Most Americans Are Not Completely Sold on Electric Vehicles
Gallup reports Most Americans Are Not Completely Sold on Electric Vehicles
Key Points
- Current ownership of electric vehicles among partisans is 6% for Democrats, 4% for independents and 1% for Republicans.
- Democrats (22%) are far more likely than both Republicans (1%) and independents (12%) to say they are seriously considering purchasing an EV. The majority of Democrats, 54%, say they may consider it in the future.
- A substantial majority of Republicans, 71%, say they would not consider owning an electric vehicle.
- While about four in 10 U.S. adults think using EVs helps address climate change “a great deal” (12%) or “a fair amount” (27%), roughly six in 10 believe it helps “only a little” (35%) or “not at all” (26%).
- Americans who worry a great deal about global warming or climate change are most open to owning an electric vehicle now or in the future, with 79% saying they currently own one (5%), are seriously considering it (16%) or would at some point (58%). Conversely, 77% of those who are not at all concerned about climate change say they would never own an EV.
- With four in 10 U.S. adults unwilling to even consider switching from a gas to an electric vehicle, the plans of Biden, California and auto manufacturers could be challenging to achieve.
Americans’ Ownership of Electric Vehicles by Demographic Group
EVs are Coming
Many of those who say they will never do so are wrong. And the younger the age group in saying that the more likely they will be wrong.
As a practical matter, politicians are forcing the issue whether or not it makes any sense.
Eventually, the battery technology will get better, costs will drop, and chargers will be in more places.
But even so, don’t expect the shift to do much if anything for the environment.
Damn the Inflation, Full Speed Ahead
Biden’s and California’s energy policy can easily be summed up in meme phrases.
- Damn the Inflation, Full Speed Ahead
- What, Me Worry?
- The world will end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.
Meanwhile, someone please tell me how we are going to reduce dependence on China, avoid protectionism, and appease the Greens with their preposterous demands to eliminate electric vehicles by 2035.
For discussion, please see The US and G-7 Allies Are Torn Over Dependence on China
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EV passenger vehicle sales will continue to climb but its going to take a few decades before the total number of EVs exceed the total number of ICE vehicles. That is true for the US and for most of the rest of the world (with exceptions such as Norway).Meanwhile, the number of ICE vehicles being used worldwide, continues to increase every year, and this will continue for the rest of this decade at least. For example, China is selling over 23 million vehicles a year and 78% of them are still ICE. India is at just 3.8 million (almost all ICE) but growing rapidly. The world as a whole sells close to 60 million vehicles each year, most of which are still ICE. Which means continued increase in demand for gasoline and diesel for the rest of this decade.Perhaps gas and diesel prices will eventually go high enough to reduce demand for ICE and increase demand for EVs. But its going to take time.
These 2 points:
Democrats (22%) are far more likely than both Republicans (1%) and independents (12%) to say they are seriously considering purchasing an EV. The majority of Democrats, 54%, say they may consider it in the future.
A substantial majority of Republicans, 71%, say they would not consider owning an electric vehicle.
essentially just say that rural people aren’t buying or considering electric and city people are.
That should not surprise anyone.
Cannot see your point – maybe me?Filling your tank of gas before the storm is like charging your car before the storm. When storm hits, electricity goes out and no way to fill either ICE or EV.
IRS list of electric vehicles that still qualify for the
full $7,500 federal tax credit are the Cadillac Lyriq,
Chevy Bolt, Chevy Bolt EUV, some Tesla Model 3 versions, some Tesla
Model Y versions and Ford F-150.
Energy usage is very low at night. Charging cars at night will increase overall load, but it will not double it. The capacity is already there, and by charging cars at night you will be able to basically keep similar capacity to what is there now, even if you triple electric car use.
If everyone has an EV though, that will require significantly more capacity. Smarter people than me will have to figure just how high.
I will buy an EV if it makes economic sense to do so. It does not.
I buy only used cars with 100k on them. Typically I pay around 5k. There is no way I’m paying 50k for a Tesla. Even with completely free usage costs it wouldn’t make sense for me to buy an electric car.
Once it makes economic sense to buy one, I will buy one.
The world has supposedly been peaking in oil production in a few years as far back as 1861 ,18 months after Edwin Drake drilled for oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania in