__Highlights:__

- Price, range, and poor charging infrastructure were the three top reasons people said they wouldn’t buy an EV

- 48 percent said EVs were too expensive; 44 percent said they were worried about range; 36 percent said they were worried about where to charge it

- 66 percent of shoppers said local, state, and federal agencies should offer more incentives 

- 28 percent of respondents said they wouldn’t be willing to pay any more for an EV over its gas equivalent

- 21 percent said the current high cost of gas wasn’t pushing them to consider an EV more than it had previously

- If shoppers were to consider an EV, midsize crossovers and pickup trucks are the most popular body type

- Survey was conducted between April 11 and June 30; 1,982 current shoppers on Autolist.com participated

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__Full Story:__
Too expensive, not enough range, no place to charge them — these are the three top reasons Americans are avoiding electric vehicles, according to the latest survey from [Autolist.com](https://www.autolist.com). 

Autolist’s annual Electric Vehicle Survey polled nearly 2,000 consumers in April through June 2022 to gauge their interest in and opinions on all things EVs. The results reveal that anxieties about electric vehicles haven’t changed much since Autolist first began the poll in 2019, despite many new — and cheaper — EVs hitting the market since then. 

What’s more, not even historically high gas prices in recent months have been enough to tip shoppers into considering an EV, Autolist found. 

“Even though we’re seeing record high prices for new and used gas cars right now, many consumers still don’t see EVs as a completely viable alternative yet,” said Corey Lydstone, founder and CEO of Autolist, a CarGurus company. “But there are some encouraging signs that this could be set to change in the near future.”

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__Key Concerns About EVs:__
Autolist’s 2022 survey asked current car shoppers to choose the top three reasons they weren’t considering an EV. 

The most common answers were as follows: 

- 48 percent said EVs were too expensive to buy or lease
- 44 percent said they were worried about EVs’ range on a single charge
- 36 percent said that there wasn’t local charging infrastructure to support them using an electric vehicle

![Slide 1 Wouldnt Buy](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/RHHPjDSp2w4FvNp5eRj8Y/46de3b44c53c2374d8bc3335873796d7/Slide_1_Wouldnt_Buy.jpg)

“These are the same top three concerns that we saw in 2019 and again in 2021,” said Lydstone. “While sales of EVs are slowly improving as more compelling models hit the market, consumers’ impressions of electric vehicles aren’t improving.”

What’s more, Autolist’s survey actually found that even more people were concerned about EVs’ prices in 2022 than were worried about them in 2019. 

Those earlier, pre-pandemic poll results showed 42 percent of consumers said pricing was a key hurdle (versus 48 percent in 2022), making pricing the second biggest concern in the 2019 poll; an EV’s range was the top concern then. 

The news gets worse when you look at a key cost in any EV: its batteries. 

After years of battery prices declining — thus pulling down the cost of electric vehicles — those prices have started rising again. Many industry analysts are expecting them to continue to increase for the next several years as global demand for the raw materials to make batteries for all types of uses has surged.

“Then you add to that international sanctions against Russia, supply chain disruptions, inflation, and investor speculation, and you have the perfect recipe for the price of batteries — and the EVs they’re powering — to keep increasing for the foreseeable future,” Lydstone said. 

These increased costs for the makers of EVs are already being passed down to consumers as automakers scramble to keep their EVs profitable — a tough challenge even before battery supply tightened up.

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__Upfront Costs__

Autolist also found that many consumers were unwilling to pay a premium for an electric vehicle versus its gas equivalent. 

When asked how much more they would be willing to spend on a vehicle for it to be electric or for a similar electric version to a gas model they were considering, 28 percent of people said they wouldn’t spend any extra money. 

![Slide 2 premium over gas](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/3ECmynL9rKxbFcDCewTSmc/55b4c558a92b4fc1c0e016fb8af4d552/Slide_2_premium_over_gas.jpg)

Another 22 percent were unsure; another nine percent said between $500 and $1,000. 

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__It's Not About the Gas__

Don’t look to historically high gas prices to start pushing people into EVs. 

Autolist’s survey asked people what price a gallon of gas would have to hit in order for them to seriously consider an EV for their next vehicle. 

![Slide 3 gas prices](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/4g1Q6qTN0CqB1mxmtvyKSs/fdd99fb4b678cadb2f55319ae9bae888/Slide_3_gas_prices.jpg)

The most common answer — with 21 percent of respondents choosing it — was “It’s not about the price of gas; I wouldn’t buy an EV for other reasons.” 

Another 15 percent said they were unsure. 

The most popular dollar figure? 12 percent said if gas hit $6 a gallon, they’d likely go electric. 

(As of this writing, the national average is $4.30 per gallon, while California’s average is $5.69 per gallon, [according to AAA](https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=US)). 

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__Subsidy Support__

Autolist’s poll found significant support for government incentives at the federal, state, and local level to help boost EV adoption and offset some of their higher costs. 

![Slide 4 incentives](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/5CuKvcoSVrWjkgtnuXWibz/c4cc755b627addeff40d8bf0ab945e61/Slide_4_incentives.jpg)

Two-thirds of respondents (66 percent) said they supported things like tax incentives, rebates, subsidized public charging, and other perks to encourage EV adoption. 

19 percent said they were against the idea; the final 16 percent said they were unsure. 

Shoppers’ views were more mixed when it came to the current cap the federal government puts on the number of EVs from a single manufacturer that are eligible for a tax rebate (currently set at 200,000). Automakers like Tesla, GM, and most recently Toyota have this limit, making their EVs and PHEVs ineligible for federal rebates. 

Just 24 percent of respondents said they supported the cap; that number is down slightly from Autolist’s 2019 EV survey when 27 percent supported the cap. 

42 percent of shoppers were against the cap; the final 34 percent were unsure.

Those federal rebates can have a significant impact on what consumers pay out of pocket for an EV.

![2023 bZ4X Limited AWD SupersonicRed 010 (1)](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/3FFZnqAYBLHwlcra0XevXm/b7fb15c14e4d2383b38eb639d23cdd36/2023_bZ4X_Limited_AWD_SupersonicRed_010__1_.jpg)

Toyota’s new bZ4X (above) and the Subaru Solterra (below) are a clear example of this. While they’re largely the same vehicle, the AWD Solterra comes in roughly $6,500 cheaper than the AWD Toyota if one factors in the full $7,500 federal rebate that the Subaru is eligible for but which the Toyota isn’t.

“That’s a huge price delta that could easily tip someone into the Subaru but not the Toyota,” Lydstone said. “It could be the difference between someone going electric and someone sticking with a cheaper gas model.”

![D55 9102 (1)](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/5EuDZc7DJGpoosBcmk5cd1/106156b87650066ee26a3eb380a80eb8/D55_9102__1_.jpg)

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__So What's the Good News for EV Fans?__

Autolist found that the type of EV people are most interested in has evolved since 2019. Back then and again in 2022, the most popular body style for an EV was midsize crossovers. This makes sense as they’re the most popular body style of vehicle on the market today for any powertrain type.

But notably, pickup trucks jumped up to the second-most popular body style for an EV in 2022, with 16 percent choosing them; in 2019, pickups ranked fourth with 13 percent of respondents’ vote.

![Slide 5 body style](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/6nN3UAs2wK4zIGmQhAVuiy/4bbda9aaaad926c467134b824ea5d7af/Slide_5_body_style.jpg)

In that time, electric trucks went from a “what-if” to a reality in the marketplace. With the Ford F-150 Lightning just around the corner, plus the release of the Rivian R1T, the announcement of Chevy’s Silverado EV, Ram’s 1500 electric truck promised for 2024, and Toyota’s electric Tacoma thought to arrive in 2025, people are warming up to the idea that their next truck could be electric. 

The impacts could be significant. 

“The arrival of mainstream electric pickups to the marketplace could be a huge turning point for EVs in the US,” Lydstone said. “These trucks have the potential to convince a large group of buyers to go electric who otherwise may never have considered an EV.”

Autolist found some other encouraging signs for the growth of EVs in the industry. 

For one, the number of respondents who actually owned an EV increased — albeit marginally. In the 2019 survey, six percent of shoppers polled said they owned an electric vehicle; by 2022, that number had increased to eight percent. 

Also noteworthy in Autolist’s survey was how people said they would use an EV. 

![Slide 6 how household would use](https://www.autolist.com/6tuem73u73an/6vWFIjpTNV7W4SCp8dWGq5/d01f276af5b964c648d09b10da894c47/Slide_6_how_household_would_use.jpg)

59 percent of respondents said they would use their EV as the primary vehicle in their household. 

19 percent said it would be a secondary vehicle; 15 percent were unsure; seven percent said they would use it as an extra or third vehicle. 

“The fact that so many people would use their EV as their main car tells us that people are into the idea of an EV in their household,” Lydstone said. “It’s just a matter of overcoming the differences people see between EVs and gas vehicles.”


An electric vehicle's range is now the single biggest purchase consideration for consumers thinking of switching to EVs, according to Autolist.com's latest poll. But what else matters? Read on to find out. 

Survey: Price and Range, Not Gas Prices, Dominate Worries About EVs

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