In September of 2013, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), along with the Consumers Union, set out to do a survey into the driving habits and needs of drivers in US households. Their findings reveal that a whopping 42 percent of all could in fact, cater to the use of electric vehicles in their current form, with minimal changes in their lifestyles.
This big chunk is the rougher estimate, but it includes those households that can easily adapt to using something like a plug-in hybrid or range extender (the Chevy Volt).
A lower, but still significant slice of 25 percent, would also qualify to run a battery-powered EV (Nissan Leaf), despite the fact that that only less than 1 percent do so now.
Another important area of the study focused on drivers’ need for daily range. It discovered that 69 percent of households would be okay with what current EVs running only on batteries can provide, while 65 percent of them thought these cars were “essential part of our nation’s transportation future for reducing oil use and global warming pollution.”
You can check it all out in the UCS infographic posted in the gallery below, as well as going to their official site and reading the in-depth information provided there.
By Andrei Nedelea
Story References: Green.Autoblog
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