Page 5 - IDEA_Studie_02_2019_Elektromobily

Study 2/2019
Electric car reaches space, but only makes it into the Czech Republic after a discount
FEbRuaRy 2019
Milan Ščasný, iva Zvěřinová, ZuZana Rajchlová, Eva KysElá
Summary
• The study summarizes the results of a questionnaire survey on public perceptions of electric vehicles and their purchase in the Czech Republic. 43 % of a representative sample of the adult population planned to buy a car within the next three years.
• Most (72 %) people who planned to buy a car within the next three years believed they would pay much more money for an electric car than for one with a combustion engine. Apart from the financial aspect, electric vehicles were perceived positively in many ways. Approximately 78 % of respondents who planned to buy a car believed that electric vehicles are less noisy, more environmentally friendly and emit less CO2.
• However, most of them expected that within three years of the survey there would only be a limited number of service stations for electric vehicles in the Czech Republic (64 %), just a few public charging stations available in the Czech Republic (64 %), and battery life would be less than 8 years (58 %).
• In the second part of this study we analyse responses of people planning to buy a car within the next three years. Under the conditions in 2017 (when the survey took place), 12 % of these respondents were considering buying a hybrid or electric car (2.4 % of respondents were considering the purchase a battery electric car, 1.6 % a plug-in hybrid vehicle and almost 5 % a hybrid car).
• Lowering the purchase price of an electric car or its operating costs, improvement of technical characteristics and provision of additional benefits when purchasing an electric car increases the likelihood of an electric vehicle being chosen. The proportion of people choosing an electric vehicle could increase by approximately 0.5 % if there was a purchase price discount of CZK 100,000. However, for respondents who are already considering buying a hybrid or an electric car, this effect is 2.7-6.2 percentage points for every CZK 100,000 price reduction.
3