According to a recent survey, almost half of American electric vehicle owners regret buying them and want to switch to an internal combustion engine aircraft.
According to the McKinsey Mobility Consumer Pulse survey for 2024, 46 % of Americans who own electric vehicles are “very” likely to choose a standard gas-powered aircraft as their next purchase.
Philipp Kampshoff, the mind of McKinsey’s Center for Future Mobility, was surprised by how many Americans were eager to move up to gas- powered cars.
” I did n’t expect that”, Kampshoff told Automotive News. ” I thought,’ When an EV purchaser, constantly an EV buyer.'”
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The McKinsey survey collected the opinions of nearly 37, 000 consumers all over the world, with only Australia reporting a higher proportion of owners of electric cars ( 49 % ) who said they are likely to choose a gas-powered vehicle in the future. Experts also interviewed users in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Norway. 29 percent of those who said they were likely to give up the electric vehicle frenzy were on average in all of the countries included in the study.
The biggest obstacles to accepting the electronic alternatives were the high costs, lower familiarity with electric vehicles, and a skepticism of the technology. Those most likely to buy electric vehicles were usually younger, rich, and cosmopolitan. The most frequently cited reasons for returning to gas-powered cars were the lack of charging system and overall ownership costs.
Make no mistake: Electric cars are the subject of billions in tax subsidies and near-perfect policy in the press, despite being a blatant failure, according to Larry Behrens, Power the Future’s communications director, in The Federalist. The majority of Americans do n’t want to buy one, and even those who signed up for one are now regretting it, according to the report.
Despite the opposition and regret, the Biden presidency has vigorously promoted the cars as a key component of White House initiatives to reduce emissions. More than two dozen attorneys general sued the federal government in April for the EPA’s ( EPA ) electric vehicle mandate. The EPA had previously stated a month prior that car manufacturers were required to reduce “fleetwide average carbon emissions” by 56 % over an eight-year period. The requirements may need the industry to produce and sell more electric cars before there is a need.
In fact, 57 % of the more than 1, 000 Americans surveyed said they were unlikely to buy an electric car in the first place, according to an Ipsos  poll conducted with Yahoo Finance last fall. Another 11 cent said they were confused.
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman stated that the Biden Administration is willing to sacrifice the American automobile market and its staff in order to support its extreme green agenda. ” We just are n’t buying it. Even those who want to buy one ca n’t afford it because of historical inflation, and demand for EVs continues to decline.
Chinese manufacturers with a stranglehold on nutrient supply chains have benefited from the generous incentives from the Biden administration. A 2022 report from the left-wing Brookings Institute warned that China’s dominance of crucial minerals is putting pressure on eastern economies that are extremely dependent on overseas refinement to advance development of cutting-edge technologies like electric vehicles.
” Most notably, China holds 78 percent of the world’s cell manufacturing capacity for]electric vehicle ] batteries, which are then assembled into units that are used to form a battery pack”, the report read.
