As of April 2021, over 13 out of 20 U.S. consumers perceived the cost of electric vehicles to be worse than the cost of their gas-powered counterpart. By contrast, the perception of electric vehicles' effect on the environment of 67 percent of respondents was better than that of gas-powered vehicles. In 2020, light-duty electric vehicles had displaced 500 million gallons of gasoline in the United States.
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Pew Research Center. (June 3, 2021). Electric vehicle perception by consumers in the United States in 2021, compared to gas-powered vehicles [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 01, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1277813/us-consumers-perception-of-electric-vehicles-compared-to-gas-powered-vehicles/
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