Less than 1% of EV owners would return to full gas-powered cars

[GreaseMonkey]

Definitely going back.

From what? A 2013 GT350? ?

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[hypersnake]

I'm certainly not going back to a ICE car, however, I'm not ready to give up our family's ICE SUV. I'm hoping for some improvements in battery technology that can get a mid sized SUV closer to 400 miles range and hopefully have some faster DC fast charging times with better cold weather performance. Would also be nice to see better infrastructure for fast charging.

Until those things happen I'm not ready to go electric with both our vehicles.

 

[highland58]

I could see where a person that has to drive somewhere to charge every time, like an apartment dweller, might go back to an ICE, especially if their EV was a Tesla

 

[Teslaeata]

Go back to an ICE car? Are you mad? I couldn’t even get out of my MME it’s such a good car, and that’s after 103,000 miles on road trips which nearly always exceed my range.

God, I love this car?

 

[dabois89]

Me after starting my moms car for her to warm it up:

 

[Fat Mach]

From what? A 2013 GT350? ?

I'm on my third plug in to be able to go in the carpool lane. All that sunsets next Sep. I'd much rather daily a newer GT500 than the MME.

 

[Fat Mach]

Does anyone actually believe it's 1%? I thought we went through a few threads saying at least 20% were not going to get another EV.

 

[GreaseMonkey]

I'm on my third plug in to be able to go in the carpool lane. All that sunsets next Sep. I'd much rather daily a newer GT500 than the MME.

Do you drive electric? Plug-in is not electric.

 

[Mach1E]

Does anyone actually believe it's 1%? I thought we went through a few threads saying at least 20% were not going to get another EV.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing the 1% number.

Then again, it’s just a survey after all.

I would bet if we look at vehicle registrations it would tell a different story.

Give it time. People’s lives and needs change.

I can’t see me wanting a gas car for a daily driver at the moment, but if my job changed where I had a long commute, that would be different.

Or if I wanted to road trip a bunch, or need to pull a trailer, etc.

BEVs are amazing daily drivers around town. But they don’t do everything well. And definitely not 99% of everything well.

 

[Fat Mach]

Do you drive electric? Plug-in is not electric.

My GTPE has been my daily for three years.

 

[Teslaeata]

My GTPE has been my daily for three years.

So has mine, 103,000 miles a daily driver.

mine does virtually everything 100% and what very little’s left 99.999999%

Love this car!

 

[Doobster6]

I’ll never go back to an ICE Car for all the reasons others have already stated. And as soon as they solve the problems of excess time-to-charge and lack of charging infrastructure (both of which only affect long distance road trips for us) my wife will ditch her Infiniti and go electric too. ICE cars, for all their improvements over the past 100 years, are done. Petrol engines have always been, and will always be, fundamentally inefficient, wasting 60% or more of their potential energy as heat, which compares very poorly to a well-designed electric motor system which can use more than 90% of the energy it takes in. Combine that with low-to-no maintenance costs and it’s truly game over for ICE vehicles. Watching a performance EV quietly obliterate a roaring, belching ‘muscle car’ at the drag strip makes them look silly in comparison.

 

[Benewil]

I cannot go back...I'm friendly and complementary of all my friends and neighbors when they get a new ICE and are showing it off and I tell them how cool it is, but deep down I'm like "have fun with that garbage torque converter, shifting transmission nonsense and lack of 1 pedal drive"

I could go back to driving a manual ICE...but no more slushboxes for me.

Any chance there will ever be a manual EV, do you suppose?

 

[TheVirtualTim]

I can easily believe its the majority that wont go back, but I doubt the 1% number as well.

One reason is the percentage of people who cannot charge at home and would have no choice but to rely on public charging. Public charging is usually neither convenient nor cost-effective. But if you can charge at home … that’s a completely different experience.

 

[Blue highway]

I’ll never go back to an ICE Car for all the reasons others have already stated. And as soon as they solve the problems of excess time-to-charge and lack of charging infrastructure (both of which only affect long distance road trips for us) my wife will ditch her Infiniti and go electric too. ICE cars, for all their improvements over the past 100 years, are done. Petrol engines have always been, and will always be, fundamentally inefficient, wasting 60% or more of their potential energy as heat, which compares very poorly to a well-designed electric motor system which can use more than 90% of the energy it takes in. Combine that with low-to-no maintenance costs and it’s truly game over for ICE vehicles. Watching a performance EV quietly obliterate a roaring, belching ‘muscle car’ at the drag strip makes them look silly in comparison.

Internal combustion... for those who can't tell the difference between sound and speed.

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