Be Honest: What's "Stopping" You from Buying an EV

For me, the deal breaker is the amount of time it takes to get back to full charge. If I'm on a road trip, I can fill up with gas in about 5 minutes and get back on the road. And gas stations have enough pumps that you rarely have to wait your turn. So I guess secondary reason would be the number of available chargers at any given station.

Alternatively, if you had a very large range (750+ mi), then the recharge speed is not an issue.

The other downsides are not that big of a deal for me.

Nothing, except I buy cars once every 10 years. I live in a warm climate, could charge at home, and have a reasonable commute. I would like a better interior than Tesla offers and a dealer to service it, but there are alternatives.

Our EV policy bothers me, but that is because I am an economist. The CO2 gains may be slight depending upon some assumptions.

Worse, if you subsidize any kind of energy use (EV subsidies and subsidies to manufacturers), you get more of it.

Subsidizing somebody to use an electric car is a subsidy to consume energy, period—to drive more, to live in a bigger house, to crank the air conditioning higher. The electricity to charge the car has to come from somewhere. The minerals for the battery don’t spring from the ground. If government pays you to use less fossil fuel, it’s paying someone else to use more.

I have a car (3 actually). It works. It's paid for.

I don’t particularly care about the electrical aspect of it though it is superior on environmental friendliness than gas and that’s nice, but I’d like to get a Tesla and rely a bit on its self driving on highways though I’m still unsure how much value its current self driving will add for me.

I guess i'll wait for the Solid State EV cars from Japan which will have the same interchangeable, tires, wheels, under the hood, drivetrain and electronic motor parts across their national manufacturers and foreign licensees.

I'm not looking forward to paying my state's anticipated DMV EV Road Wear Assessment fees. It promises to heavily tax Big Rigs, Box Trucks, Delivery Vans, SUVs, RVs, Trucks, Camping trailers, 5th Wheels, based on AI predicted HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE WEAR AND TEAR.

The fact that I can't go on any trip without finding a charging station and then sitting for hours to get a full charge vs 5 minutes to fill a tank. And way more expensive that an internal combustion engine. Plus their range sucks when it's hot or cold.

Have had a small EV for 4 years and it works for the normal commuting and trips up to 200 miles. it costs next to nothing to operate and I got it used for the same price of a IC car. In 4 years, it almost did not depreciate, so if I sell it now, I lost less than 10% of its value, which is nice.
For longer trips I generally rent, but this has happened only a couple of times. I am looking to buy another, but the problem is that the production is moving towards gigantic trucks and SUVs that do not make any sense for commuting, which is where the EVs really shine. It is weird, but probably SUVs is where car companies actually make money in the US.

Yes. Profit margins are much, much, much higher for SUVs and large trucks than they are for sedans. I'm not sure about EV trucks and SUVs, but I imagine it's similar.

I was having a conversation with a friend the other day and he asked "Why don't Honda and Toyota have EVs?" I replied that I didn't know, but I suspect its rooted in their Japanese "tradition" of being more methodical and not jumping into trends and not wanting to release something until the technology is right and they can do so at a cost point that is beneficial to them and their consumers.

YOU shouldn’t get a Kia or Hyundai. car theft is out of control in Baltimore

Yeah, if the dumb government would just stop building roads, we wouldn't have to worry about all these horrible EVs driving around.

The charging infrastructure is what is keeping me away. I'd be fine with it for a second car that is only used around town. But for road trips, I need to replace a 2004 SUV and while I like the idea of an EV, i'm leaning towards a hybrid before they go away for good.

Good EVs are entirely too expensive (no, tesla is NOT a good EV anymore). They're also way too heavy to handle worth a crap.

The one I'm buying hasn't been built yet, it's still in Kickstarter stage or whatever.

Price.

If little baby Jesus ment us to have elecrick cars he wouldnta killt off all them dinosours and gave us drillin rigs to put gas in our doolies.

get a hybrid.....problem solved.

Right now I like not having a car payment, but that is stopping me from buying any car.

I am open to the idea. I live in Colorado and the range and confidence of charging stations is something I am concerned about. I do long trips (think across southern Utah or up to Yellowstone) and like the convenience and piece of mind of a gas car. I think if I lived east of the Mississippi there would be a good chance of getting one.

There is also the issue of lack of overnight charging where I currently am.

EVs don't meet my criteria for an electric car yet. My criteria are...

1. I only buy used with a price point of less than $10,000 (I've done this for 50 years. My most recent three vehicles cost $7,300, $6,700, and $6,400.)

2. Recharging must be available along my normal driving route... no detours. (The closest current station would require a 5 minute detour. The second closest would be a 20 minute detour. My neighborhood gas station is literally right on one corner I drive by when I leave home.)

3. Recharging must take less than 5 minutes (Currently not possible.) and must be under a roof to protect from the rain and sun.

4. Battery must be replaceable for less than $2,000, including installation. (Currently, not posssible.)

5. Home recharging must require no additional equipment and must take no more than one minute to connect. (Since I don't have a garage, I would have to drag a cord from the house in the dark, rain, or snow to the car and reverse the steps once the car is charged.)

You should drive an EV. I rented one a few months ago. It was a fun drive. It accelerated better than any gas car you can buy. 200 miles is well within the range of EVs.