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Originally Posted by Car-Addicted
What China’s EV buyers’ remorse means for the world
Apr 12, 2024
China is the most important country in the world when it comes to the future of electric vehicles: It accounts for about 60% of all global EV sales, its market for EVs is surging, and it is home to the planet’s biggest EV manufacturer.
Alongside that remarkable growth, however, has been frustration: The survey from McKinsey China pegged battery EV buyers’ “regret rate” as surging from 3% in 2022 to 22% last year, which its report blamed largely on limited charging infrastructure.
Early adopters of EVs were often more affluent, curious, and well-researched on the topic. But as the market has ballooned, consumers quickly shifted from trailblazers to more everyday users, who may be less prepared for challenges associated with EVs, he said.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/1...-for-the-world
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Anecdotal data point, but there's definitely EV regret here in the affluent D.C. suburbs.
When they first came out, I started to see the Ford Mach-E just about everywhere. There were TONS of them on the road almost overnight, and people were buying them like crazy. Now I hardly see a single one. The big issue here is lack of infrastructure for anything other than Tesla's. Just for curiosity's sake I checked reviews for some of the other non-Tesla public charging stations in the area, and most of them don't work at all, and are constantly broken and needing to be repaired. So unless you're home charging, you're screwed. I'm sure Ford quality and recalls and software issues didn't help, but people very clearly and quickly unloaded these things over a year or so. Plenty of Tesla's here, though.
I have no problems with EV's, but you have to have the infrastructure to support them, and nobody wants a vehicle that's going to blow up in your face, metaphorically or for real.