As the Biden administration pushes for more electric vehicle sales, the United States still lags behind most other countries, Yahoo Finance reports.
According to a recent survey by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, only two in every 10 Americans are “very likely” to purchase an EV.
In comparison, a recent EIB climate survey shows that two-thirds of Europeans are likely to choose an EV for their next vehicle, with 86% of new car sales in Norway being EVs according to statistics from Canary Media. In Iceland, EVs are 72% of new car sales.
China, too, has shown more eagerness for the EV transition than the U.S., with 16% of their new vehicles sold in 2021 being EVs. In the U.S., it was only 5%, placing it at 19 out of the 20 countries studied for EV sales.
The reason for Americans’ apprehensiveness toward EVs stems from high price tags and a lack of adequate infrastructure. The World Economic Forum has stated that in the U.S., there are only 53,000 charging stations, compared to the 145,000 gas stations in the country.
Additionally, charging EVs is a time-consuming process, especially when a charging station is broken, which is the case with one-fourth of them, as climate advocacy group Cool the Earth discovered.
