Comment by pas
1 month ago
the dealerships did not want them, this already made it unlikely to succeed (towing range mania was the other thing)
1 month ago
the dealerships did not want them, this already made it unlikely to succeed (towing range mania was the other thing)
Why did the dealerships not want them? (Honest question, I have no idea about any of this)
There is a hypothesis that dealers disincentivized salespeople from selling EVs due to a lower expected amount of service department revenue in the future. I work in the industry close enough to get a whiff of that and I never heard anything more than speculation.
Dealerships only make money on “the back end”, which is servicing.
Any vehicle that requires less servicing makes them less money, so they don’t want to sell them.