The unhappy fact is that electric cars are popular in the United States.
It’s one thing for Americans to know little about electric vehicles. A recent review through John Helveston of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering at George Washington University and Laura Roberson gives reasons and remedies for the low rate of electric vehicle adoption.
“WeArray … that the vast majority of respondents were unable to politely answer fundamental questions of wisdom [on electric vehicles],” according to the study, “Adopting electric vehicles: can brief reports lead to major changes?”
Previous studies highlighted through others, which found that consumers “lack the fundamental wisdom on many aspects” of VEs. This includes parts such as purchase price, charging time, battery life, electricity prices, and maintenance.
In one case, only 18% of respondents responded to a key consultation on “complement” rather than “fuel supply”.
“There are big promises for electric cars once other people boarded them and read about them,” Helves told me in an email.
“Unfortunately, most other people know very little about them, and few have even noticed one.”
He also presented a forward-looking remedy: a quick 3- to 5-minute adventure in an electric vehicle.
“Our examination shows that having direct delight, even for a few minutes, with a [rechargeable electric vehicle] may simply be to convert public opinion on PPE on a large scale,” the exam reads.
This is consistent with my own experience. A short electric vehicle is sometimes a pleasant surprise for those who in the past expressed a lack of interest in electric vehicles.
In the footnote, the test made one exception: Tesla. He saw his good fortune in the market as an anomaly in a relatively solid market place in a different way from year to year.
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Observations:
Over the years, when I interviewed friends, acquaintances and strangers about electric cars, I revel in the lack of basic confidence that an electric car can take them from point A to point B reliably. And invariably, it’s because they have little wisdom about electric cars. And the explanation of why it’s simple: they’re not interested.
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I am a founding member of CNET News and Hardware Editor at CNET, a generation journalist collaborating with the New York Times and reporter and editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, the latter in Japan, where I lived for ten years. He is currently a reporter for Fox News.