The EV Culture Wars Aren’t What They Seem

October 3, 2024

The Atlantic

Lucas Davis, Energy Institute Faculty Affiliate, has his research on EV political partisanship featured in The Atlantic. His research indicates a strong divide in EV registration between Republican and Democratic parties.

“Republicans’ hesitance to drive an EV is remarkably strong and sustained. The Berkeley analysis, for instance, found that the partisan divide in new EV registrations showed up in not only 2022, but also 2021, and 2020, and every year since 2012, when the analysis began. It remains even after controlling for income and other pragmatic factors that might motivate or dissuade people from buying an EV, Lucas Davis, a Berkeley economist and one of the authors, told me.”

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