re: Anyone consider buying an electric vehicle when they were previously averse to it?

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why would someone have an aversion to an EV?

its just a different technology

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Hell there are still people who think man has only been around what, 6, 8000 years? Some still believe the earth is flat. Most will tell you there is an entity in the sky where good people go when they die and another under the dirt where bad people go when they die. Being averse to new technology is miniscule in scale compared to those levels of ignorance....

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The OT was big mad about EVs until Elon went MAGA, then they started buying them. It was weird.

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The same is true of the left....they loved EVs until Musk became another Trump fan boy.

I will bet, however, that about 95% of the abortion called the Cybertruck have been sold since Musk became a Trump Fan Boy to similarly afflicted individuals who HATED evs prior to that change of heart. I doubt many on the left went out and bought a F250 in a mood of defiance....

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EV makes sense as a work commuter, doesn't make sense as the family SUV you take on trips at this time

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This my take as well however I will add that it is equally nonsensical for a woman who weighs 100 pounds to be driving a F250 Diesel pickup to fetch Johnny from school and procure the groceries for the family. Americans do not tend toward practical decisions when it comes to buying automobiles. I would bet fully half of all pickup trucks on the road at any given time have never had a trailer attached to the receiver hitch...and probably 75% of those which have have only done so a handful of times.

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How many trips does a family make? Too many people acting like the middle of the bell curve drive 300+ miles a day

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For most families it would be far cheaper to drive an EV daily and to do so a couple of times a year to a car rental agency to pick up an SUV or mini-van for vacation or even a pickup to haul something or tow a trailer. Renting a car is a pretty cheap undertaking. Its far cheaper than maintaining a 3/4 ton 4 WD pickup that is used to perform the tasks that a golf cart could manage....

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Now that I’m getting older, I’m considering a self driving car

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My wife and I are building a retirement home on a local lake and one of the deciding factors when we bought the lot was proximity to health care. My father lived with us at the time and he had doctor appointments a couple of times a week. It was a lot given that he did not drive at all. We bought in a county that provides subsidized transportation for seniors for that very reason. When I bought my Corolla and realized how close we are to fully self driving cars being a reality in a meaningful way we have begun seriously considering buying a lot further out so we can have more room....it is going to be game changing. Imagine commuting to work while reading or even napping???? Seriously, with the way idiots drive and watch tik tok videos today is anyone still in doubt we wont be better off with machines doing the driving????

I seriously think we will soon see a day when owning a car is not needed...simply order a self driving one to the door step, hop inside and when you get to your destination you and it get on with your lives. It would be very liberating if you consider it in those terms....

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Many/most plug in hybrids don’t also have regenerative systems. If yours does, then that’s different

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That’s my biggest gripe with my Lexus hybrid. I’d love regenerative braking to help slow that tank.

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My biggest concern is that over 60% of current EV owners say they won't buy electric next time.


That's interesting, the data I've seen suggests in excess of 90% would not go back to an ICE car. Maybe it was brand specific (like Tesla) but it was a JD Power deal, if I recall.

I have a 23 Tesla Model S. Because of FSD, we rarely take out ICE SUV when we are on a road trip. Life changing.

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re-sell values seem too suggest that current owners are pretty damned satisfied or they'd be getting rid of them used at a faster pace and for less money. Every metric you can find suggests current owners tend to be more satisfied, often by a wide margin, than owners of ICE vehicles.

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The problem with EVs is that it only makes sense for a small portion of the population

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You actually have that backwards, the average person in the US drives around 300 miles a WEEK. It is the outliers for whom an EV wouldn't fit into their lives as well or better than an EV. We all like to be the outlier when we are trying to justify a choice we don't really want to accept the fact our position is illogical.

It reminds me of a discussion on a forestry forum about a year ago when someone was trying to decide what bar length to get on a saw. He had decided he wanted a 36" bar. He was ask did he really have any trees large enough to warrant a 36" bar. His reply was well I have this one tree and while I don't plan to cut it down, I will have it if I need it. As the discussion went on he added that he wouldn't have to bend down to delimb and chains would last longer between sharpenings. At the end, everyone threw up their hands because he didn't really want reasonable advice he was just looking for a way to justify a purchase when he just could have said I want more saw than I will ever need and the average male-dominated forum would just nod in approval.

I don't really want an EV made today, at least none as cheap as or cheaper than my current daily driver, but I accept they are not logical utilitarian reasons. An EV would likely be easier to live with for me. I just admit my reasons for keeping ICE vehicles aren't based is untility.

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You are welcome to do as you please, but these examples are a very different use case than personal use vehicles that are mostly used for commuting.

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When the technology advances enough that those outfits feel like they can trust electric vehicles, then to me the tech will be ready for primetime AND the power grid will be robust enough to handle all of the charging.

Have two Teslas. Never going back to ICE. Idgaf about politics or the environment.