[Martinjlm]

Originally Posted by genxer

Martinjlm, how would you improve the survey you read? Is it public, linkable?

The incentive stats look like an f-u to everyone else's taxes, that the EV/hybrid camp was going to buy anyway.

-Were the Volt, other erEVs a separated camp? How aware are others of the tech?
-How did the different camps rank re-sale, insurance cost?
-Were electricity source, manufacturing impact, other social concerns included?
(to show overlaps, ex: CO2 warming narrative with fuel saving)
-Was personal preference/undesirability of the technology a choice?

The survey is NOT public but is available to subscribers to S&P Global Mobility data. I can’t answer the question on how I would improve it. The intent of the survey is to gather input from consumers who’ve recently bought EV/hybrid, are considering buying EV/hybrid, or who recently considered EV/hybrid but bought something else instead. The purpose is to understand for those who have bought or are considering EV, why? And for those who’ve considered and passed, why? And it does that well enough to suit my purposes as a consultant.

Resale was a question in the survey and was not a factor in reason for purchase or rejection. Insurance would have had to have been a write-in under “other”. Didn’t come up. Environmental Benefits as a category to include electricity sources, carbon / global warming et al was a factor and was #2 for purchasers and intenders. Technology was pretty much self explanatory in that if you didn’t like the technology you didn’t buy one and were probably not considering one. But for those who considered but didn’t buy a very small number said they didn’t understand or were unfamiliar with the technology.