With elitists everywhere so desperate to push the fantasy of electric vehicles, one polling firm set out to see how satisfied EV owners actually are… and the result was not encouraging for the EV industry.
The new survey from McKinsey and Co. which was taken across nine countries finds that huge numbers of EV owners have buyer’s remorse.
The number of Americans who bought an EV was particularly dismal as 46 percent said they wished they’d bought a gas-powered car instead.
According to the Washington Times:
Nearly half of American owners of electric cars want to switch back to traditional cars powered by internal combustion engines, according to a consumer survey released by McKinsey and Co. earlier this month.
The consulting firm surveyed consumers in multiple countries: the U.S., China, Germany, Norway, Australia, France, Italy, Japan and Brazil. Between all of those countries, 29% of electric car owners want to return to driving internal combustion cars, with 46% of surveyed American electric car owners wanting to do so.
This surprised the consulting firm, cutting against received wisdom about people’s switch to electric.
The poll also found that the number of people across all nations who say they never want an EV remained steady at 21 percent. While that number seems small, the fact that it is not going down means EVs are not gaining new fans.
My guess is that even those who love the whole idea of EVs will begin turning against them in droves when they finally realize in about 5 to 10 years that they are stuck with these lemons because they have absolutely no resale vale you at all. Once people start realizing that new car dealers will not take old EVs as trade-ins and then they will be stuck paying the full freight for these boondoggles, and if they want a new car they’ll have to start from scratch, they will suddenly realize that EVs were a bad, bad decision from the git go.
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