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.

“These are later adopters, and because of that, they’re not as driven by innovation or even design,” Korst said. “They have more functional needs, and they’re much more pragmatic and thinking about the total cost of ownership both in price and in effort, like, ‘how do I charge so what’s that going to take? How much time is it going to take me?’”

  • @Yaztromo
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    49 months ago

    700 miles in 12 hours isn’t even 60 miles/hour. I’m pretty sure every EV on the market that isn’t a golf cart can do that.

    • @GlitterInfection
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      59 months ago

      With you stopping to charge for an extra 3-5 hours.

      I’ve done this with my EV and while it’s kind of fun, it is still a ton of added time.

      • @cymbal_king
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        79 months ago

        My Ioniq 5 did a 12 hour drive over the holidays and only needed about 1.5 hours of total charge time

        • @GlitterInfection
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          49 months ago

          Fair. I have a 2020 Hyundai Kona AV with a smidge less range.