U.S. consumers' EV perception compared to gas-powered vehicles 2021
As of April 2021, over 13 out of 20 U.S. consumers perceived the cost of electric vehicles to be worse than the cost of their gas-powered counterpart. By contrast, the perception of electric vehicles' effect on the environment of 67 percent of respondents was better than that of gas-powered vehicles. In 2020, light-duty electric vehicles had displaced 500 million gallons of gasoline in the United States.
