Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is confident more Americans will love electric vehicles

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sat down with ABC News to discuss Americans' concerns over electric vehicles.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm can relate to Americans' anxiety over electric vehicles.

The former governor of Michigan and longtime EV owner (who currently drives a Ford Mach-E) says she has experienced her own challenges with public charging on road trips. She has heard from drivers who are reluctant to give up their eight-cylinder engines and large trucks and SUVs for an electric model. But she is convinced that more Americans will soon realize the benefits of owning one, helping to change the current anti-EV rhetoric in this country.

"The Ford F-150 is a great example of a big car that has gone electric. But people have to make their own decisions," Granholm told ABC News in an interview Thursday. "I get it -- nobody is gonna force anybody to make these decisions. I honestly think ... as the price of the electric vehicle comes down, and it has dropped 23% year-over-year, and the price of operating the car and not having to go to the gas station and being able to 'fill it up' for much less and more conveniently, honestly, I think it's going to sell itself."

She added, "People love their cars. And I think they'll love their EVs, too."