"For people who haven't yet decided to switch, an under-appreciated fact is just how much more efficient an electric powertrain is compared to one that burns liquid petroleum. Ford's experiment putting an electric powertrain into its best-selling F-150 pickup truck might have turned sour, but consider the following: The V6 truck needs more than three times as much energy to travel 300 miles as the one you plug into a wall, when you consider a gallon of gasoline contains 33.7 kWh of energy."
"Meanwhile, range and charging times remain the foremost concerns among car buyers when discussing EVs, along with the cost premium. Some other fears are ill-founded, however. Thirty-eight percent said they were concerned about the cost of eventually replacing an EV's battery. But EV batteries are proving more durable on the road than many early adopters once believed. There's little evidence that EVs will require costly battery replacements with any more frequency than older cars require new engines,"
Reliable workplace charging can substitute for home charging, but 77 percent of US car buyers prefer charging at home. Electric powertrains are far more energy efficient than gasoline engines; a V6 truck requires more than three times the energy to travel 300 miles compared with an electric equivalent when a gallon of gasoline is 33.7 kWh. Fifty-two percent cite lower fuel costs and 38 percent cite environmental concern as reasons to choose EVs. Price interest centers between $20,000 and $49,999. Range, charging times, and battery-cost worries persist, but batteries are proving durable and show little evidence of requiring replacements more often than older cars need new engines.
Read at Ars Technica
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