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.
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“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?’”
The primes are enticing, but not 20k more expensive enticing. The escape PHEV is near perfect (same beautiful transmission as Toyota) but is FWD only. You need to go up to the lincoln corsair grand touring to get AWD and then suddenly it’s 50k. wtf? Why will no one sell a sub 50k AWD PHEV?
Why will no one sell a sub 50k AWD PHEV?
I mean you’re asking a lot for 50k.
Escape = (Engine/Hybrid) + Battery(PVEH)
Rav4 Hybrid = (Engine/Hybrid) + Extra Motors/Diff(AWD)
But your asking for,
(Engine/Hybrid) + Battery(PVEH) + Extra Motors/Diff(AWD)
That’s a lot of equipment.
I’m saying that the prime is not twice the car of the hybrid because it has a wall plug. It’s the huge motors and huge battery. There’s a middle ground.
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