{"id":18722,"date":"2022-03-29T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2022-03-29T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:03:52","slug":"1135438_poll-finds-bipartisan-support-for-policies-supporting-ev-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=18722","title":{"rendered":"Poll finds bipartisan support for policies supporting EV adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"

The increasingly partisan divide in Congress over electric-vehicle-related policy spending may be disconnected from reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>That\u2019s one of the potential conclusions from a national poll released Monday by the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), a policy and advocacy trade group representing the industry around EVs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The poll, which gathered responses last month, found that there is widespread bipartisan support for what it terms \u201csmart policies designed to increase the adoption of electric vehicles.\u201d According to ZETA, 79% of voters support consumer incentives that would help reduce the purchase price of EVs and 69% of voters would support federal, state, and local investments in EV charging infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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Support of EV charger infrastructure by political affiliation. – ZETA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It also found that one in five American car owners would \u201cdefinitely choose\u201d an EV as their next purchased vehicle, while another 27% would \u201cstrongly consider\u201d an EV\u2014adding up to nearly half of vehicle owners leaning very favorably to fully electric as a next vehicle.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The widest difference between the perspectives of Republicans and Democrats appears to be on EVs\u2019 influence on jobs and the economy. The survey reported 83% of Democrats seeing EVs as having a positive effect, while 27% of GOP respondents believe that EV adoption will have a negative effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The impacts of EV adoption by politcal affiliation. – ZETA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The poll, which was conducted between February 14 and 22, surveyed 1,000 \u201clikely voters who are also vehicle lessees or owners,\u201d with the aim to mirror a wide range of demographics, including \u201cnationwide ideology and geographic distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Respondents also provided a consistent affirmation that EVs in general are now considered \u201ccooler\u201d than gas-powered vehicles\u2014elevating a previous public impression that might have only held for Tesla.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>ZETA says that the results are evidence that policymakers who support the policies around EV adoption are on the side of prevalent public opinion. \u201cBy speeding up the rate of EV adoption in the United States, the federal government will combat climate change, boost our public health, create good-paying jobs, and deliver huge cost savings for American consumers,\u201d said Dan Zotos, ZETA\u2019s communication director.<\/p>\n

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning pre-production<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This might not seem like news if you\u2019ve been following EVs for a long time. The energy-independent aspects used to attract Republicans and Democrats almost equally.\u00a0 decade ago, As recently as 2019, a survey from Climate Nexus found that 77% of Americans viewed EV positively<\/a>\u2014without a whole lot of variation across political affiliations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>An extension and expansion of the federal EV tax credit in 2019 had bipartisan support<\/a> before it was cut out of a federal spending bill due to \u201cextreme resistance\u201d from the Trump administration<\/a>. Trump had also criticized GM\u2019s strategy<\/a> to transition to more electric cars, saying that \u201call-electric is not going to work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Although the motivations have always been different. In 2009, we reported that Democrats outnumbered Republicans nearly two to one<\/a> in purchasing hybrids like the Prius.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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2009 Toyota Prius<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There have been some previous indications that the American public isn\u2019t necessarily as polarized as politicians are portraying. A couple of Pew polls conducted in 2021 suggested that Americans are mostly aligned on the environmental merits of EVs<\/a> and that the vast majority support the expansion of renewable energy. And going back to 2017 the Brookings Institution pointed out that U.S. views on climate change had remained essentially constant since the Bush administration.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Despite this, Democrats haven\u2019t been blameless in exaggerating the divisions, as many made \u201cno climate, no deal\u201d<\/a> a mantra (or ultimatum) in negotiating over details for the Biden infrastructure bill, which originally included more provisions for EV infrastructure and renewable energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Is Congress exaggerating our divisions over EV incentives and renewable energy spending? Leave us your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The increasingly partisan divide in Congress over electric-vehicle-related policy spending may be disconnected from reality.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the potential conclusions from a national poll released Monday by the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), a policy and advocacy trade group representing the industry around EVs.\u00a0 The poll, which gathered responses last month, found that there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}