Are Americans Really Disappointed in EVs? We Asked 7 Owners.The ascendancy of electric vehicles is a truly astonishing thing to behold. It was only back in 2010 that the Nissan Leaf, the first mass-market EV, was released in the U.S. Less than 15 years later, almost every major manufacturer has a fully-electric car, truck or SUV for sale, and Americans are buying them in record numbers. However, if you’ve read the recent news about the automotive sector, you may be under the impression that Americans have actually decided they don’t want electrified cars. The Wall Street Journal gave a November feature the provocative headline “Are Americans Falling Out of Love With EVs?” but quickly wrote in the story that, actually, “the jury is out”; that didn’t stop their editorial board from issuing an opinion this month that claimed “Americans don’t like the product.” Elsewhere, the focus has been more on slowing EV sales that haven’t met the expectations of automakers, not assuming that buyers themselves are turning their nose up at the electric experience. So how do Americans really feel about electric cars? We spoke to seven people from different parts of the country who made the switch to an EV sometime in the last six months. Their reasons for taking the plunge are wildly different, and so are their thoughts on what they’ve liked and disliked about the experience so far. One thing that they do have in common? They’re far from disillusioned. | 