of 8,027 US adults on the experience, knowledge, and expectations Americans around the country have about EVs. How much interest and familiarity is there for EVs? What are the barriers and motivating factors which influence making the switch?
According to the Consumer Reports 2022 survey, 29 percent of rural drivers would definitely or seriously consider buying or leasing an EV. Another 33 percent might consider getting an EV in the future.So why are these explicit expressions of interest not reflected in increased adoption rates in rural areas? It is instructive to consider how different the experience of buying and owning an EV can be compared to a gasoline-powered vehicle. These differences include charging logistics vs.
There is much work to be done in the dissemination of information about EVs in both urban and rural areas to help guide prospective EV drivers in this big transition to electrification, and rural drivers are currently the least exposed to thisOnly 6 percent of rural dwellers, as opposed to 10 percent of urban dwellers, said they were very familiar with the fundamentals of owning an EV, while another 30 percent in both rural and urban areas said they were somewhat familiar.
Looking at the numbers on concerns about charging, 63 percent of rural dwellers said that what is most likely to hold them back is the lack of enough public charging stations, compared to 58 percent of urban dwellers . The fact that public charging is very much on all drivers’ minds comes up again when respondents were asked to choose among the charging options that would most likely encourage them to get an EV.