Wasn't there a story like a week ago about dealers sabotaging EV sales?

They refuse to learn about them and actively direct people to ICE vehicles. No shit they are having a 'hard time' selling them. They have tried less than nothing to sell them.

This year, 18% of all automobile sales worldwide were electric cars. In the US, that's about 7%.

I'm not buying an EV not because of lack of infrastructure or lack of interest, but because the product sucks.

I'm not buying a gas car either for the same product sucking reason, and an active desire to never purchase a gas car again.

"And then not only are EVs more expensive, but their own salespeople are untrained. They don't even know how to answer most of the questions they get. A lot of them have 100–200 percent turnover of their sales staff in a given year," Reigersman told me.

This seems not good. I might have been slightly more sympathetic to the dealers before reading this?

I agree with them but not for the reasons they would like, less pushing of EVs more pushing of good public transportation.

I just leased an Ioniq 6 from a Hyundai dealership end of October. The salesperson was great, but she didn’t know anything about EVs, especially their own. She even admitted it was the first one she’s sold.

I went back a week ago and found the same 5 Ioniq 6’s sitting there. I’m pretty sure they’ll stay there for quite a while.