Anyone tracked how EV perception has shifted in the last year?

Yes! J.D. Power and Consumer Reports both publish annual EV sentiment trackers — range anxiety has actually dropped noticeably over the past 18 months while upfront cost remains the #1 barrier. For measuring attitude shifts yourself, a simple repeated cross-sectional survey with Likert scales on those two dimensions works well, or you can mine social listening tools like Brandwatch for organic sentiment trends over time.