I’m working on a project and need a clean list of all EVs (make, model, year). Most of the datasets I find are either outdated or incomplete. Does anyone know a reliable source for an updated EV database?
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This sort of requirement is a little vague. What “updated EV database” means and what you define it as could lead to a few questions such as:
- Why only EVs? Why not just all cars/vehicles and you filter out only EVs (this would have to be denoted, but usually is since there’s multiple options, including plugin-hybrids, and traditional gas)
- Globally, or only a specific region? There’s multiple car brands and overlap globally, and vehicles themselves are not sold globally, or could even be renamed/different but actually the same.
- how “updated” is “updated”. Like if a new car starts selling next week, do you want to know? Or is just the slated release lineup of vehicles in a given year good enough? What about the past? How far back do you care? Do you care about historical electric vehicles from the 1800s?
Depending on how you answer each of these questions and their aspects you could go over it a few ways. The main concern is what brands you care about IMO. If you just care about all of them then you’ll have a problem, as I can think of a multitude of brands (present and defunked) that sell/sold electric vehicles. So having a list of brands, you care about, or even just a region to start would be good.
Next you’d have to find this information, but with a list of brands you could go and automate the capture, or just manually gather this information yourself.
Finally, there might be some API out there, but depending on how “live” or accurate or expansive you want your data to be you can figure out if the manual method works, or if you really do need to work with an API.