# What would make you buy an electric vehicle?

**URL:** <https://community.electricforum.com/t/what-would-make-you-buy-an-electric-vehicle/3894>\
**Category:** EV Small Talk\
**Created:** [November 23, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/what-would-make-you-buy-an-electric-vehicle/3894 "2013-11-23T04:40:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Editor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/49beb7/32.png) [@Editor](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Editor)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/what-would-make-you-buy-an-electric-vehicle/3894/1 "2013-11-23T04:40:55Z")

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There are many of us around the world who drive every day of our lives, to work, socially who have looked at the electric vehicle market. As the market is currently miniscule compared to the gasoline/petrol market, what is it that would make us buy an electric vehicle? What is the trigger point which would […]

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**Author:** ![AV8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@AV8](https://community.electricforum.com/u/AV8)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/what-would-make-you-buy-an-electric-vehicle/3894/2 "2014-09-08T16:55:11Z")

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Better batteries. Cheaper also. All the savings are wasted when I have to drop 1000 on new batteries.