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http://www.designnews.com/author.asp...&doc_id=207523

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The poll results, published in May, revealed that many Americans still aren’t interested in pure electric cars. The poll asked a sample of 1,024 adults a simple question: “How high do you think gas prices would have to rise before you would buy an electric car that you could only drive for a limited number of miles at one time?”

Fifty-seven percent of those adults said they would not buy an electric car, no matter the price of gasoline. What’s particularly interesting about the results, though, is the fact that the pollsters broke down the answers by gasoline price and found that as the prices rose, fewer Americans would be willing to buy an electric car. With a gasoline price of under $6 per gallon, for example, 12 percent said they would consider an EV. After that, the percentages dropped: from $6 to $7.99, 10 percent; from $8 to $10, 9 percent; and above $10 a gallon, just 3 percent.

Shouldn’t we expect it to be the other way around? If the criterion were the price of gasoline, shouldn’t more Americans say, “Well, if gas hits 10 bucks a gallon, I’ll consider going electric.”
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But the problem isn’t the article. And it isn’t the poll. The critical passage in the Gallup survey is this: "…you could only drive for a limited number of miles at one time."

The results tell us that when many Americans see that phrase, they balk. Sure, many have heard the statistics that say 75 percent of Americans drive 40 miles a day or less. And many know that approximately 90 percent of all driving is within the range of EVs.
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Range anxiety is real. It is one reason why the Jaguar prototype using miniature turbines still piques my interest . . . and it is a hot car too!

Bob Wilson