23% of French manifest intentions of acquiring an electric vehicle

src=”http://new-car-purchase.org/wp-content/plugins/WPRobot3/images/e8610__Renault-Fluence-ZE.jpg”For its 28th edition, the Observatory Cetelem Motor interviewed more than 6,000 people electric vehicles in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Turkey and Russia.

More than one in two French (54%) said interest in technology of the electric car , and 23% of French manifest intentions of acquisition.

Question budget, 57% of French envisage financial effort to acquire an electric vehicle . And only 1 / 3 of them say they are willing to pay this type of vehicle up to 10% more expensive than the equivalent heat.

77% of French are less than 100 km per day, yet 71% of French people do not consider buying a vehicle with a self less than 250 km . The expectations of the French in this area are higher than current batteries autonomy between 150 and 180 km.

61% of French people consider essential the development of fast charging stations on the street . And 30% of French is important. In total, 91% of the French claim of fast charging stations in public. The expectations of the French infrastructure charging in road opposed to the Green Paper of charging infrastructure that provides do u recharge road in 5% of cases.

83% of French people say they are interested in replace a discharged battery in a few minutes at a service station .

71% consider that the powers public do not help enough chain of the electric car.

75% of French people consider that the electric vehicle is the best way forward to protect the environment. Even with nuclear power, the use of an electric vehicle is in their eyes, an environmental point of view, preferable to that of a vehicle heat for 60% of them. ” / p> However, 54% of French people think that the challenge of nuclear power could jeopardize the future of electric vehicles.

The benefits of electric cars are the eyes of the French Green (69 %), economic (51%), modern / future (27%) and silence (23 %).

55% of French people think that electric vehicles can achieve savings with the use (self care, consumer ??).

Among the main reasons for disinterest in electric vehicles, 47% of French believe “it’s too expensive” and 50% that “autonomy is not sufficient” .

Source: Observatoire Cetelem Motor

study devoted to a thorough analysis of the car Electrical and expectations of Europeans
study conducted in 10 major countries: Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Britain, Belgium, Poland, Russia and Turkey.
study conducted with the BIPE and TNS Sofres in autumn 2011, with a sample of 6000 persons, representative of the population in 10 countries.