Posted on 07/17/2023 5:42:54 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
"Dealers not just in Michigan but also in New York...have said 'Listen we can't find any interest in EVs,'" says @laurenfix . "We're not beating up on EVs. We're just talking about the fact that there's an infrastructure problem."
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Yes, customers have no interest in them. The EVs cost too d$%& much, for one thing.
Ha. Wake me when the military makes an all electric main battle tank and maybe then I will consider an EV reliable transport.
President Gavin Newsom is going to make us all ride busses while Mayor Pete gets to drive his EV.
I’m in Michigan. Saw one Tesla at the front of a Ford dealer’s used car lot.
Made the joke here it was between a Smart car and a Pacer.
Dealer sponsors small annual 1950s-1960s classic car meet with refreshments.
Such beautiful vehicles in those days.
Haha - you then show the one single guy on the entire planet, who is making the most money on supplying EVs
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Just have to allow plug in outlets on battlefields (with very long extension cords).
RE: Wake me
If you are napping in first class in an all electric jumbo jet in the air I’ll be on the ground at the time.
exactly
“Yes, customers have no interest in them.”
Then why is Tesla growing at 40% YOY?
Ignorance.
Rich white women.
Just wait until the recession and then they’ll all be blogging about how they can’t resell the car because the battery yadda yadda yadda
No, they don’t where there is no infrastructure to charge them. It is a pump and dump scheme and will be called as such when it finally collapses. You read it in this post first.
Infrastructure problems is not no interest in EVs.
And lots of other EVs ain’t Tesla.
Tesla makes an exciting, forward thinking, wickedly fast vehicle.
The other manufacturers are still trying to straddle ICE design morphed into EV.
It doesn’t translate well.
And it shows. Crappy cars, too expensive, no charging solutions and too expensive.
Tesla chargers are in Shopping Mall parking lots, park & ride commuter locations and going up all over.
Not for everyone, in every circumstance.
But great for those that want one.
I know a Ford salesman. He’s a real Ford propagandist. Normally he’s about 90% bull concerning how wonderful every Ford product is. He grumbled that they had to agree to take 20 Mach-e’s in order to get 100 F-150’s. He said, “There’s no market for them. We can’t give them away.”
“Just wait until the recession “
What recession?
A personal story of some interest.....I live in a small town in rural southern Illinois, We have one car dealership, Chevy, Buick, GMC. He has sold Cadillacs there for some 4 decades.
When I was in the last time for a bit of work on my Cadillac SRX I noticed no Caddy sign. I immediately asked the service manager/co owner what was up. He said they were no longer a Cadillac dealer because in order to continue to be one they had to “buy in” for 250K. He said that to represent grossly overpriced ($100,000) electric vehicles that wouldn’t sell and have to pay a quarter of a million dollars for the privilege was and no brainer. He told them to go pound salt.
In addition to high cost, EVs have short range, long charge times, lack of charging stations, & if you park them in your attached garage there is a chance they will burn your house down.
Besides, real men don’t drive EV trucks.
Charging infrastructure and range will be the death of them. Consumers will gravitate to hybrids where Toyota is king to combat Democrats making gas costly by choking off fossil fuels until they solve the range and infrastructure issue.
Of course all the media outlets are saying “it’s the infrastructure!” because that means more and more Government programs and spending. Infrastructure is NOT the main reason. No one wants to sit around for 2 hours like a sitting duck at a charging station.
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