Vehicles with combustion engines continue to be very popular with drivers. This emerges from Targobank’s annual car survey. According to this, when buying a car, 68 percent of those surveyed would prefer a combustion engine to an electric car (2023: 72 percent). At the same time, 31 percent think that combustion engines are no longer up to date.
1,009 drivers took part in the representative online survey by the opinion research institute Forsa. The study found that when buying a car, 31 percent of those surveyed would give priority to gasoline engines, while 13 percent would choose a diesel. 15 percent could imagine a car with a hybrid drive and three percent could imagine a fuel cell vehicle. 17 percent would prefer a purely electric car. The remaining 21 percent were undecided. According to the survey, 29 percent of combustion engine drivers plan to switch to an alternative drive. In 2023 it was still 36 percent.
According to the survey, the image of electric cars has improved within twelve months. 43 percent of those surveyed consider electric cars to be more environmentally friendly than combustion engines. When it came to concerns about electric cars mentioned in the survey, the comparatively high purchase price, the fact that the batteries are harmful to the environment, their limited lifespan, an insufficiently developed charging station network and a range that was too short were mentioned particularly frequently. The popularity of hybrid vehicles fell within a year.