{"id":215923,"date":"2025-06-14T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/most-people-believe-misinformation-about-electric-vehicles-international-survey-finds"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:08:34","slug":"most-people-believe-misinformation-about-electric-vehicles-international-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/most-people-believe-misinformation-about-electric-vehicles-international-survey-finds","title":{"rendered":"Most people believe misinformation about electric vehicles, international survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-people-believe-misinformation-about-electric-vehicles-international-survey-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) than disagree with it, according to surveys of four countries, including Australia, Germany, Austria, and the US. The survey found having a conspiracy mentality was the main factor influencing such beliefs, the authors say.<\/p>\n<p>The main <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/misinformation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">misinformation<\/a>-related concerns for Australians included that EVs are more likely to catch fire, that EVs are intentionally complex to prevent DIY, and that batteries are deliberately non-upgradeable. The authors also found that fact sheets and dialogues with AI-chatbots helped reduce belief in misinformation and increased pro-EV policy support and purchase intentions.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Queensland-led study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-025-01790-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Energy<\/i> has found misinformation about <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric vehicles<\/a> (EVs) has taken root in society and is primarily fueled by mistrust and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/conspiracy+theories\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">conspiracy theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) than disagree with it, according to surveys of four countries, including Australia, Germany, Austria, and the US. The survey found having a conspiracy mentality was the main factor influencing such beliefs, the authors say. The main misinformation-related concerns for Australians included that EVs are more likely to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}