@Mrzorro:Tesla and Other EV Makers Have a New Problem: Buyers' Doubts Electric vehicle's eventual dominance of the personal transportation market appears to be a fait accompli for everyone but the people who count the most. Car companies believe it. Investors believe it. But car buyers don't seem as sure. UBS recently surveyed more than 10,000 consumers and found that 46% of potential car buyers would be willing to purchase an EV. That's high enough to be encouraging for the industry, but the reading from the same survey a year ago was 49%. The 2023 result was also the first sequential decline since 2016. Interest in EVs is waning, a little. The decline was "driven by European markets on affordability concerns," wrote co-author and automotive analyst Patrick Hummel. Despite the concerning rea