shopping websites Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader, according to The WSJ.

According to the International Energy Agency, EVs represented 4.5% of car sales in the US in 2021. /

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