Claims that electric vehicles don’t have enough demand may be overblown.

A new study from GBK Collective, published Thursday, found that half of the more than 2,000 US car consumers they interviewed were considering either an electric or a hybrid car for their next vehicle purchase.

This far outweighs the current ownership trends found in the study. Only 14% of those surveyed already own a plug-in or hybrid vehicle of some kind. It’s another piece of evidence of a huge opportunity for EV manufacturers to home in on the needs of these green car-curious consumers.

“These are not the same kind of customers who created the initial EV market,” GBK President Jeremy Korst told Business Insider in an interview.

“These are later adopters, and because of that, they’re not as driven by innovation or even design,” Korst said. “They have more functional needs, and they’re much more pragmatic and thinking about the total cost of ownership both in price and in effort, like, ‘how do I charge so what’s that going to take? How much time is it going to take me?’”

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If anything, all the right-wing idiots that say “they all catch fire” or “EV’s are for gays” make me want one even more. They’re basically doing all the marketing for the EV companies - all someone needs to do is release a solid, affordable EV.

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“Bad press”? If they mean Teslas, sure; they’re garbage. But I just want an EV that’s affordable.

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I think they mean Republican media.

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Cheaper and not a Tesla.

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And not Chinese chabuduo malware.

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Order your QVKZFAST REAL ELECTRIC BATTERY CAR STREET HIGHWAY ROAD LONGRANGE CHARGE CHARGEABLE COMFORT today!

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Citroën Ë-C3?

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Just make them as cheap and reliable as the dinosaur guzzlers and I’ll happily buy and drive one. Especially if you can get that second hand.

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The weird part is an electric motor is innately way more reliable than an internal combusion engine, its 1 moving part versus hundreds. No idea how EV makers are fucking up so badly on the reliablity front.

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Yea… Fuck no

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