About 3 in 10 Americans would seriously consider buying an electric vehicle
The share of Americans who say electric vehicles are better for the environment than gas vehicles has decreased 20 points since 2021, from 67%.
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The share of Americans who say electric vehicles are better for the environment than gas vehicles has decreased 20 points since 2021, from 67%.
A majority favor U.S. efforts to become carbon neutral by 2050, but few express strong interest in buying EVs or reducing their own carbon emissions.
Members of the American Trends Panel can now take our surveys online or over the phone with an interviewer.
Here, we address some of the most common questions we receive about the nuts and bolts of taking a U.S.-focused Pew Research Center poll.
Across six issue areas, the share of adults who say there is at least some common ground between the parties has declined by an average of 12 points since 2023.
Most Biden supporters favor a bigger government with a strong social safety net. Trump backers generally take the opposing view.
Trump and Biden supporters share a fair amount of common ground when it comes to criticisms of the U.S. economic system.
More than 73 million people watched at least some of the first Trump-Biden debate in 2020, making it the third-largest debate audience ever.
None of the four major British political parties we asked about in our survey receive net positive ratings from the British public.
The shares of Israelis who see very strong conflicts in their society have shrunk, but public opinion has grown more polarized in other ways.