{"id":334763,"date":"2024-06-27T07:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=334763"},"modified":"2024-06-27T07:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:23:50","slug":"electric-regret-almost-half-of-australian-and-us-ev-owners-want-to-go-back-to-a-combustion-engine-and-many-in-the-uk-already-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=334763","title":{"rendered":"Electric regret: Almost half of Australian and US EV owners want to go back to a combustion engine (and many in the UK already have)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MKinsey Survey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

EV Mandated Revolution hits a hurdle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first buyers of EV\u2019s were their most passionate fans, and presumably the people-most-likely to love them, and in the best position to use them. Yet, when surveyed,\u00a049% of Australians who owned an EV<\/a>\u00a0and 46% in the US said they\u00a0want to go back to an internal combustion engine<\/a>\u00a0for their next car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the US and Australia are two nations where nearly everyone has a home-garage or driveway which makes EV ownership a bit easier (as long as the house doesn\u2019t catch fire). Yet even with this cheaper and easier form of charging half the EV owners don\u2019t want another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McKinsey & C<\/a>o surveyed 30,000 people in 15 countries <\/a>and were said to be surprised at the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost half of U.S. electric car owners want to switch back to gas-powered cars, survey shows<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Brad Matthews, The Washington Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had their reasons (boy did they have their reasons):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the owners surveyed who are planning to switch back, 35% cited the lack of charging infrastructure, 34% said the costs were too high, 32% said planning long driving trips was too difficult, 24% said they could not currently charge at home, 21% said worrying about charging was too stressful and 13% said they did not enjoy how the cars felt while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 9% of drivers across all countries surveyed said that current charging infrastructure was sufficient to meet their needs. While some electric car drivers want to switch back, 38% of internal combustion car drivers surveyed said they are considering buying a battery-powered or plug-in hybrid electric car as their next vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that. I thought, \u2019Once an EV buyer, always an EV buyer,\u2019\u201d Philipp Kampshoff, the leader of the\u00a0McKinsey Center for Future Mobility<\/strong>,\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Automotive News.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Since the McKinsey Centre for Future Mobilit<\/em>y has a mission to help people \u201ctransform\u201d the way they move, we would assume this survey was designed to show the more promising side of EV ownership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average EV owner planning to trade in for another EV around the world was 29%, so presumably there are some countries where EV\u2019s are slightly less awful. Though that is not apparently in the British Isles. Actual trade-in statistics in the UK suggest the reality might be worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Why I ditched my Tesla for a 12-year-old petrol car\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Wright, The Telegraph<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCar dealership chain Motorpoint Group said the majority of electric vehicle (EV) owners who sold their car in the last year didn\u2019t buy another one \u2013 opting instead for a petrol, diesel or hybrid model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statistics from Motorpoint show that only 30pc of EV owners part-exchanging their car in the past year chose to buy another electric car<\/strong>, with 36pc opting for petrol, 11pc diesel and 23pc hybrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Bamford, a Tesla owner for four years, is one of the many electric car owners to switch back to combustion power in recent months. Despite driving a mostly trouble-free 34,000 miles, he suffered \u201cinstances of extreme range anxiety\u201d<\/a> and is ditching the zero-emission motor in favour of a 12-year-old Mini Cooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much longer can the saviours of the world keep trying to force this dead-horse \u201ctransition\u201d upon us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The car manufacturers surely realize they are being forced into a financial dead end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first buyers of EV\u2019s were their most passionate fans, and presumably the people-most-likely to love them, and in the best position to use them. Yet, when surveyed, 49% of Australians who owned an EV and 46% in the US said they want to go back to an internal combustion engine for their next car.<\/p>\n

And the US and Australia are two nations where nearly everyone has a home-garage or driveway which makes EV ownership a bit easier (as long as the house doesn\u2019t catch fire). Yet even with this cheaper and easier form of charging half the EV owners don\u2019t want another one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":334771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691818559,691821977,691827996,691819168],"class_list":["post-334763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-combustion-engine","tag-electric-vehicles-evs","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/OIG-2023-11-10T201418.269.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1p5p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":289557,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=289557","url_meta":{"origin":334763,"position":0},"title":"EV\u2019s report 80% more problems than petrol, diesel cars","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jo Nova Add it to the list. 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