As I have been alluding to for years, Electric Vehicles (EVs) are not going to be the wave of the future that certain segments of our population want them to be. As I have said many times there are multiple reasons for this, and now there is a survey that shows that what I have predicted, is, in fact, coming to fruition.
From CV NEWS FEED:
“The percentage of Americans who say they are in the market for an electric vehicle (EV) has fallen significantly in the past year.
Public sentiment toward EVs has largely soured despite the Biden-Harris administration’s years-long effort to push them as an alternative to gas-powered vehicles.
Yahoo Finance’s Pras Subramanian last week reported the “consulting firm EY found that only 34% of US consumers plan to purchase an [EV] as their next car.”
“That’s down from 48% in EY’s 2023 survey,” Subramanian noted. He explained that this percentage includes customers who were in the market for partially electric vehicles such as hybrids.”
“The percentage of consumers in the market for fully electric-powered non-hybrid EVs was cut in half over the past year, according to the same source.
Subramanian indicated that per EY’s 2024 survey, “a paltry 11%” customers said they considered purchasing “fully electric vehicles.” By comparison, 22% said they considered buying this subset of EVs in last year’s EY survey.”
As we all are well aware this is an election year, and so how does that influence the stance taken by the Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris?
An April CRC Research poll found that a strong majority (57%) of respondents across seven battleground states opposed Biden-Harris emission standards intended to regulate the presence of traditional gas vehicles.
As CatholicVote reported in May, the poll’s “respondents were equally distributed throughout the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”
In recent weeks, the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has stressed that the candidate does not support a so-called “EV mandate.”
In a piece published late last month, The New York Post’s Victor Nava characterized the sitting vice president’s apparent policy change as “yet another walkback on behalf of the California Democrat and possibly the biggest one of them all.”
Harris, 59, co-sponsored legislation in April 2019 that sought to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2040.
During a last Monday CNN appearance, Axios National Political Reporter Alex Thompson said that he asked Harris’ campaign if she “would sign a bill she co-sponsored in 2019 [in the Senate] that basically mandated automakers to only make electric vehicles by 2035, 2040.”
“And, it took six days for me to get an answer,” Thompson told CNN hostess Brianna Kielar. “And the answer at the end of those six days was ‘No comment.’”
No, I am not surprised on the recent data on EVs, although personally, I was surprised to find that Americans are also souring on hybrids, as I have forecast that hybrids are the wave of the future.
Kamala’s stance on EVs is well known, and we all know what this means if Kamala is elected in November!
Be very careful, Americans!
9/24/24
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