Texas #1 Business Climate, US EV Drivers Thinking About Switching Back To Gas

Texas continues to secure the border here in The Lone Star State. Greg Abbott frequently posts videos on X/Twitter showcasing the progress of the border wall construction along the southern border:

Texas ranks #1 in the country for business climate for consecutive years. If we were our own country, Texas would be the 8th largest economy in the world. Here is a quote from the article:

TEDT also notes that among state rankings, in 2023, Texas ranked first for having the best business climate, first for semiconductor production, second in food processing, second in cyber security, and third in aerospace and defense. In metro rankings last year, Austin ranked first for life sciences growth, Georgetown was the fastest growing city with a population of over 50,000, Baytown had the second-best industrial park and Bowie County the third best in the country. The top five corporate headquarters in the country were in Dallas/Irving/Plano, TEDT notes.

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Latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump ahead 49-45% over Joe Biden. The 45th president leads with Independents by a whopping 10% at 51-41%. Here is more from Breitbart:

Nearly half, 46% of EV drivers in America want to switch back to a gas powered vehicle!

"I didn't expect that," the head of McKinsey's Center for Future Mobility, Philipp Kampshoff, told Automotive News. "I thought, 'Once an EV buyer, always an EV buyer.'"

In the poll of nearly 37,000 consumers worldwide, Australia was the only country with a greater percentage, 49%, of EV owners than the U.S. who said they were ready to return to owning an internal combustion engine.

The other countries included in the survey were Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Norway. Across all countries surveyed, the average share of respondents who want to ditch their EVs was 29%.

The biggest reason EV owners cited for wanting to return to owning a gas-powered vehicle was the lack of available charging infrastructure (35%); the second-highest reason cited was that the total cost of owning an EV was too high (34%). Nearly 1 in 3, 32%, said their driving patterns on long-distance trips were affected too much due to having an EV.

McKinsey found that consumers' satisfaction globally with charging availability has improved some since last year's survey but noted it "still has a long way to go."

Of the EV owners across all countries, 11% said the infrastructure where they live is well set up in terms of charge points, 40% said there were not enough chargers along highways and main roads, and 38% said there were not enough chargers in close proximity to them.

The findings come years into the Biden administration's push for U.S. consumers and automakers to embrace EVs and reinforce other recent polling that indicates a major chunk of Americans are still not sold on going all-electric.

To further Biden's EV agenda, Democrats passed infrastructure legislation in 2021 that committed billions of taxpayer dollars to building a half million charging stations in the U.S. by the end of the decade.