As soon as automobile consumers get an electrical automobile, the percentages are very low of them returning to any form of mannequin that depends on a fuel pump.
That is one of many conclusions of J.D. Energy’s 2025 U.S. Electrical Automobile Expertise Possession Research, which requested 6,164 house owners of EVs and plug-in hybrids from mannequin years 2024 and 2025 about their first 12 months of possession. These respondents have been surveyed from August by means of December 2024.
Of the EV house owners surveyed, 94% mentioned they have been prone to think about buying one other EV as their subsequent automobile. And solely 12% mentioned they have been prone to think about changing their EV with a automobile with an internal-combustion engine—together with a hybrid or plug-in hybrid.
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Total, regardless of all of the coverage and messaging suggesting a pivot away from EVs, the research discovered EV satisfaction on the upswing, after two years wherein house owners have been significantly sad with areas together with the tech and interface, and public charging.
Amongst mass-market EV house owners, satisfaction was up 86 factors 12 months over 12 months, to 725 factors on a scale of 1,000. J.D. Energy attributes that to continued charging infrastructure buildout and the variety of EV manufacturers embracing the NACS charging commonplace and giving their clients entry to the Tesla Supercharger community.
The research additionally confirmed better satisfaction amongst plug-in hybrid house owners. The common rating for premium plug-in hybrids—a brand new subset thought of on this 12 months’s research—was 741, larger than mass-market EVs, and solely 15 index factors decrease than premium EVs. That is a big enchancment within the total image for plug-in hybrids in comparison with earlier J.D. Energy research.
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The shift away from Tesla is skewing gross sales outcomes that in any other case present vital beneficial properties amongst EV gross sales for many different manufacturers, and regardless of Tesla’s nosedive, total EV gross sales could achieve 3% of market share this 12 months.
In locations like Florida or Texas, whether or not these states have favorable EV coverage or not, this very excessive fee of homeowners trying to commerce in for an additional EV is very excellent news.