The everyday Tesla driver: Here is his profile

• Tesla drivers are majority male and their commonest jobs are engineer and supervisor of operations, a brand new research discovered.
• Most Tesla drivers have been 34-years-old or youthful and lived in areas with median family incomes that averaged $85,000.
• An insurance coverage firm surveyed 62,000 drivers, together with 228 with Teslas, to match.

Tesla drivers look completely different than the common automotive proprietor, in response to a brand new evaluation.

Jerry, a Palo Alto-based Insurance coverage firm, examined security and demographics information from 10 million journeys taken by 62,000 drivers in 52 completely different makes of automobiles. Some 30,000 of these journeys have been taken by 228 Tesla drivers, permitting them to find out how the electric-car drivers examine to others on the street.

The evaluation discovered that 83% of the Tesla drivers included within the information set have been male. For comparability, males represented solely 49% of drivers throughout all different manufacturers within the research. About 49% of licensed US drivers are male, per the Federal Freeway Administration (FHWA).

Tesla drivers seem to have increased incomes, the research discovered. The typical median family earnings throughout the zip codes Tesla drivers known as residence was $85,000, whereas non-Tesla drivers had median family incomes of $62,000, Jerry reported. And a couple of third of the Tesla drivers lived in zip codes with median family incomes of $100,000 or extra. In the meantime, the median family earnings within the US is $70,784, in response to 2021 information from the US Census Bureau.

Tesla drivers are additionally extra more likely to personal a house than the common driver. The research discovered that about 36% of Tesla drivers within the information set have been householders as in comparison with 17% of non-Tesla drivers. The nationwide fee of homeownership within the US is over 64% — although the quantity drops under 33% for People underneath the age of 34, per the US Census Bureau.

Tesla drivers seem to symbolize a youthful portion of the inhabitants. 70% of the Tesla drivers within the information set have been 34-years-old or youthful — that means the bulk have been Millennials or Technology-Z. Solely about 32% of licensed drivers within the US are 34 or youthful, in response to the FHWA.

Tesla drivers are additionally extra educated on common, per Jerry’s evaluation. About one-third of Tesla drivers studied had a grasp’s diploma or Ph.D. as in comparison with solely 13% of the US inhabitants, in response to the Census. The commonest occupations have been additionally engineer, supervisor of operations, and software program engineer, Jerry reported.

Analyzing driving-safety points, Jerry discovered that the majority Tesla drivers scored decrease than others on acceleration security, however had decrease common and high speeds. The electrical-car drivers have been additionally much less doubtless to make use of their telephone whereas driving — a statistic the insurance coverage company attributed to Tesla’s giant infotainment system, which might exchange the necessity for a telephone on drives.

Jerry’s evaluation principally traces up with earlier research of Tesla drivers, and is the latest up to now. Hedges & Firm, a digital advertising and marketing agency for automakers, present in 2018 that Tesla drivers usually tend to personal properties and have increased incomes total — very like different luxurious automotive house owners. Although, the 2018 research discovered the everyday Tesla driver is of their 50s and 87% of its house owners are white. It stated it analyzed a car proprietor database of over 175 million automotive house owners.