The study also showed EV buyers had more faith in startups, helpful for companies like Fisker, above, Rivian, Lucid and more.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nOther studies have cited a variety of additional reasons why motorists say they\u2019re buying EVs, including design, roomier interiors \u2014 and, in some communities, as a way to foster an image of being hip and cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buyers open to new brands<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In a summary, Polestar said the new study found that EV buyers also \u201care more open to new brands and startups\u201d than when purchasing conventional vehicles. That, if accurate, should be good news to Polestar \u2014 as well as competing EV-only entrants like Tesla, Lucid and Rivian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 46% of the respondents said they are confident in such new EV brands, including 57% of millennials, but just 28% of Boomers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Polestar said it turned to an unnamed third-party research firm to pull together the study. It was “fielded earlier this year with more than 5,000 electric and internal combustion drivers across all 50 U.S. states. The survey questioned drivers on the state of electric car acceptance, charging infrastructure, and the perception of electric car brands when purchasing a vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While EV proponents are quick to tout the environmental advantages of switching to electric propulsion, but 55% of buyers reported they bought their vehicles for the advanced tech, not green nature. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3332,7,8,5,1608,10,1347,9],"tags":[1325,7102,7103,4613,7104],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229217,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229212\/revisions\/229217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229212"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=229212"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=229212"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=229212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}