{"id":87785,"date":"2024-06-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87785"},"modified":"2024-06-24T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:23:59","slug":"that-spark-of-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87785","title":{"rendered":"That Spark Of Remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Electric Vehicle (EV) owners are not especially satisfied<\/a> customers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The consulting firm surveyed<\/a> consumers in multiple countries: the U.S., China, Germany, Norway, Australia, France, Italy, Japan and Brazil. Between all of those countries, 29% of electric car owners want to return to driving internal combustion cars, with 46% of surveyed American electric car owners wanting to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This surprised the consulting firm, cutting against received wisdom about people\u2019s switch to electric.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But what’s not to like about a vehicle that costs more per unit of performance than a gas car, is the subject of arbitrary mandates notwithstanding the fact that the power grid can’t handle them, and is completely unsuitable for the type of long-distance driving that many Americans between the Mississippi River and the Sierra Madre do fairly routinely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among the owners surveyed who are planning to switch back, 35% cited the lack of charging infrastructure, 34% said the costs were too high, 32% said planning long driving trips was too difficult, 24% said they could not currently charge at home, 21% said worrying about charging was too stressful and 13% said they did not enjoy how the cars felt while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 9% of drivers across all countries surveyed said that current charging infrastructure was sufficient to meet their needs. While some electric car drivers want to switch back, 38% of internal combustion car drivers surveyed said they are considering buying a battery-powered or plug-in hybrid electric car as their next vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I know when I was considering renting a car for a significant drive, I looked at the charging network and ended up opting for a hybrid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I forgot to mention the trip was in Norway – the most EV-friendly country in the world. And while you could find charging stations up in the mountains of rural Tr\u00f8ndelag, it looked like I’d be sitting and charging a loooong time to get where I needed to go. I went with a hybrid – and I loved it (when gas is $9 a gallon, regenerative braking is a fine thing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as I predicted 15 years ago, I’m counting the hours until the market overrides the government mandates and chooses hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electric Vehicle (EV) owners are not especially satisfied customers: The consulting firm surveyed consumers in multiple countries: the U.S., China, Germany, Norway, Australia, France, Italy, Japan and Brazil. Between all of those countries, 29% of electric car owners want to return to driving internal combustion cars, with 46% of surveyed American electric car owners wanting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87787,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87785\/revisions\/87787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}