U.S. consumers' EV perception compared to gas-powered vehicles 2021

Published by
Mathilde Carlier,
Dec 16, 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.

Electric vehicle perception by consumers in the United States in 2021, compared to gas-powered vehicles

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Release date

June 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

April 20 to 29 2021

Number of respondents

13,749 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Panel survey

Supplementary notes

Respondents who did not give an answer are excluded from the data.

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