Gallup: 57% Say They Won’t Buy an Electric Car No Matter What The Cost of Gas…
The Chevy Volt (aka- the official car of the Obama administration) hardest hit.
(USA Today) — Nearly six of 10 Americans — 57% — say they won’t buy an all-electric car no matter the price of gas, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.
That’s a stiff headwind just as automakers are developing electrics to help meet tighter federal rules that could require their fleets to average as high as 62 miles per gallon in 2025. And President Obama has set a goal of a million electric vehicles in use in the U.S. by 2015.
The anti-electric sentiment unmasked by the poll shows that pure electrics — defined in the poll question as “an electric car that you could only drive for a limited number of miles at one time” — could have trouble getting a foothold in the U.S.
Such cars “are very much niche vehicles. They find acceptance among a core group of passionistas, but too many questions remain for mainstream consumers,” says Edmunds.com CEO Jeremy Anwyl. He says consumers worry about range per charge, recharge time and battery replacement cost. Electrics also are priced thousands of dollars more than similar gasoline cars.
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When they offer the flying broom, count me in on that.
I don’t see how buying a coal fire powered car will be any cheaper to fuel, or have any affect on climate control of the planet.
No place to recharge them in cities like New York, where most people park on the street.
That’s aside from all the other reasons not to buy them, such as that they are expensive, don’t go far, and create huge pollution issues with their monstrous batteries.
Heck…I bet it’s a lot higher than that poll in reality across this country!
The thing NO ONE tells you about these cars, is that after 3-4 years, when you are ready to sell it, the battery pack is ready to be replaced at a cost of 12-15 THOUSAND dollars. How you gonna sell a POS car that needs a 12 K investment just to run?
In order to have sucess with the electric car it will need:
1. To be cheaper than competion
2. Beat the competion in stlying,performace and cost of ownership.
3. Have an infastructure in place.
The global warming crowd approves of charging an energy sucking car battery but light bulbs are bad for the environment?
I forgot about this website, someone posted it on a different thread… http://www.commieblaster.com/socialist_czars/index.html
If obama isn’t a commie, then why are all the czars he appointed?
The automobile was successful because it ran on gasoline, which previous to the invention of the internal combustion engine was a waste product that was dumped in rivers by oil refiners making kerosene for lamps.
Of course, the old, simple cars could run on kerosene if they had to—or cooking oil, for that matter. One of the reasons that the automobile was so profoundly successful once Henry Ford brought the cost of manufacture down to the point where it was affordable by almost anyone.
Hyper-expensive cars that can run only when they’ve got a charging station are a failure from the get-go.
Keeping a battery charged at that expense etal… seems like a major step backward as technology is concerned. What a primitive way to deal with a car.
I think this number will change once the infrastructure is more mature. But the Volt is a loser. Expensive and basically a hybrid. The Nissan Leaf, on the other hand, can be bought for approximately $21K in California. I live in San Diego and the Electric company is installing 1,500 chargers in the county. If I can charge at home, at work and elsewhere, I have no issues with buying a car like the Leaf.
Face of a drug addicted marxist with a chip on his shoulder.
Eddie Murphy-Kill the White People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ArtQku7QBI
There sits the Chevy Dolt in a Chevy Volt. The very same dolt that proclaimed that electricity costs will necessarily skyrocket due to some ingenious big government plan to save the planet from the humans. The emerging Command Economy looks so bright, we’ll all be walking.
57 per cent does not constitute a majority to this guy. Consent is whatever the hell he says it is.
the point, as the lefties say, is to drive electric to reduce carbon emissons, right?
but electric cars require a tremendous amount of electricity, and unlike a regular car which people do not fill up everyday, an electric car has to be “filled up” / plugged in, every single day.
and electricity comes from coal, so more coal will be burnt and used, so more carbon emissions,
so how does this help with reduction of carbon emissions? it will actually be more.
The only good thing I can see is less dependency on foreign oil, but coal companies are being fined more and more by the EPA, so out electricity costs will go higher, so again, this is the most convulated unlogic I have ever seen.
@ San Diego Chicken
I agree with you Chicken. The Leaf is almost to the point of being competitive for SD driving. Home of the Chargers I might add.
Yeah, and more than half of the 43 percent who say they will buy electric cars can’t afford one.
“He says consumers worry about range per charge, recharge time and battery replacement cost. Electrics also are priced thousands of dollars more than similar gasoline cars.”
When those factors change expect that there will be a large market for EV’s. Also, you can expect that when EV’s gain wide acceptance in the market, the environmentalists will condemn them as being bad for the environment (toxic batteries; electricity generated through hydro, nuclear, and coal) and start a campaign to end their use.
Stuff it, “Burry.”
“The anti-electric sentiment unmasked by the poll shows that pure electrics — defined in the poll question as “an electric car that you could only drive for a limited number of miles at one time” — could have trouble getting a foothold in the U.S.”
The Chevy Volt is not a “an an electric car that you could only drive for a limited number of miles at one time”, it has a gas engine that, when the batteries are getting low, kicks-in to recharge them. Therefore, as long as you keep gas in the tank, you have unlimited mileage with electric propulsion.
Personally, I always like to know the facts about something before I make comments…………..
Rename it the Chevy Dolt.
Angry American says:
May 25, 2011 at 9:17 pm
The Chevy Volt is not a “an an electric car that you could only drive for a limited number of miles at one time”, it has a gas engine that, when the batteries are getting low, kicks-in to recharge them. Therefore, as long as you keep gas in the tank, you have unlimited mileage with electric propulsion.
Gee, that sounds like a perpetual-motion machine. Oh, wait—it’s not; you have to keep gas in the tank and run the gasoline engine. So that means it’s not an electric car, but a crappy gas-engined car with a big fat dead-weight battery—because (surprise!) if you keep gas in the tank of a conventional car, you also have “unlimited mileage.”
I dont have a problem with every lib in the country driving one, law of supply and demand says less demand for gas = lower prices for said gas for others.
BUT not one dime of my tax money should subsidize the idiots who want to buy one.
BTW states are already looking for ways to get special taxes against electrics cause no or lower gasoline taxes are lowering states and federal incomes via gas taxes.
If they really want to save enviroment, battery powered electric motor, pedal powered gennie to charge the batteries while on the move, throw a solar cell on the roof for while parked in the daytime and a wind turbine to generate electric while on the move and while parked on the top floor of the parking garage,
NOW THATS GREEN
If you have ever lived up North or taken a chemistry class you would know that an all electric vehicle is practically worthless at lower temperatures than about 40 degrees. Drop it to below 20 degrees or colder (Mason Dixon Line) and the battery life is about 15-20%. Drop it to 0 degrees (Chicago northward) and it is maybe 5%. All Electric vehicles are entirely unworkable for large swaths of the United States for significant fall, winter, and spring of the year. Hybrid vehicles provide some capacity for operations at lower temperatures, but the performance and fuel efficiency are dramatically affected below 20 degrees.
In addition the use of a heater (like you might want to be comfortable at 0 degrees in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Cleveland, etc. is a further draw on battery life.
These may be options for sunny Southern CA or Florida, but fuggetaboutit for the ROckies of the northern states
Electric cars.
One of the few things that may be even stupider than the ethanol scam.
Better dead than burqa’ed
love the name.
Stick the Chevy Dolt up yer arse, Obummer!
I will NEVER buy a GM product again. NEVER.
I’ll gladly give my money to Japan or Germany over the communist left and UAW thugs in this once great land.
What is not being discussed is the FACT that these cars are deathtraps. In the case of a crash, the fire department –when attempting to cut you out of a mangled car must use the jaws of life on EXACTLY the right spot or instant ELECTROCUTION will occur, not only to the firefighter, but the person(s) they are trying to extricate from being pinned in a wrecked electric car. FACT.
Check up on how GM is “studying” this inconvenient truth. They are keeping this very quiet. (SHOCK!) Other interesting features of these death traps is that the batteries can explode on impact. They also can spontaneously CATCH ON FIRE. Spontaneous! Check out the story of the people up in Connecticutt recently whose GARAGE burned down with both their electric cars in it. Both charging.