- Oil Prices - survey sunday ## Survey rewind: how much pain at the pump will it take to switch to EV? [update] Back in April, we ran a sidebar survey about how much Electrek readers think gas would need to cost to convince the most dedicated anti-EV hysterics to switch to a plug-in car. After receiving over 2,800 responses, here’s what you told us. UPDATE 26SEP2026: a gallon of BP ultimate 93 octane is $7.19 in Chicago. I took the photo, above, in downtown Chicago myself, last night, from the passenger seat of a plug-in Volvo. Even knowing that, I can still hardly believe that the brainless,…