GRA said:
[Considering the number of MNL LEAF owners (including several in posts immediately preceding yours) who have, are going to or are considering returning to ICE/HEV/PHEV, at least until the 2nd Gen. BEVs arrive, I suspect your % is high, especially considering that MNL types tend to be among the earliest adopters and the most dedicated to PEVs. As to sacrilege, I wasn't aware that we had a official Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the EV community, even though we have many amateur inquisitors who are all too happy to stamp out anything they perceive as heresy. Although it's unclear whether or not the survey only refers to plug-ins or includes hybrids, 'EV' includes HEVs: the 'EV' after the 'H' is the giveaway. (Burn the witch! She turned me into a Newt!)...
Since you are seizing on anecdotes as evidence of your thesis, I'll offer a counter-example: I am seriously considering getting rid of my ICEV, since it is so old that it is getting unreliable. I have no intention whatsoever of replacing it with another ICEV. Rather, I am looking at used Teslas, now that prices are finally starting to drop into the realm of "reasonable". And that's after more than four years of LEAF use in a challenging environment for which it was never intended and for which I would never recommend it to others.
I have little patience with anecdotal evidence and I agree with those above who suggest that if the original study includes plug-in hybrids the conclusions are
completely invalid when applied to BEVs and BEV owners. And, yes, this is just my opinion, as your original, deliberately inflammatory, thesis above is just your opinion.
My 2¢.