U.S.: environmental impact importance on leasing or buying a vehicle as of July 2023

Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 16, 2024

In answering the question regarding the importance of the environmental impact that buying or leasing a vehicle has on the consumer decision to buy or lease, most respondents answered that it was only somewhat important, with 40 percent of responses. In contrast, over a quarter of U.S. consumers considered environmental impact was not too significant in their decision to buy or lease a car.

Self-reported importance of the environmental impact on U.S. consumers' buying or leasing intentions, as of July 2023

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Statistic: Self-reported importance of the environmental impact on U.S. consumers' buying or leasing intentions, as of July 2023

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Release date

July 2023

Region

North America, United States

Survey time period

June 28, 2023, to July 14, 2023

Number of respondents

8,286 respondents

Special properties

data weighted to be nationally representative.

Method of interview

Telephone interviews and online survey

Supplementary notes

The question asked was "Overall, how important or not important is impact on the environment when making the following transportation decisions?"

Question is regarding fully electric vehicles, not utilizing other fuel sources

Data from the original survey was collected mostly through web-based methods, and mostly in English, with 172 interviews being in Spanish. The data presented here concerns a subset of this survey.

Data assigned confidence levels of 95 percent, with +/-1.37 percentage points as a margin of error

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