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Teagan Reasch

Teagan Reasch

PhD candidate in Energy and Environmental Policy at The Ohio State University's John Glenn College of Public Affairs, featured on PBS's Energy Switch.

Jul 28, 2026

14:36
How about on the sustainability side, uh, Teagan? Are, uh, are your findings what you expected? Are they different from what you expected? What are you learning?
14:45
So, uh, our main finding was that negative perceptions do impact people's interest in purchasing an electric vehicle, which is pretty intuitive.
14:54
It was just something that we felt needed to be looked at.
14:58
And also, we had one very interesting finding.
15:01
We expected, you know, conservative, uh, individuals to be less interested in, uh, purchasing an electric vehicle, liberal individuals to be more interested when compared to moderate.
15:10
We actually found that when we included caring about climate change as a variable, that conservative individuals were actually slightly more interested in purchasing an electric vehicle than a moderate individual, and people who, uh, were liberal, it wasn't significant.
15:25
And when we control for things that are highly associated with political, uh, uh, affiliation, that effect-

7 MINS LATER

22:13
Teagan, a couple final thoughts.
14:36
How about on the sustainability side, uh, Teagan? Are, uh, are your findings what you expected? Are they different from what you expected? What are you learning?
14:45
So, uh, our main finding was that negative perceptions do impact people's interest in purchasing an electric vehicle, which is pretty intuitive.
14:54
It was just something that we felt needed to be looked at.
14:58
And also, we had one very interesting finding.
15:01
We expected, you know, conservative, uh, individuals to be less interested in, uh, purchasing an electric vehicle, liberal individuals to be more interested when compared to moderate.
15:10
We actually found that when we included caring about climate change as a variable, that conservative individuals were actually slightly more interested in purchasing an electric vehicle than a moderate individual, and people who, uh, were liberal, it wasn't significant.
15:25
And when we control for things that are highly associated with political, uh, uh, affiliation, that effect-

7 MINS LATER

22:12
Teagan, couple final thoughts.

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