Posted on 09/29/2014 7:29:45 AM PDT by LogicDesigner
Electric cars aren't selling nearly as well as many predicted. Why is that?
Research suggests a host of reasons—including a basic lack of familiarity, a high price tag, misconceptions about the cars—and ineffective government incentives.
Consider the lack of familiarity. In a survey by researchers from Indiana University and the University of Kansas, respondents couldn't correctly answer basic factual questions about plug-in electric vehicles more than 60% of the time. Some 75% of wrong answers underestimated the beneficial aspects of the vehicles.
The survey, the most exhaustive on consumer perceptions of electric cars in recent years, was published in the journal Energy Policy last year, and was based on field work conducted in several U.S. cities in 2011.
Key Differences
Many respondents didn't realize that all-electric cars require less maintenance than gasoline-powered cars. Oil changes aren't necessary, for example, and there are fewer breakable parts. The study also found that people often underestimated the fuel savings electric cars offer.
"The lack of accurate information about electric vehicles certainly [has] contributed to their small adoption," says Rachel Krause, an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, and a co-author of the study.
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Uh, extension chords too short?
What’s Holding Back Electric-Car Sales?
Common sense? The ability to do math?
Got infrastructure?
Solution looking for a problem.
They suck maybe? Not even close to being competitive even with the government support.
because they’re only on step above a Golf cart ?
What’s Holding Back Electric-Car Sales?
Intelligence..............
Got junk will travel, just not very far...
60-100 miles on a charge? Gee, that’s not inconvenient. Does the author realize how fast you can rack up 60 miles, just running errands?
Low ROI
Severe Opportunity costs
Mature and competent competition
While not having to purchase gas you will need to replace that $10,000.00 battery.
Too expensive, they lack distance, lack of charging stations, and most of all IT ISN”T GREENER. Electricity has to be produced from something and that is usually oil
I'm sure no one here falls into this category. /s
Because we have a serious shortage of quality people doing the predicting.
What’s holding sales back?
How about expense, range, charging times, charging stations, styling, and performance?
And I say that as one who’d love to have an electric car that didn’t generate more commuting worries than having to drive through Obama’s old “community organizing” neighborhood.
“a high price tag, misconceptions about the cars”
1. High prices.
2. The misconceptions about the car are generally higher expectations that what can be delivered
3. Finally, the law of thermodynamics may figure in here for the smarter people in that you can’t get something for nothing, or even break even. This means that the same energy (more actually) used to charge the car up is the equivalent of the gasoline that would have been used.
Ah yes, unlike the effective ones which they want to use, the ones that begin with, "You are hereby required to...." and end with "...punishable by fine, imprisonment or both."
Real World Leaf Range 27 - 38 miles
http://www.plugincars.com/real-world-leaf-range-27-38-miles.html
They’re perfect, but a little pricey for tooling around Beverly Hills. I suspect they don’t work so well in Minnesota, the Rockies or Phoenix.
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