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EV Disappointment: One in five Californians wants to go back to internal combustion cars

Electric cars are presented as the almost perfect "Salvation" of the world and transport. Then one buys an EV car and is deeply disappointed. Are we sure it won't happen to so many people?

According to a new report from Business Insider, about 20% of all those in California who thought they could save the planet with electric cars are selling their electric vehicles back to gasoline vehicles. This choice seems to derive from the fact that recharging the car is a "Nuisance"

The report cites a new study published in the journal Nature Energy by University of California researchers Davis Scott Hardman and Gil Tal. They interviewed people in California who bought electric vehicles between 2012 and 2018. Of these, one in five went back to avoid having to face the long time it took to recharge their vehicles, and without even considering the issue of where the energy came from .

70% of those who made the switch did not have access to the special level 2 charging for cars at home, which can charge vehicles in about half the time compared to a normal level 1 socket. Level 1 from a standard household outlet provides approximately 120 volts of power. Level 2 goes to 240 volts, while Tesla's SuperChargers can offer 480 volts.

Without a level 2 socket, electric cars are useless, also because, using them, a Chevy Volt takes six hours to recharge the car for 450 km of range. with a level 1 socket it therefore takes half a day.

Two thirds of the respondents also said they do not use public charging stations, making many investments in this area unnecessary.

So it shouldn't be assumed that once a consumer buys an EV vehicle they will continue to own one. This factor would slow down the spread of this kind of mobility. In short, it is not certain that the transition to "Green" mobility is definitive: the contraindications are still too many.


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/delusione-ev-un-californiano-su-cinque-vuol-tornare-alle-auto-a-combustione-interna/ on Mon, 03 May 2021 08:00:33 +0000.