Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper
Despite the bad press, half of America is still considering an EV or hybrid car — they just want them to be cheaper
A new study shows EV demand is still out there, it just looks different than it did a few years ago.
Claims that electric vehicles don't have enough demand may be overblown.
A new study from GBK Collective, published Thursday, found that half of the more than 2,000 US car consumers they interviewed were considering either an electric or a hybrid car for their next vehicle purchase.
This far outweighs the current ownership trends found in the study. Only 14% of those surveyed already own a plug-in or hybrid vehicle of some kind. It's another piece of evidence of a huge opportunity for EV manufacturers to home in on the needs of these green car-curious consumers.
"These are not the same kind of customers who created the initial EV market," GBK President Jeremy Korst told Business Insider in an interview.
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"These are later adopters, and because of that, they're not as driven by innovation or even design," Korst said. "They have more functional needs, and they're much more pragmatic and thinking about the total cost of ownership both in price and in effort, like, 'how do I charge so what's that going to take? How much time is it going to take me?'"
I have seriously considered an EV and will probably get one in the next few years but my biggest problem with them is that all of them have huge fucking tablet screens. I want a EV that has physical buttons and if you are going to use digital screens, I want it in the same layout as the traditional style. IF I have to have a tablet screen, I want it to be minimal.
I don't want to have to use a menu to turn on the fucking windshield wipers!
47Honestly, I would kill for an EV. I'm ready to setup the charging station already since I have a 240v 50a run in my garage. I even do electrical work and could install it myself.
As the article notes though, it's way too expensive for me to consider at the moment. I drive maybe 100 miles a week but it's usually a lot less so I would be a perfect candidate.
However, a $7k or less older ICE vehicle does what I need. I can buy a fuck-ton of gas for $43k.... Including the added maintenance. I'm also hesitant to buy an older EV due to battery deterioration and not knowing if I will have to pay a ton to replace the batteries.
40The tech is still a bit immature. The price is still way too high. The grid is still so dirty (in my area) that only the small EVs offer much of carbon output reduction over the compact ICE that I drive now. The user experience of a bunch of touchscreens is horseshit and I will not buy anything without buttons.
All those things change in time and I will almost certainly buy an EV when they do. Mostly I am annoyed that the US EV fleet is being reduced to fuck off huge 7k lb monster trucks.
18It's hard to spend 50k on a new car when my current car is functional.
14Dealerships also have a party to play in tanking overall sales of EVs with the direction Tesla took and for is trying to take, cutting out dealerships all together.
8Yep, was just shopping this week and it’s damn near impossible to get a new EV with range worth looking at and under 30k
I just need 200 please, it gets cold here and losing 30% of 200 makes this tenuous. Think I’ll have to either get another hybrid for my wife as they return to work soon or wait for better tech
7It's the same here in Brazil, people are interested but the cheapest EV is still very expensive and is just an electric version of a shitty car called Kwid that is now WAY overpriced thanks to it being an EV.
5I was all set to buy a Kia Niro phev and then a month before they were available the government charged the tax credit and it no longer made economic sense. Ended up getting a new ICE Forte instead
2If anything, all the right-wing idiots that say "they all catch fire" or "EV's are for gays" make me want one even more. They're basically doing all the marketing for the EV companies - all someone needs to do is release a solid, affordable EV.
-2I go on road trips for vacation. like 700+ miles in the day road trips. I wouldn't consider an ev right now because I have range anxiety and charging stations aren't as ubiquitous in the rural areas. if you stuck charge stations at every rest area on the interstates (the ones some states haven't closed yet), I dunno maybe but there are still big stretches of land out there that aren't close to an interstate let alone a rest area.
give me an ev that can go 700 miles in 12 hours and I might consider it.
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