But most are worried about the price and the lack of public charging facilitiesThe Royal Automobile Association said 43 per cent of people they surveyed would consider purchasing an EV, 40 per cent said they wouldn't consider it while 18 per cent said they weren't sure or didn't know.
The association said they distributed their survey to more than 20,000 members via email between June and July and received 868 valid responses.Mark Borlace says the survey found one of the great barriers to buying to an electric vehicle is its cost."What we're seeing is about half of people are preparing to pay between $5,000 to $10,000 more for an EV to make that transition," Mr Borlace said.
Mr Borlace says the good news is smaller EVs will soon become cheaper to buy in Australia, while more EVs with longer driving distance per charge were coming on to the market. He said one charge allows 350 kilometres "on highway speed", more if he's driving around metropolitan Adelaide.