May 27, 2022 – Range anxiety no longer the top concern for EV shoppers, but comes in second, cited by 44 percent of the 1350 car shoppers Autolist surveyed.
While tax credits are available for some EV buyers, high up-front purchase prices are now the key hurdle for EV adoption in Autolist’s findings. While EVs offer lower running and maintenance costs than gasoline vehicles, 28 percent of respondents said they were totally unwilling to pay more for an electric vehicle than a similar gasoline-powered vehicle.
The biggest issue that should not be a big issue is that 23 percent of shoppers said they didn’t want to buy an EV because they don’t know enough about them. That sounds more like an opportunity than a problem.
