Americans were never crazy about electric vehicles to begin with, certainly not in a Cabbage Patch Doll or Beanie Baby buying frenzy sort of way.
For one thing, EVs were always too expensive and too impractical for an impulse purchase, which is what Americans live for when they go nuts over some new technology. Take Playstations or iPhones.
Those are all very dear to purchase, yes, but you can still put food on the table.
The price of an entry-level Tesla a few years ago, or a Fisker was up there with your dream big ass, full size Chevy or Ford truck.
In 95% of the cases, the truck was going to win had you the cha-ching to indulge.
But as the technology advanced, EVs remained a curiosity for a lot of people, including me, even though they’d never consider buying one, either because it wouldn’t work for their lifestyle/needs or was still too expensive.
The idea always seemed wicked cool but largely impractical to the average bear. EVs were a niche market by nature.
The cool factor bloom rapidly fell off that rose when it became the mission of the climate cultists installed in offices across the country – reinforced by the tainted 2020 victory of a now-acknowledged puddin’ head puppet in the White House – to shove EVs down the collective country’s throat by hook and mostly crook.
The British are still at it.
I simply cannot understand how they don’t see how this will end.
What is wrong with them?
PEOPLE WILL NOT PAY MORE MONEY FOR CARS THEY DON’T WANT.
— Matpac (@MattPachent) April 7, 2025
The war on the internal combustion engine (ICE) and Americans’ freedom of choice had begun in earnest. EVs became an anathema – the symbol of everything expensive, oversold, authoritarian, and repressive about the Green movement.
Watching hugely subsidized EV manufacturers (with the exception of Tesla) –
Elon Musk got a loan for Tesla and paid it back 9 years early with 20 million dollars in interest. The other car companies Obama’s treasury department lent money to went bankrupt.
Watching a political party who worshiped Elon Musk and is all about EVs spend their whole day…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) April 5, 2025
– take trunkfuls of taxpayers’ dollars only to fail repeatedly and come back for more, with a technology that had yet to keep up with promises, was maddening. To watch billions upon billions wasted on renewable rollouts for charging stations that never happened or foreign school bus companies that went bust after delivering a fraction of the vehicles promised – with most of those compromised by shoddy workmanship and electrical problems to the point of uselessness – was infuriating.
The Whitmer-appointed MEDC has yet to clawback $3M in corporate welfare from broke debt-ridden electric truck maker Bollinger Motors. When one of your majority stakeholders is accused of selling CCP-made EVs after rebranding them as American made, your company shouldn’t be… pic.twitter.com/4nRu7ZWKQ7
— Heather Dow (@PatriotPostGirl) April 3, 2025
EV sales reached their zenith a couple of years ago, and while still selling, it’s nowhere near the pace that eager-beaver cultists and authoritarian governments had projected and based their decrees on.
EVs sales.
Still not hitting Government targets.
Despite the coercion and mandates.
Because they are expensive and unfit for purpose.#CostOfNetZero #ElectricVehicles pic.twitter.com/nocCv6g1ir— DonKeiller (@KeillerDon) April 6, 2025
European car makers have been scrambling to drop or downsize planned new EV model rollouts, burnish what they do have, and focus on their ICE and hybrid money-makers.
Here in the States, thanks to the November 5th election, we’ve managed to stop some of the bleeding.
There won’t be any EV mandate coming out of an administration that is actively working to undo the harm of the previous one’s climate-driven insanity.
Yeah, I voted for this.
And, in another augury of the EV future, a survey came out that finds that Americans, who were just never that big into EVs to begin with, are even less so today.
It’s probably more accurate to say that early adopters love them, the messy middle is mostly indifferent, and the rest of the population hates them.
There’s only so many early adopters, so now that they have EVs the market is stalling.
— Tesla Trucklet (@TeslaTrucklet) April 8, 2025
If you love them, you probably already have yours.
The rest of us? Not a chance.
Not even to support Elon (I did buy a SpaceX t-shirt – more my speed).
Americans are less interested in buying and owning electric vehicles than they were two years ago, according to polling Gallup released Tuesday.
The poll shows that the number of Americans who are open to buying an EV has dropped to 51 percent in early 2025, down from 59 percent in 2023.
…Lydia Saad, director of U.S. social research at Gallup, said the poll doesn’t show the exact reasons for the drop in interest — but she emphasized that the drop first appeared in Gallup’s polling in March 2024. In that survey, the same number of Americans, 51 percent, said that they own an EV or are open to purchasing one.
…The poll, for example, captures a shift in attitude among the most enthusiastic supporters of EVs. The number of Americans who say they already own an EV or are seriously considering buying one dropped from 16 percent in 2024 to 11 percent in 2025. Democrats, young adults and college graduates also showed declines between 2023 and 2025.
So this survey, like many things lately, is a sign of an off-kilter world righting itself. A shiny new thing has been squinted at, discussed, digested, and returned to the niche curiosity it always was.
The momentary blip in the natural course of evolution caused by the Biden era mandates and continued intransigence of fools like Gavin Newsom has faded, and Americans are free to be out once again doing their own thing.
Of course, they are always on alert for the next ‘SQUIRREL!‘
But the price has to be right before they’ll keep it.
