According to a new British survey, the country's petrol car owners know very little about electric cars. 23 percent of them answered all questions incorrectly.
In a new British survey , 90 percent of petrol car owners could correctly answer five or fewer questions about electric cars.
The survey was commissioned by the NGO Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) and carried out by the analysis company YouGov.
57 percent only answered two out of ten questions correctly. And 23 percent answered everything incorrectly, according to the accompanying report.
The survey only looked at owners of petrol cars and their knowledge of electric cars. The result therefore does not say anything about what electric car owners know about electric cars. Or whether these know more than petrol car owners.
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– All the myths about electric cars lead fossil car owners astray. Many people have really poor knowledge about electric cars.
– The car industry needs to take misinformation seriously, and the new government also has a job to do, says Colin Walker from ECIU.
The survey also showed that the fewer questions the petrol car owners could answer correctly, the less they wanted to buy an electric car.
But according to the ECIU, the investigation also shows the following:
- … that 41 percent of British petrol car owners believe that electric cars catch fire more easily than petrol cars
- … that 62 percent believe that it is more expensive to own an electric car than a petrol car
- … that 35 percent believe that the electric car emits more CO2 than the petrol car throughout its lifetime
- … that 59 percent believe that England's electricity grid will not be able to cope with the load from electric cars.
The question then is whether it is the car industry's responsibility at all that motorists may – perhaps do not – know enough about electric cars. There are at least some indications that many car brands are not quite as fussed about electric cars anymore.
An ever-increasing number of car brands have recently announced that you cannot do without the internal combustion engine after all. Most recently, Volvo has broken the brand's ceiling to only build electric cars in the middle. The bosses have since called it 'an easy decision'.
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