Are You Considering About an EV?

Not too long ago we participated in an Earth Day occasion at a library in Door County, Wisconsin. The occasion provided us a chance to work together with most people so we determined to conduct a brief survey on electrical automobiles (EVs).

Now attendees at an Earth Day occasion aren’t “typical” shoppers. We knew this viewers would tilt inexperienced however we additionally thought it could be helpful to know what this greenish viewers thought of EVs.

Slightly below 40 folks accomplished our survey, which suggests it’s a small pattern and we received’t draw any huge conclusions. Extra, people did this survey on their telephone or our iPad whereas standing at our desk, generally whereas additionally juggling toddlers, which suggests that they had restricted time and a focus. (Arguably that makes them somewhat extra typical—everybody we’re all attempting to succeed in has restricted time and a focus.)

What we heard was attention-grabbing.

Survey Outcomes

On this greenish crowd, one survey respondent owned an EV and eight reported that they weren’t acquainted with EVs. Everybody else mentioned they’d examine EVs or been in a single (as a driver or a passenger). As you would possibly count on, the majority of oldsters had a couple of EV interplay—many had learn articles, watched movies and both pushed or been a passenger in an EV. About one-third of respondents reported that they had been doubtless or very prone to take into account an EV the following time they bought a automobile, which is according to varied different surveys but additionally not terribly informative since we people are fairly terrible at predicting our personal behaviors.

We had been most inquisitive about what these respondents thought of EVs. We requested two open-ended questions to know what was entrance of thoughts for them. We had been inquisitive about what they considered first relative to advantages and considerations. (The responses under are verbatim; a quantity in parenthesis signifies