Posted on 01/25/2024 3:00:10 PM PST by cba123
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
There are already competitors, worthy of consideration.
What is needed is for people to have CHEAP cars available.
That is already available some places.
Now, make some available in America.
A hybrid makes sense, an EV less so but it depends on where you live.
If Biden can forgive student debt he can provide us with free EVs. He gives the illegals free housing, food, obama-phones, and medical, where’s MY free stuff?
“either an electric or a hybrid car”
I wonder why they lumped those two together. Well, actually, I don’t.
Learning is an expensive process.
We’d have to dismantle a half dozen federal agencies for that to happen. Imagine a vehicle without air bags, roll up windows, NO back-up cameras, Sirius radio or onboard computer and entertainment system. Do you really want to go back to those primitive days? Why, we’d have to cut the price by at least a third or maybe half. Would it be worth it? No way. I’d have to get out and check my tire pressure by hand!! That’s like what our great grandfathers drove back over the Oregon trail through hostile Indian country.
All relative.
That’s 90% of half of Americans considering a hybrid and 5% considering an EV.
me no tin so
Ummm just read an article about them needing new tires every 7,000-8,000 miles. Sounds like a plan!!
Wishing for something does not make it so.
Sounds like a dinner table of college professors after the drinks, singing Judy Garland’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow Way Up High”.
Just an embarrassing noise.
Wait until they need either collision work or the expensive batteries need replacement. Or it gets cold out or hot out.
“Beth? This is Carolyn. I’m stuck out here. Was supposed to have more range but the EV is dead now. Do you still own the gas engine Honda? Could you drive out here and rescue me?”
I was told once by a tow truck driver that during the first years of hybrids such as the Prius, when the batteries went dead the owners were shocked by the high cost so they just let the cars run on full gas power only. “Most of the hybrid cars on the road were running on the gas engines.”
Then I was told the companies messed around with the system so people have to replace the batteries now.
I never verified that.
The tire pressure sensors are STUPID.
Who wants a GD pressure sensor battery to die, giving them hundreds of dollars in repair after 10 years?
The modern automobile serves the EPA and the dealerships, not the owner.
If we allow Chinese imports they will be a lot cheaper, and gut the domestic auto industry. And the UAW is all in on Biden? It makes no sense.
Here is the money quote:
“This new wave of EV shoppers has a median budget of $50,000 for their next vehicle, compared to an average budget of $59,000 for current EV owners, GBK’s study found.”
Still WAY too high.
Needs to come down at least fifty percent.
Just to START.
native Floridian. not EVEN attempting to outrun a ‘cane in a battery car and until a hybrid carries 50 gallons of petrol, no. just no.
Tires wearing out fast....
Once upon a time there were a lot of tires made and sold in Ohio and other American states.
“Established in 1894, Kelly Tires is the oldest American-made tire brand. Kelly Tires was founded in Springfield, Ohio as a solid-rubber carriage and buggy tire producer.”
“Brothers Frank and Charles Seiberling started Goodyear in 1898, Harvey S. Firestone moved from Chicago to set up shop in Akron in 1900, and William F. O’Neil started General Tire in 1915. Their companies became known as the Big Four.”
As of 2024 there are only two American tire companies: Goodyear and Cooper. Some foreign tire companies that sell in the US also have a few plants here Michelin, Pirelli, Continental, Bridgestone, and Yokohama. Money goes overseas, of course.
Not just the EPA, there’s other parasite gubermint agencies involved dictating to vehicle manufacturers what our vehicles will/will not have on them.
Just bought a new gas guzzler after my 2007 Kia gave up the ghost. The dealer was really pushing the EVs and hybrids. Had to tell them no at least 3 times gas only. Sheesh.
It’s the ‘or’ that raises the percentage.
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