Lots of polls and posts lately about politics on MeTAR, international or not. This link is about EV adoption, a topic with not only economic significance, but also environmental and societal. I post it here in the hopes that it will last, but know that it may not. If you elect to comment, please consider whether it will be helpful to the conversation.
The finding held when researchers accounted for income, [gas prices], and population density. That means that even when looking at dense, urban areas — which are more likely to have more public EV charging — Democratic counties outweighed Republican ones in EV adoption.
The population centers want EVs more. The Rural areas less. Winters are tough in large parts of this country. EVs find it tougher to compete in cold winters.
Not sure why this needs to be labeled.
The positions on EV reverse based on regional area instead of party tag. The GOP EV in CA numbers would be more interesting.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/us/electric-vehicles-republican-voters-dg/index.html
In nine of the 31 states and DC that register voters by party, for example, more Republicans voters are linked to records of electric vehicles – including insurance and repair records – than Democrats. Republicans, independents and third-party voters associated with electric vehicles also exceed Democrats in 24 of those states.
This data contradicts the idea that electric vehicles are “only popular with coastal elites and liberals,” said David Kieve, president of the Environmental Defense Fund Action…
Many of the drivers of electric vehicles adoption are unrelated to politics, according to market experts.
What do you mean, at the same time? You state that like it is a counter-argument. Your response supports the OP.
In other words, in 22 of 31 states, more Democrats than Reps registered EVs; even in states where there were less Democrats than Reps, Indies, or 3rd party registrants.
I am leaving this post on METAR because it has economic (marketing) significance for a major industry. It’s not a partisan post.
If an investor wanted to know whether an EV company’s factory builds and/or marketing campaigns would be profitable this information could be helpful.
This data contradicts the idea that electric vehicles are “only popular with coastal elites and liberals,” said David Kieve, president of the Environmental Defense Fund Action…
There’s a better way to look at this information. States that are run by Democrats tend to have better incentives to buy EVs, and states with better incentives have a higher penetration rate. Within those states however, both Democrats, Republicans, and Independents tend to buy EVs. Some of the best incentives in recent years were to be found in CA, CO, and NJ. And most recently, it appears that WA has the best incentives of all. Like almost everything in politics, pocketbook usually overcomes everything else.
Living in CA, new '23 RAV4 Limited Hybrid. No Incentives found… Found a dealer with no markup, kept it down to $48K, like it all, but zero incentives…
Same problem with our A/C last year, it wasn’t an Energy Star, so no rebates for the heat pump model we chose…
If you can limit your income to 80% of the Hartford County median, you can get an $8,000 refund from the Federal Gov’t on a heat pump.
Of course that’s a stretch, I’m sure. The long suffering, City of Hartford really brings the County median income down to a pretty low level. {{ LOL }}
But seriously, I have the same problem with the Federal EV tax credit. I was trying to have a low income year so I could use it at least once, but so far it isn’t working out. This is the main reason I so much prefer buybacks over dividends, with buybacks, I can choose when to take income, with dividends, the company decides when I take income.
