{"id":8366,"date":"2021-10-07T09:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2024-07-08T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T11:03:09","slug":"australians-ready-to-embrace-electric-cars-and-want-their-pollies-to-back-the-switch-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/news\/australians-ready-to-embrace-electric-cars-and-want-their-pollies-to-back-the-switch-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians ready to embrace electric cars and want their pollies to back the switch: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8366\" class=\"elementor elementor-8366\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2697069 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2697069\" 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data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e51e456\" data-id=\"1e51e456\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f268683 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f268683\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: #000000;\">A majority of Australians are ready to get behind the wheel of an electric car and want their governments to back the switch, according to an exclusive new poll of over 3000 car buyers.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The poll was created by the Electric Vehicle Council and conducted via leading car sale and review website carsales.com.au during July.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Key findings from survey respondents include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">54 per cent would consider purchasing an electric vehicle as their next car<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">49 per cent see themselves driving an electric vehicle in 2030<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">40 per cent would be encouraged to purchase an electric vehicle if government subsidies were available to assist with the initial purchase cost<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">50 per cent would pay more for an equivalent electric vehicle compare to petrol\/diesel<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">92 per cent agreed public charging infrastructure was important in encouraging them to buy an electric vehicle<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">55 per cent indicated they would power their electric vehicle via solar panels<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The main factors encouraging purchase of an EV are running and maintenance costs, safety features, driving performance, and environmental footprint. The leading factors discouraging purchase are purchase costs compared to petrol and current accessibility of charging infrastructure.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAustralians are now well and truly ready to go electric,\u201d said Electric Vehicle Council chief executive Behyad Jafari.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;This survey shows we understand the personal benefits and we\u2019re also ready to start contributing to the societal advantages of the electric transition \u2013 like lower carbon emissions, increased fuel security, and cleaner air.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;What this survey also demonstrates is Australians are well out ahead of their government when it comes to electric vehicle attitudes.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Half the population now see themselves behind the wheel of an electric car by 2030. But they are frustrated by Australian policies that mean that many of the best affordable EV models don&#8217;t make it to our shores.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The politics on EVs has shifted massively in a short period of time, and politicians should ensure they don&#8217;t get stuck in the past. Australians now recognise the abundant advantages of driving an electric car. Their remaining hesitancy is about the support they are getting to make the switch.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;If the Australian Government starts introducing policies to encourage EV take up, similar to those in the UK, those policies will be met with overwhelming support from drivers and the broader electorate.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">carsales GM Customer Advocacy and Research, Deb Heaphy added: \u201cWe have conducted comprehensive EV studies this year and what we are seeing is great news for new EV-centric brands coming to Australia \u2013 consumers are not only open to influence but are ready to buy an EV.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOur recent survey shows that 54 per cent of respondents would consider purchasing an electric vehicle as their next car, and 51 per cent of those who currently own a petrol\/diesel vehicle would consider buying an EV as their next car purchase.\u201d<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority of Australians are ready to get behind the wheel of an electric car&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13051,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/13051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricvehiclecouncil.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}