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Old 05-01-2021, 01:04 PM   #1 (permalink)
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1 in 5 EV owners ditches electric, goes back to burning dead dinosaurs - California study




(I guess I'm part of the "abandon ship!" group - drove the ForkenSwift for 4 or 5 years but didn't replace it.)


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According to a study of 4000+ EV owners in California between 2012-2018, about 1 in 5 of them either planned to or did go back to internal combustion.


Those who were switching away from EV's...


Quote:
- Depended on them for their only means of transportation—so essentially people who only had one car


- People who lived in places where home charging was difficult also abandoned electric vehicles at higher rates


- Generally younger, were more likely to rent their living spaces and were less likely to live in a standalone house.



- Women also switched back to gas-powered vehicles at higher rates than men, although the paper offered no concrete suggestion as to why that might be.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/40407/...red-cars-study

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