A new poll suggests that the majority of Americans don’t want an EV or hybrid in their garage despite the recent push for electrification, and only about three out of ten are likely to buy an electric or hybrid vehicle as their next automotive purchase.
The poll, conducted collaboratively by Yahoo! Finance and Ipsos, ran for three days from September 29th through October 1st and drew its conclusions from the responses of 1,025 U.S. citizens.
Out of those who responded, 57 percent asserted their next vehicle purchase would not be an EV, a classification that includes plug-in hybrids for purposes of the poll. A further 11 percent stated that they were undecided at this point, while 31 percent answered affirmatively that their next purchase might be an EV. Only 7 percent said they were “extremely likely” to buy an EV, with the balance only “somewhat likely” to do so.
The poll also studied the demographics of potential EV buyers and the reasons why those consumers who had no interest in EVs preferred ICE transportation. Both income and age affected EV interest, with buyers earning under $50,000 being 60 percent against acquiring an electric vehicle and those 65 years old or older 70 percent against an EV purchase.
Politics also factored in, with 76 percent of Republicans unlikely to buy an EV. Even among Democrats, though, only 41 percent described themselves as “likely” to buy an EV, with the majority still preferring ICE. Roughly 61 percent of Americans oppose banning new ICE vehicle sales, with 16 percent undecided and just 7 percent strongly in favor of a ban.
Cox Automotive industry insights director Stephanie Valdez-Streaty opined that while “there’s a lot of different factors” preventing more interest in EVs, “it’s price, it’s infrastructure; I think that range anxiety is really infrastructure anxiety.”
The biggest group of those opposed to buying an electric vehicle, 77 percent, cited “lack of charging stations on the road or charging at home” as one of their chief objections to the new automotive technology. Other major motivators were insufficient range (73 percent) and the price and cost of ownership (70 percent). About 60 percent worried about electric transport’s environmental impact.
GM wasn’t the first choice among EV automakers among those respondents planning to buy an electric vehicle or hybrid as their next car. Toyota was the leading brand for prospective EV purchases at 30 percent and Tesla in second place at 23 percent. GM was in fourth place at 15 percent, essentially tied with fifth-place Ford at 14 percent.
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Wow, most people don’t want technology that isn’t ready shoved down their throat ? who knew….
Nothing is ever ready and if one waited always for it to be perfect they might be dead first. But they can all wait while some choose to enjoy the benefits of it even though some can’t see it yet but complain about the costs of owning their none EV cars and then blame politicians on what corps are doing to make it costly. THINK GAS! I would rather control my own entergy sourcing and use. And if I have to pay a little up front to obtain it knowing it will pay back in spades over some years AND IT HAS on my first go of it I will gladly be a taker and invest in such way.
Why is it so hard for manufacturers to realize this ? Nobody wants a soulless pos that makes less range than an ice vehicle.
Who is surprised? Customers have been saying this all along, but Mary has been listening to Joe Bribem instead.
You missed this LOL. Maybe your not on the list though. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/11/gm-has-nearly-200000-hand-raisers-for-chevy-equinox-ev/
So let me make sure I’m reading this correctly. They did a national survey of “1,025” people and drew these conclusions? That is hardly a survey and I think the numbers would be much different if they actually did a survey of 100,025 buyers.
With that said, I just received my first registration renewal (in California) and I can tell you that it may just make my Bolt my last EV for the near future. The reg fees out here are nuts anyhow, but $530.00 for a Bolt with an MSRP of $28,315.00? Seriously?
Look, I’ve said this over and again that I don’t feel that EV’s are for everyone. As much as I like mine, I certainly find it challenging in certain areas and I am (was) willing to overlook those things for the much lower overall cost to operate. Yes, by not buying gas, I’m also not paying the road taxes and that was part of what helped offset the not so fun parts of EV ownership. Since this dumb**s state has decided to remove that from the equation, I no longer see a reason to deal with the other things I don’t like about EV. No matter what you do, these states and the feds will tax the sh*t out of a driver no matter what.
I’m seriously thinking about taking my Bolt to CarMax, getting a good price for it and then buying (cash only) an older Buick car.
Well California… Eons ago when I lived there I think I paid around 600 to register a 25 thousand dollar car. So 530 seems cheap. Why would an EV escape registration fees? You are already escaping one of the state gas tax, one of the highest in the nation I might add. You also received a 7500 incentive from the feds and something from the state I think. And I think california still does the thing where you get to drive in the HOV lane for free for a couple of years all by yourself. And remember if you sell your car to carmax and then buy a private party for cash, when you go to register it, they are going to want sales tax. It is no wonder Cali is having a net outflow migration. My TX registration is around 75/yr. They do “get you” if you don’t trade with a dealer. If you do a trade, the sales tax is on the “net” difference. If you don’t do a trade, then you will pay sales tax on the full sales price. And dealers know this and use it to their advantage of course. TX also has a relatively low gas tax and so far doesn’t do the lunacy of giving EV drivers HOV perks.
mkAtx: I’m not at all sure how you would have paid $600 on a 25 grand vehicle if a long time ago. Something doesn’t sound right to me. Anyhow, I don’t live in California because I want to but because I won’t move away from my two younger children. But rest assured, the moment I can escape and go back to reality, I will.
You bring up a few things that are true benefits to buying an EV. Yes and those are things that I used to make my decision to buy the EV to start with. If it weren’t for those tings, I would have stuck with my 2021 Malibu. I think even the most ardent EV defender must admit that there are things about having an EV that kind of sucks and getting people to buy them has and will continue (for a while at least) to require incentives for early adapters. Do I feel that I shouldn’t have to pay a registration fee? No, and I didn’t say that. What I said is that paying $530 a year for this car is way too much when I was paying about $375 a year for the Malibu (which was a higher priced MSRP by the way). In other words, I’ve given up some conveniences by getting rid of my ICE and going EV, so having the state now place an additional “tax” on my reg sucks. So maybe those driving ICE should now be required to pay an additional carbon tax?
Bottom line IMO is this. If the states want to suppress EV sales, then they just figured out how to do it. Looks to me like the big oil and politicians are behind it all.
You live in California. Most of the rest of us actually don’t want an EV.
Make a BEV sexy and cool and it will sell. Sadly they are not selling as they all are boring looking sedans or station wagons.
The poll is misleading. No one buys a gas car and worries if the tank is big enough, so range is not an issue. And there are tens of millions of electrical outlets everywhere for charging, so infrastructure is not an issue, either. Finally everyone who has a photovoltaic system with batteries can charge their EV for free overnight. You can NEVER do that with a gas car!
You must be in the Crazyfornia bubble. Very few people in the real world have a solar panel battery setup at home. That only pays in the SW and where people pay super high power bills. In the heartland power is cheap and the sun doesn’t always shine.
Stan: I’m not necessarily defending GM Owner, but what you said certainly doesn’t match up with what my real life experience is/was. I grew up in the mid-west and moved to California in late 2010. This was not fully my choice, but that’s another story. Anyhow, what I can say is that my electric bills back in the mid-west were often $200 or more in the colder winter. Where I’m at now in a similar sized house, my average bill is $75.00 a month.
As for the sun shining? It doesn’t always shine out here either. I’m certainly not an expert on solar, but I do know that you don’t always need direct sunlight for them to capture energy.
As for Jake saying $75 grand, I can’t refute that but I will challenge it. Unless you are talking about a huge home with a pool and several outbuildings, I’m doubtful that many spend anywhere near 75 grand on solar. I’ve spoken with several people who have recently gotten solar and it seems that the average home would spend +/- $15,000 for the solar and maybe another +/- $10,000 for battery storage. So $25,000 is still a lot and for me it would never pay off. But my point is that it’s a long way from 75 grand.
Here are the current facts. The Ave. cost of electricity in CA is $0.31/ kWh, the national average is $0.18, and in my free red Midwest state I pay $0.13/ kWh.
Charge your car for free you say. That after spending 75k on solar and batteries? Hopefully you don’t have a job in finance.
Yeah, those setups are a scam in most places
You say that the infrastructure is not a issue. Lets look at the millions of people that live in apartment complexes. Also there also millions of people living in homes that don’t have driveways and have street parking. Where do they charge their EV’s. The infrastructure is not there for charging at home or on the road. But the biggest issue is cost of EV vehicles.
There are alot of factors you aren’t considering in your post. For instance how long will it take to charge your BEV from one of those tens of millions of electrical outlets and how much of charge will you receive? Keep in mind not all houses are equal and many have older wiring and fuse boxes that cannot handle the optional at home charging systems offered by the manufacturer, etc., the cost of rewiring a home for a BEV can be very cost prohibitive especially if you choose to add a photovoltaic system into the mix.
The reason I know this is I considered buying a Bolt, but I asked around about these details (My house is roughly 50 to 60 years old) and even with the knowledge that I will make all of that back, that is too much money up front for me.
Especially when I can drive my ICE a block down the street to the gas station and back and top it off in five minutes with the only cost being the cost of gas (currently takes $37 to 40 to fill up my 21 Trailblazer RS).
It makes em feel good to have a full tank of gas sorta like that gun rack on the back window! Moving on.
Fact remains that 15 gal. of gas contains more energy that 6 full recharges of the best TESLA on the market.
LOL! This is so similar to Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney movies and TV shows wondering why their brands are dying and less and less people watch their crap. These decision makers are so out of touch and got fed HORRIBLE data by the likes of Twitter and Parrot Analytics.
Car sales can’t live on hype alone. I’m probably one of the most open to EVs among my friends and family. I’ve done my due diligence researching this inside and out, and I just can’t justify it. The price is too high and the range too low. When the technology is ready I’ll be there, but not until then.
I have never seen a Toyota EV in the road. Who did they poll that is looking at their one EV option over EV giant Tesla or more than Chevy and Ford combined?
This is just glaring evidence of public perception of GM and Toyota. Toyota has been so successful with the Prius, and have long been perceived to be a producer of high tech and efficient vehicles (whether deserved or not), that it isn’t surprising that people think Toyota is the leader in EV tecnology, even though they briefly pushed back against it and are still not embracing it as stongly as other companies. GM, on the other hand, along with Ford and Chrysler, have long been associated with trucks and the associated lower fuel economy, along with being slower to adapt new technology, again whether the perception is deserved or not. It isn’t surprising that, despite GM’s push for EV’s, that they are fighting a long held public perception of themselves and their competition. I guess it also says a lot about the education on the subject of those who they polled.
They should make ICE + EV vehicles until things are more ready for EV.
I think Toyota wants to do that.
And if Trump or DeSantis wins the Pres, they will get gas prices down, further delaying EVs.
Forcing buyers from a market that exists to a market that doesn’t is a big challenge.
I think they tried to help the EV number as much as they could by including plug-in hybrids, because I would buy one of those but I wouldn’t buy an EV.
Ask owners in Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan and Canada how they like their EVs in December, Jan, Feb and March.
Go ahead, ask them. We’ll wait ……
As a Bolt owner living in Wisconsin I love the Bolt. During the coldest days last winter along with record snowfall I would still get at least 200 miles on a full charge. That was done with the thermostat set at a comfortable 72 degrees as I hate driving with a bulky winter coat on.
I charge it whenever they estimated range falls below 125 miles in the winter, I normally wait for it to fall below 90 miles in the summer as I have an 80 mile round trip commute.
If GM ever pulls it head out of it **s and actually starts producing all the EV’s they’ve been crowing about for the last two years I plan to purchase a 2nd EV.
Based on the current battery and charging technology, there is a 0% chance I will buy an EV. With the alleged longer range and shorter charging times of solid state batteries (if they ever become a reality), that would likely change, but as of now it’s a hard pass. I’d be very interested in some sort of plug-in hybrid if GM would make some. My wife was very interested in the Volt, but they pulled the plug (no pun intended) before she was ready to buy. Now she’s shown some interest in the new Prius. I think GM made a huge mistake assuming customers aren’t interested in hybrids. A full on EV is a huge leap into a different lifestyle, and we take too many road trips to deal with the inconveniences that an EV currently presents.
I can understand no on wanting a EV … a EV is a lifestyle change, and that change revolves around going only places where EV charging stations are located … and you’re pre-signed, an pre-approved to use them. Then there’s the 50/50 shot the charging station’s “plug-in” won’t work with your car, but if you divest yourself of several hundred dollars for a EV adapter kit you just might be able to recharge.
Now … hybrids, that’s a whole other matter. I’ve driven a hybrid for close to 11 years, still gets around 55 around town and 45 on the expressways. I’ve had just one “bill” I hadn’t planned for when something called a electronic throttle body went bad, but I’ll still take a hybrid when I can. I’m hoping either the Traxx or the Trail Blazer will be offered in a Hybrid soon.
For me the range is really not a concern. I have a short commute and we have other vehicles in the household that would be our family travel vehicle anyway.
My lack of desire to buy an EV is from the unknown long term maintenance costs and general life span. I’ve never been an early adopter of tech devices and to me this is the same thing. I’d prefer to see this play out longer before jumping on board.
Add most of Mid-Michigan and some of southern Michigan to that list too.
Where is it written that people have to make their next vehicle an EV? It’s not 2035. By then, many of the horse and buggy people on here will have bit the dust and new technologies will have emerged. I rode in my friend’s EV and was amazed by all the power. The range was a little under 300 miles. No, you won’t get the 408 mile range the 2023 Chevy Silverado with a 24- gallon tank gets. Nor will you pay the $96 it cost to refill it. I wouldn’t recommend at this point anybody buy an EV for cross country travel. But, for around town or suburban/rural living, absolutely. This is new technology. In five years maybe new heating systems will be equipped. Maybe hydrogen. The batteries will be better, likely. Charging points will be all over the country. You may be able to recharge your own with your mini windmill or solar collector. A lot of people just don’t think technology has advanced enough yet. That’s fine. I agree. I still plan to look at them in 2024. One more thing, some mentally deranged guy said the US plans to make all army tanks EV. Not so. Nobody suggested that. Enough false information. Hyundai is building a new EV and battery plant in Georgia. They plan to hire 7000 people. The Ioniq is a really nice vehicle. In the 1960’s people said the Beatles were just going to be a once and out thing. The same was said about rock and roll in the 1950’s. The same for television. This country was built on innovation. Why are people so afraid of change?
I’d estimate 95% of the motoring public won’t EVER buy a EV. Why? Buying an becoming a EV owner is a full fledged “lifestyle” change. Gone for good (or as long as they own it) are the “spur of the moment” decision to go to those outta the way places as “no charge station” knocks it out or they forgot to plug in an the batt’s down to 10%. The EV owners new world consist of going where a charging station “might be”. And if you live in the “north”, and your battery gets down to about 15%, it’s a craps shoot on whether the battery will take a charge from either a home charge or charger station as you have to have so much heat in the battery for it to take a charge. Then there’s the setting yourself up with some charge stations to accept your debit/credit card. One EV maker faked our EV customers with a 110 volt charger for those “outta” the way places charging needs … Tesla for example owners after charging all night got jut enough to go 18 miles, some not enough to get to a charging station. I’m a AAA member and they are just now addressing car support w/generator sets to get EV people to the closest charger station. I drive a hybrid, and should I run out of gas, the complementary 2 gallons would get me over 100 miles down the road. In closing, believe it or not I’m not Anti-EV … the EV will make a great city car or a second car (primary gas or gas/hybrid) … but to be the single vehicle not until the 500 to 600 mile range will it be a viable thing to own. Now, with that said … any of the EV builders who might see this … IMPRESS ME with a 130hp EV that will do the job.get to work, shopping, etc the usual tasks, not a 400hp beast, and get that 500 to 600 mile range … you EV builders are just HP crazy, if a Trax with the 1.2 ecoboot turbo engine can make 0 to 60 in under 10 seconds w/137hp and the pubic buying them like crazy … then a 130 hp to 140 hp EV with the same performance curve PLUS a 500 to 600 mile range will be a WINNER. People need affordable options that sell for $23K to $27K … not $50K to $60K road warriors with 400hp ele/motors. Yes I’m a fan of Robert McNamara, who is he …. he’s the one that Green Lighted Lee Iacocca’s “Mustang” car in 1962 for a 1964 production model providing the “sporty” model be built on the economy car “Falcon” chassis in order to cut cost and with the smaller 130 cubic inch straight six to get about 30 mpg … which it did with the 3-speed manual and about 26 with the 3 speed auto … great numbers in 1962 … and the rest is Mustang history. In closing … The EV manufacturing went into this right “ass-back-wards” … economy cars should have been produced first, getting that 500 to 600 mile range w/a $25K price tag, people in my age group (mid 60’s) would have readily came onboard a thing like that … but force feed a Tesla, Bolt, Mustang Mach E with it’s way too expensive pricing … they “screwed-the-pooch” and lost the market. If I could have called the shots at Ford A EV based on the older Focus platform form the ’11 to ’13 model year and a EV pickup the size of a 1962 Ford Ranchero would have been made 1st, easy to drive, an cheaper to own … as mentioned earlier … all the EV builders did this “ass-back-wards”, dooming themselves to failure. You have to build a market like Henry Ford did … then progress to more expensive models for those who want better, like it used to be … the Ford scale …. Ford … Mercury … Lincoln, as your customer base grew in age an hopefully wealth, they could buy nicer models. The Ford/McNamara model. And GM has made some Biblical diasters … the Chevy Volt, great car. A friend from Florida had one, got close to 80 mpg ! Traded for a Model Y Tesla … regretted it ever since. They are a 2 car family, other car Chevy Trail Blazer. Now that the strikes over, I want one of those Chevy Trax myself … great little car … and in the magic $22K to $25K price range … just like the Kia Soul … did you know 6 out of 10 Souls are bought by people in the 60+ age group ? I do writing for several auto groups like Automotive News, Hot Rod, the SEMA industry, etc … and I can tell yeah … the people aren’t buying $50,000+ dollar vehicles. Mentioned earlier, I want a Trax (will keep my hybrid) and the wife wants one of those Chevy Montana 4-door pickups if an when available … again, if GM is reading this, don’t sit on your hands, if you do someone like Hyundai or Mahindra will do the above and you’ll be scratching your head wondering what happened.
Excellent post – my thoughts exactly. No one is forcing anyone to buy an EV anywhere in the US!
Some things seldom mentioned here:
How much does it cost to replace these batteries as their efficiency decreases over time?
What do you do with the old batteries? (They are still trying to deal with recycling windmill blades)
As the new technology evolves, who is going to want your 5 to 10 year old out of date EV?
These are things I think about aside from the obvious upfront and daily operating costs.
Please cite your source of information. The ICE is a way more inefficient use of power generation than an electric motor. Burning gasoline in an ICE creates heat. Electricity in an electric motor creates power generation and movement. Take the locomotive. They run off a diesel engine that powers the generation of electricity to power the much, much more powerful electric engine that pulls 100 train cars. Why do you think they do that? Teslas go 262-405 miles on a single recharge. How far will 15 gallons of gasoline take you?
15 gallons will take me 480 miles in my 2018 Equinox. Just saying, you asked. And, BTW, It takes me less than 5 minutes to fill up.
I drive a hybrid … your car holds 15 gallons, my ’13 C-Max holds 11.5 gallons, if I drive (don’t break any speed zones) like I should I get close to 600 miles to a tank or pretty close to 50 mpg average. The big thing EV owners learn an quickly is their lifestyle changes dramatically. You an I can go anywhere we want to go, those outta the way places for instance … that don’t have charging stations. EV owners can only go where a charging station “might” exist, and their debit/credit card is pre-registered, and only can charge if the adapter on the charger fits their car … or buy a $150 adapter pack an keep in the car using up precious cargo space. And the biggest reason not to own one … in the winter if the battery is about down to 15% AND the temps are in the teens (like up north) their battery car won’t take a charge.
A couple of years ago I needed a new push mower. On a whim, I bought an electric 3 way (discharge, mulch, or bag) on closeout for dirt cheap. I found that I like the heck out of it. As I did not get a spare battery, I have had to adjust my work around the recharging of the battery. No big deal. My son can rebuild the battery when the time comes.
The point is, as has been stated by others, EVs are not for everyone. The infrastructure for charging away from home is not there yet, and may never come to pass to be truly on par with 5 minutes at the gas station. For my needs ( a few local trips per week) an EV with a level 1 charger in my garage would be sufficient. I would still need an ICE vehicle for trips. I would prefer to avoid the complexity of a hybrid. Also, the economics of EV vs. ICE need to work (refundable tax credit does not work for me).
EV adoption will be slow, and to what level is debatable. Mankind will come up with other ways to kill ourselves long before EVs become mainstream. Hang on to those ICE vehicles, they will be worth more in the future!
funny how the right wingers focus on fill up time and trip over each other to prove their point. ok then, be slaves to the big oil and enjoy. enjoy the dependence and ignorance. driving my ev costs 90% less in energy alone.
Really ? Can you honestly say your monthly bills for charging your EV is less than $35 a month and you drive from 350 to 400 miles on that $35 ? I drive a standard hybrid, a ’13 C-Max and monthly my fill-up cost is $40 or less … and I DON’T have to alter my driving or lifestyle to play “hunt” the charging station. One of my neighbors has a EV with a home charging station, she is seeing anywhere from $85 to $100 a month INCREASE in her electric bill or about $400 a month. Her husband drives a ’15 model C-Max just like mine, and he too spends about $40 a month in gas, we both drive about 90 miles a week for work, our mpgs hover around the 55 mpg mark. So if anyone is a slave, it’s you dude, and your lifestyle that includes not being to go to outta the way places that don’t have charging stations, and like her an others when the temps drop into the teens at night her car (’16 Nissan Leaf) won’t take a charge as there’s not enough heat in the battery for the 220vt charger to work. In closing … if the EV manufacturers want to impress me … make a 130hp to 140hp EV with a battery that delivers a 500 to 600 mile range … not a 400+hp ego car that only sees at best a 250 to 300 mile range. Thor314 is the “slave” to how far his range is, and not being able to do a “spur of the moment” trip because there might not be a charging station … or as I’ve seen done … oh crap, forgot to plug the dern car in.
absolutely. it costs me 12-15$ a month to drive ev at 4.8c/kwh at my local utility off peak charging to drive 1000+mi a month. i also don’t alter my driving – it’s fully charged every morning. it’s actually you who has to find gas stations and constantly check your phone where you can buy cheaper gas and check your fuel gauge and so on. i’d share my bill with you if i could, because it is indeed unbelievable.
our second car is gas so we use that one for once a year trip but we save money in ev mode for 364 days a year. problem solved.
nissan leaf is a garbage vehicle, it’s a bad one to compare to. it has no heat pump and it’s an air cooled battery. plus it’s built very poorly.
it’s also not about your selfish self – think about geopolitics and what your buying fuel means – your gas funds wars and te3rrorizm and wrecks the planet. stop being so selfish. not everything is about the comfort of your a$$
US spends $1t/year on fuel that it doesn’t have to. think how much richer than country would be.
Batteries do not make electricity—-they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by Coal, Uranium Fuel rods, Methane-powered plants, or Diesel- fueled generators. So to say an EV is a “zero-emission vehicle” is NOT AT ALL VALID.
By the way Mr. short-memory thor314, the U.S. was a net exporter of fuel prior to Biden taking office, so your false argument about “geopolitics” is all wet and so is your a$$.
No one has to “constantly check your phone to discover where you can buy cheaper gas, you simply pull in to a convenient gas station and you’re gone in about five minutes. Ewe EV sheep aren’t constantly watching your “charge” gauge or whatever you call it ? Don’t make us laugh !
ps $400 for electricity a month doesn’t make any sense. i don’t forget to plug as i get a notice on my phone and charger is next to door. and even if i did, there would be enough juice anyway.
Why does everybody always keep harping about range. Yes range and waiting time are just a tip of the iceberg for the joys of owning an EV. You also have a lack of chargers due to failures, poor infrastructure, vandalism and variances of fast chargers versus normal ones. Then you have styling ranging from homley to bland and interiors that are so austere they make you want to fall asleep. Then you have much higher weight and registration costs, higher insurance costs and what you will end up with when you pay all that extra money is a massive lawn ornament when the batteries fail and the cost to replace them or to find someone who can work on these things will greatly out weight their book values. I also know for a fact that politicians are so heavily pushing these things for reasons of agendas and gain and have little or no proof of the sky is falling claims they have been making the past 50 years!
I agree with the earlier comment. If you don’t like EVs as part of the overall GM Corporate business plan, then don’t buy one. Quit wasting everybody’s time on here.
Call me when there are plenty of chargers from coast to coast and I can “fill up” an electric car in under 5 minutes. Why would I give up what I can already do with an ICE?
You are so stupid and an idiot! Every electrical outlet is a “charger”! And you are forgetting that an EV runs without gasoline but no gasoline engine can run without electricity! As proof, pull out your battery and alternator, then try to run or even start your obsolete gasoline engine. You cannot drive or even live without electricity!!
Rhian, you are writing only about buyers in the United States, not of all Americans. Americans covers everyone from Alaska to Chile. And most of the South Americans are accepting EVs. I am ashamed that many fellow U.S. buyers are rejecting EVs just because tbey need charging. But yet they do charge theit mobile devices and appliances. So why such apathy against a larger mobile appliance? As to clear any doubts, I am a New Yorker, and my ancestors and I are more American than any of the naysayers here.
Every outlet is a trickle charger requiring an overnight charge. You don’t need to plug in an ICE to generate electricity. Try to keep up.
BTW, I’ve been driving a hybrid since 2006 and acknowledge I am doing my best to make the most efficient use of fossil fuels, instead of a NIMBYist EV industry that doesn’t seem to understand that some electricity is still generated by coal and gas.
What a stupid poll! 5 years ago it was closer to 50%. Guess what happens when now we poll people! We get a lower result. Why? Simple, every year people are BUYING EVs, so they are no longer included in the poll!
Add to that they polled a micro-sized population of 1,025 Americans! Wow, what a sampling! Probably all from one local area as well – maybe even got off the same bus tour group. Great job with this poll!