Ford Survey Finds EV Owners Highly Satisfied - Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)
While there are still clearly many skeptics out there who doubt that electric vehicles will catch on with mainstream motorists, a recent survey by Ford Motor Co. proves that existing owners of electrified vehicles are nonetheless overwhelmingly... Ford’s survey, conducted in conjunction with EV research entity PlugInsights , found that 92 percent of battery electric vehicle (BEV) owners and 94 percent of plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle (PHEV) owners plan to purchase another electric vehicle... Clearly drivers that have made the switch to electrified vehicles love them, and in most cases, any limitations such as BEV range-anxiety have not proved to be sufficiently troublesome that owners feel inclined to revert to a gasoline-only vehicle. I spoke to Ford’s manger of electric vehicle and technology deployment, Stephanie Janczak, about the survey, and she told me one of the reasons the automaker conducted it was to find out how to get people into an electric vehicle in the first... This is important to Ford, as it currently offers both a pure electric version of its Focus hatchback, as well as plug-in hybrid versions of its Fusion end C-Max models. Source: www.triplepundit.com
