For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey about what Electrek readers think it would take to convince the most EV-resistant fleet operators to realize that electric vehicles are ready for work TODAY. After receiving 1,700 responses, here’s what you told us.

In case you missed the survey, the question read, “ACT Expo just wrapped up for 2026, and while battery-electric commercial vehicles are clearly gaining traction, there are still plenty of people spreading that ‘messy middle’ garbage … what do you think it’ll take for the holdouts to realize EVs are ready for real work — today?”

Before we get too far into the results, however, it should be noted that industry-leading fleet experts like GEOTAB and Transport Canada have shown that the majority of commercial vehicles on the road today could be fully electrified tomorrow without hardly missing a beat – and, in the case of semi trucks, save fleets up to $160,000 per truck.

This survey isn’t about whether EVs work. They do, and that fact isn’t up for debate. What we’re interested in is here, then, what readers think it will take for the remaining holdouts to accept what operators are already seeing firsthand in the field.