no doubt the cost is part of the reason for the following!
19 Oct: Business Insider: Most Americans still don’t want an electric car — and many EV buyers end up going back to gas
by Tim Levin
Most Americans don’t intend to buy an electric car in the near future, according to a new study.
People who do spring for an EV often buy a gas car as their next purchase, per another study...
In a recent poll conducted by Yahoo Finance and Ipsos, 57% of respondents said they were not likely to choose an EV when they buy their next car. (For the purposes of the study, EVs included fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids, which have a larger battery and more electric range than traditional hybrids.)
Of that majority, 36% said they were “not at all likely” to go electric, while 21% said they were “not too likely.”...
The biggest factors turning potential buyers off from EVs are the same worries that consistently pop up in these kinds of surveys: High vehicle cost, limited driving range, and insufficient charging infrastructure...
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-americans-dont-want-an-electric-car-2023-10
19 Oct: Drive.com: Study finds up to half of all electric-car owners considering a switch back to petrol power
by Ben Zachariah
According to a US study from S&P Global Mobility, first reported on by website Electrek, three-quarters of electric vehicle owners say that would buy another battery-powered car – but that number falls to about half once Tesla owners are removed from the statistics...
https://www.drive.com.au/news/study-finds-some-electric-car-owners-considering-a-switch-back-to-petrol-power/
“— and many EV buyers end up going back to gas”
Well, duhh. With EVs everywhere, one is no longer able to rub their new EV in the noses of their ‘friends’, so why the hell buy another one?
Let alone it renders them a use it up and throw away product. Because of depreciation alone there will be zero trade in value when those batteries are dead. In fact, it will cost you to have it towed out of your yard to the wrecking yard.