The verdict is in. A significant share of Americans who own an electric vehicle have buyer’s remorse, according to a 2024 poll.
McKinsey & Co.’s Mobility Consumer Pulse before 2025 began, found that 46% of EV owners in the U.S. said they were “very” likely to switch back to owning a gas-powered vehicle in their next purchase.
The high percentage of Americans who want to make a switch even surprised the consulting firm.
“I didn’t expect that,” the head of McKinsey’s Center for Future Mobility, Philipp Kampshoff, told Automotive News. “I thought, ‘Once an EV buyer, always an EV buyer.'”
In the poll of nearly 37,000 consumers worldwide, Australia was the only country with a greater percentage, 49%, of EV owners than the U.S. who said they were ready to return to owning an internal combustion engine.
The other countries included in the survey were Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Norway. Across all countries surveyed, the average share of respondents who want to ditch their EVs was 29%.
The biggest reasons EV owners cited for wanting to return to owning a gas-powered vehicle was:
● the lack of available charging infrastructure (35%);
● the total cost of owning an EV was too high (34%).
● Nearly 1 in 3, (32%), said their driving patterns on long-distance trips were affected too much due to having an EV.
McKinsey found that consumers’ satisfaction globally with charging availability has improved some since 2023’s survey but noted it “still has a long way to go.”
Of the EV owners across all countries, 11% said the infrastructure where they live is well set up in terms of charge points, however:
● 40% said there were not enough chargers along highways and main roads,
● 38% said there were not enough chargers in close proximity to them.
The findings come years into the Biden administration’s push for U.S. consumers and automakers to embrace EVs and reinforce other recent polling that indicates a major chunk of Americans are still not sold on going all-electric.
In April 2023, during a hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee, US Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm endorsed the Biden-Harris administration’s proposal to mandate an all-electric vehicle fleet for the military by 2030.
In June 2024, even the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago found nearly half of Americans (47%) said they are not likely to purchase an EV for their next vehicle.
Seventy-five percent of those surveyed in the June 2024 poll cited too few charging stations as a big reason they would not purchase an EV, and 70% said EVs take too long to charge. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said they prefer gas-powered cars.
To further Biden’s EV agenda, Democrats passed infrastructure legislation in 2021 that committed billions of taxpayer dollars to building a half million charging stations in the U.S. by the end of the decade.
But by three years into that, only seven federally funded chargers were built, causing much condemnation by consumers on both sides of the political aisle.
Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at the time that only 27 states had issued commercial requests to build charging stations and that she expected about 1,000 EV-charging stations in public places to be operational by the end of 2024.
“These are the hardest ones to do,” Granholm said, adding that some areas slated for charging stations don’t have electricity yet.
Meanwhile ID Tech Research revealed the highest percentage of times EV catch fire are when they are parked (33%), charging (26%) and while driving (17%).
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Back in the era before WWI there were electric cars, but people only used them for running around town, and I believe you could charge them at home. I am surprised at the number of people who got sold on these things we have now. They’ve done us all a favor, being the guinea pigs.
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The founder of Green Pasture (our primary sponsor) was kind enough to send me a book explain that history. Fascinating.
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No EV for this old fart. Momo and me were in snowy Colorado Spring last week for an 8 day dose of liberalism from her daughter and husband. Sitting around the firepit one evening, covered in snow and drinking Irish Whiskey, they announced they were buying an electric pickup truck. Our gas powered Honda Ridgeline sat in their driveway, covered in snow. Joe goes to Terlingua every year to compete in the chili cookoff. He was concerned that an EV might not make it, and there may not be chargers in the Big Bend desert. I told him not to worry, we passed two Sonic Drive Inns in New Mexico and each one had 8 Tesla charging stations. He felt better and now they are buying one. I guess I should tell him I made that crap up.
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Ha!!! I am roaring. Last time I was in Fort Stockton there was a 4 hour wait in line to charge EVs up. A year later I am wondering if they have added more charging stations.
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Beats me. We do watch for them since the other daughter and family have an EV too. Not many around.
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It was the whiskey. And too much liberalism in one shot.
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The reason why I am pro-oil, pro-gas, pro-coal, pro-logging, pro-farming, pro-ranching, etc., is that the Lord wants us to subdue the earth (Genesis 1:28). Gas-powered vehicles help us subdue the earth. Oil companies subdue the earth. Gas companies subdue the earth. Coal companies subdue the earth. They give us much needed carbon emissions that help vegetation grow all over the earth. Without vegetation, we die.
Genesis 1:28: “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and SUBDUE it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Strong’s Concordance – King James Version
Genesis 1: 28: “And God 430 blessed 1288 them, and God 430 said 559unto them, Be fruitful 6509, and multiply 7235, and replenish 4390 the earth 776, and SUBDUE it 3533: and have dominion 7287 over the fish1710 of the sea 3220, and over the fowl 5775 of the air 8064, and over every living thing 2416 that moveth 7430 upon the earth 776.”
SUBDUE transliteration: KABASH (Hebrew–pronounced “ka-vash”) verb
1) to subject, subdue, force, keep under, bring into bondage
a) (Qal)
1) to bring into bondage, make subservient
2) to subdue, force, violate
3) to subdue, dominate, tread down
b) (Niphal) to be subdued
c) (Piel) to subdue
d) (Hiphil) to bring into bondage
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In 2022, there was a couple in an ev going from DC to Davis, WV. Their car ran out of charge on an access road to a coal mine in Tucker County WV. They didn’t take into account how rise in elevation can reduce range. The car was all plastic so it couldn’t be towed. Some coal miners pushed the car to the guard station where it could be charge.
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What absolute irony, that coal miners, in the end, had to push the useless EV.
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End result of subdue: to tame it and make it a habitable home: a domain (see above, “dominion”) On Earth as it is in Heaven. Leftist policies only destroy the Earth and make it unhabitable. “In the beginning…the Earth was without form and void…” We’re supposed to make it a good place to dwell, and for Him to dwell with us. It’s our charge from the beginning. And He is the source of the strength to do it; without Him we can do nothing. Love your comment.
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Amen
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EV’s, eyeroll, yeah right. I love that the polar vortex finally made it’s entrance this winter here in Canada and decides to stay longer than normal. I’ve seen maybe a couple of times chargers in use. A neighbour up the road had a car EV with a plugin at the home and a gas powered truck. Well after about 2 years the truck stayed and the EV and charging unit are gone. Look at all the contamination in California after the wildfires with burnt EV’s. One of the strictess states regarding environmental laws. Now the most contaminated. Unfortunate for the victims of the fires. My heart is still sadden by the loss and suffering.
BUT in Canada Castro’s offspring is still forcing his mandate of all EV’s by 2035 for Canada. Yeah, well guess I’ll be going by way of the Amish horse and buggy or tractor. Secretly between you and me. I loved it when Trump on a video jumbo tron addressed the WEF that the green energy deal is dead. Trudeau was shaking and seething when he was interviewed after that announcement. Gotta love it.
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Yes, that Jumbo Tron moment was a good one. Thank you.
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