Survey: EV price, range anxiety, infrastructure keep car shoppers away:
this week, and it reveals both pitfalls and promise for purveyors of electric vehicles. The good news? Range anxiety, once the bugbear of mainstream thought about EVs, is no longer the top concern for shoppers. The bad news? Range anxiety is now second, cited by 44 percent of the 1350 car shoppers Autolist surveyed in April and May, following the high price of EVs and questions about infrastructure .
"These are the same top three concerns that we saw in 2019 and again in 2021," Autolist CEO Corey Lydstone said in a statement."While sales of EVs are slowly improving as more compelling models hit the market, consumers' impressions of electric vehicles aren't improving."While tax credits are available for some EV buyers, high up-front purchase prices are n0w the key hurdle for EV adoption in Autolist's findings.
Putting Autolist's findings into context with other EV surveys is worthwhile. Earlier this month, KBB released its
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