by Martin LaMonica Font size Print E-mail Share 34 comments Share
Electric vehicles designed for everyday driving are coming out in a matter of months. But the industry continues to play a giant guessing game over how consumers will take to them.
Deloitte Consulting on Thursday released results of a consumer survey on electric and hybrid vehicles and delivered a relatively modest forecast on volume, citing hurdles such as cost, range, and infrastructure.
It expects sales of all-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to be somewhere between nearly 2 percent and 5.6 percent of the U.S. market in 2020, or between 285,000 and 840,000 units. Share by 2015 will be at most one half of a percent, according to Deloitte, which presented its results during a teleconference on Thursday.
Photos: Plug-in vehicles in Motor City
View the Original article