If they want to move them off the lot, I suggest having a fire sale.
People are smacking themselves on the head and saying “I could have had a V8”.
I live only a couple of miles from a Tesla dealership and the number of cars there just keeps on increasing every time I drive by. They’re practically out of room to store them now.
The secrets are coming out on those white elephants.
No one wants a ticking time bomb in their garage that may or may not spontaneously combust whether it’s charging or not.
Got a friend that has a salesman friend at a local dealership. The other day he asked how EV sales were going, the salesman said they can’t give ‘em away.
This was not the scenario many people predicted.
Actually, lots of people predicted this scenario. The ones that ignored it are the greedy politicians and investors that have and are pushing these things on everyone, regardless of their ability to do what they say the EVs can do. They’re POSs, pure and simple.
The savior of the world, isn’t he...nothing but a snake oil salesman
Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints .... https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/
I’m not buying an EV. Nope.
We still haven’t seen TeslaGator here in awhile.
I can start a fire with a few gallons of diesel a lot cheaper than an EV.
It is articles like this that will run the Bee out of business.
Just program them to drive into the ocean. If they are close enough.
Maybe they need to hire Dylan Mulvaney to help them out.
“All of this is to say that a bunch of unused EVs isn’t just a financial headache for auto dealers and motor companies...”
Let them eat the bloody things. Dealers are a bunch of thieving shysters anyhow.
I’m hearing that it’s not safe to have an EV in the garage and it’s not safe from theft keeping them outside.
Maybe because:
They are still to expensive for most
The people who wanted one already bought one
People don’t want to burn their house
People have heard to many horror stories about reliability and warranty
People learned the ugly truth about range
The trill is gone
The hype has worn thin
Sanity has returned, strike that.
What could it be? Inquiring minds want to know.
They thought we were THAT stupi.
you’d have to be a moron to spend $50k on a vehicle whose battery will be dead within the next 5 years... the replacement of which will cost at least $30k.
sorry, i’ll stick with my ‘old fashioned’ car
Screw the planet.
The Lightning is a joke
I live in car-country LA. I have a hybrid Accord. It’s perfect for the available conditions - lower speeds, lots of stops, freeway traffic, gives me 50+ mpg, day in, day out, normal sized sedan interior, etc. Bought new in 2017 and was priced within a few hundred $ of the gas version. [Touring package - basically all factory options that are offered - only version that was hybrid]. Paid about $34k out the door.
It works for me because I have no need to transport materials [groceries, yes, 3 inch pipe, no], tow stuff, and rarely go on road trips [when I do, I drive my gas powered Jeep].
Its a good technology for the right conditions, but it wouldn’t work outside metro areas / long cold periods [ie 90% of the country] and anyone in trades or transport, and certainly not commercial.
But I firmly believe there’s room for both and advantages to both, from my own personal use and experience.
Never had an EV. The initial cost + charging & range make it a bad econ choice with current technology, so not considered.
See, rational discussion without politics is possible.