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Attitudes towards buying electric cars and vans in the United Kingdom 2014

Which of these statements best describes your current attitude towards buying an electric car or van?
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The data displays the share of responses to a survey on attitudes towards buying electric cars within Great Britain between March 2013 and February 2014. 69% of drivers and 56% of all respondents said that they had not thought about buying an electric car before while only 6% of drivers were seriously considering buying an electric car and only 1% were planning to do it soon.

I haven't really thought about buying an electric car or van 56 69
I don't drive / don't need a car 18 3
I thought about buying one, but decided not to 14 18
I'm thinking about buying one, but I don't know when 4 5
Don't know (spontaneous only) 3 2
Refused to answer 2 1
I have never heard of electric cars or vans 1 1
I am thinking about buying an electric car or van quite soon 1 1
I already own an electric car or van 0 0