Nearly half of Americans are unwilling to change their car to an electric one, a study has found.
According to the results of a survey released by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago Public Opinion Research Center (NORC) and Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) on the 11th, 47% of respondents said that they are not likely to buy an electric car next time they buy a car.
The survey was conducted on a sample of 5,408 US adults from January to February, and the sample error is ±1.7 percentage points.
19% of respondents said the possibility of purchasing an electric vehicle was “very high”, and 22% answered “somewhat likely”, with 41% of respondents giving a positive answer.
According to the results of the survey, 4 out of 10 Americans said they would buy an electric car in the future.
As a factor for not liking electric vehicles, 6 out of 10 respondents cited “expensive price”.
According to the US car information site ‘Kelly Blue Book’, the average price of a new electric car sold in the US is over $58,000 (about 76.71 million won).
The AP pointed out that considering the average price of all cars sold in the United States is below $46,000 (about 60.84 million won), the price of an electric car is difficult for many households in the United States to access.
In addition, the new regulations of the US Treasury Department will reduce the number of electric vehicles that can receive a tax deduction of 7,500 dollars (approximately 9.92 million won), and the deduction amount can be reduced by half to 3,750 dollars (approximately 4.96 million won). The AP predicted that there would be no incentive to change gasoline vehicles to electric vehicles.
The lack of charging stations was also cited as a reason for not liking electric vehicles.
Three-quarters of respondents to the survey said, “there are too few charging stations”, and half of them said this was their main reason for not buying an electric car.
Two-thirds of all respondents said they would not consider switching to an electric vehicle because they “like gasoline vehicles better”.
Looking at the political orientation of these respondents, 54% of Republicans, about half, cited ‘preference for gasoline vehicles’ as the main reason, and 29% of Democrats gave the same response.
The Associated Press pointed out that although the US government is implementing several policies to convert internal combustion engine vehicles to eco-friendly vehicles to reduce carbon emissions, there is still a long way to go in terms of consumer perception.