A new survey has found that Americans’ distrust of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is increasingly pushing them away from conventional electric cars to hybrid alternatives. The Biden administration has invested tens of billions of dollars into developing the country’s burgeoning electric vehicle sector, but consumers aren’t buying into the EV dream as fast as policymakers and auto companies had hoped.
The result is a surge in the demand for hybrid vehicles among buyers who would like to reduce their tailpipe emissions but aren’t willing to switch to a pure electric car. The survey revealed that consumers’ interest in electric cars has seen a 14 % year-over-year drop as buyers continue to question the reliability of battery electric cars.
On the other hand, the Mobility Consumer Index from Ernst and Young has found that the share of American consumers considering a hybrid has increased by 2% while 21% of consumers in the country are considering the purchase of a hybrid. The share of Americans interested in replacing their fossil fuel-powered cars with BEVs has also dropped from 48% in 2023 to 34%, according to a survey by EY Americans Automotive.
EY head Steven Patton says this is the first time electric vehicle demand has fallen since 2020. According to Patton, the decrease in electric vehicle demand was partly caused by limited consumer education regarding the EV maintenance requirements compared to ICE vehicles as well as their long-term value. Electric vehicles are more expensive to purchase, but they are cheaper than fossil fuel cars to maintain and “fuel.”
Both established automakers and EV startups such as Tesla have experienced reduced sales, thanks to waning consumer demand for pure EVs since late last year. As a result, carmakers such as Toyota Motor Co. are now turning to hybrids to make up for the revenue shortfalls their electric-vehicle divisions have been experiencing. These cars are becoming incredibly popular among American consumers because they offer the environmental benefits of electrification without forcing drivers to adapt to a fully electric car.
Unlike BEVs, hybrids aren’t fully electrified and rely on both a combustion engine and electric drivetrain for power. Combining a combustion engine and an electric drivetrain may not be as environmentally beneficial as eliminating fossil fuels from the equation, but it alleviates one of the key issues hindering mass electric vehicle adoption: range anxiety.
Hybrids essentially have infinite range as their internal batteries are charged by the combustion engine and/or regenerative braking. This means that hybrid drivers aren’t tied to America’s notoriously unreliable network of public EV chargers, allowing them to operate their cars without ever having to worry about being stranded after their battery runs out of power.
The dropping demand for electric vehicles now gives startups such as VinFast Auto Ltd. (NASDAQ: VFS) an urgent need to come up with unique ways to make their products appeal to their target customers.
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