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?’”

  • @IMongoose
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    110 months ago

    Are you confusing PHEVs (Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles) with whatever hydrogen cars are called?

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      Oh I think I am. I thought they said fuel cell electric vehicles instead of plug in hybrid. Toyota also bet big on hydrogen, so my brain jumped to that that’s what the comment must be referring to. Thanks for pointing that out!