ACar Dealers won't Sell

Not mentioned in the article, electric vehicles hurt their backend business, like oil changes, etc.

 

a volt would require the same maint. as a gasser, and yet, the chevy dealer didn't want to seek it. there is no range issue, no need to worry that it might not suit the customers needs. so what the hangup?

 

Take away Ca. and sports-car Tesla's and there is not too much Plug_in action.

So Plug-In America, Tesla, California, and now NYTimes complaining that all states/dealers are not pushing these cars in all 50 states like CA/Tesla is. Basically the push is on to try to increase penetration.

The EV lobby has shifted from the prior argument that the Plug-ins are widely (many states) flying off the shelves (optimism in an attempt to coax sales) to now admitting there is a market-penetration issue outside CA and a few states.

Attempt here to blame it on the dealers, in the hopes public will sympathize with the Plug_in lobby and it's new "fight" (Plug_in America's word not mine). But it's not the dealers, the sales have seemed to depend mostly on large $$$Support of plug-ins on the state level.

I visited New York this year and I was mystified how few even Prii on the road. Nothing like north Virginia, out on LI anyways, and they have the LIE HOV hybrid incentive pushing sales at least a little.

 

nissan is really the only dealer with a viable ev, and i don't know how hard each dealer/salesman is 'pushing'. (funny how dealers think of selling as pushing) mercedes, vdub, fiat, mitsi, bmw and others, i don't know what they are thinking as manufacturers, but it's not selling more ev's.

at two bucks a gallon, we're currently at a stalemate anyway, and it could be a while. in dog years anyway.

 

Maybe a Volt does require the same maintenance as my gasser. The rest of Chevy's lineup still needs more repairs and maintenance.

 

that's probably true, the volt seems to be built like a tank. i know chevy dealers were initially reluctant, but i doubt that's the case anymore.

 

what is the honda ev in the article?

 

...IIRC it is the Honda Accord PHEV which I think has sold a few hundred in Ca.

 

and then they stopped making it because dealers hid them all behind their buildings.

 

i'm not sure the author knows the difference between an ev and a phev.

 

...they were highly sought after, right? So saving them for friends.