The founder of Tesla, SpaceX and the highest shareholder in X formerly Twitter Inc. Elon Musk recently said that 99% of cars will be electric and autonomous in the future.
He made his tweet in support of the tweet by Sawyer Meritt who published research that reported declining of Electric Vehicles (EV) popularity as greatly exaggerated according to Peter Haugneland.
According to Sawyer Meritt’s tweet, less than 1% of EV owners switch back to gas-powered cars after making a purchase. He quoted the Global EV Driver (GEVA) Survey as the source of the bold statement, as twenty-three thousand people from eighteen countries were sampled in the survey.
Elon Musk noted further in his tweet that manually driven cars powered by gasoline will be like riding a horse while using a flip phone.
Tesla CEO/ Founder believes strongly in the fate of Electric Vehicles as the future of automobiles in the world as he predicted that 99% of cars will be electric in the future.
In the survey by GEVA, a higher number of people sampled in the survey said they chose to buy EVs due to lower operating costs. Many participants in the survey equally acknowledged that Electric vehicles are climate-friendly while 92% chose to have EVs as opposed to 4% that chose a plug-in hybrid while 1% were undecided.