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?’”
Kia niro ev. You can get a 2019 model for ~25k, and it just looks like a normal hatchback.
Kia is also doing paywall subscription stuff. I hate this time line.
I have the nitro ev. Can definitely recommend but it’s going to be annoying when every charger only supports NACS standard in a few years though
Still too big and bulky. I want a roadster EV; something no bigger than a Miata or 350Z.
Anything larger than a midsized car sucks in the handling department, and I hate that my country has such a hard on for them.