Most USA dealers don't like selling EVs

[invertedspear]

Look, charging is pain in the butt in comparsion to using gasoline no matter how you slice it.

Hard disagree there my friend. The only time gas is more convenient than charging is for the driver on a long road trip. Or for people in apartments where the owner doesn't add chargers. From an industrial standpoint gas is way more inconvenient. Oil must be imported, shipped, piped, trained or trucked to a refinery where it's then piped, trained, or trucked through a massive distribution network. From a driver stand point, gas means planning to stop occasionally on my daily commute and dropping $75 or so 1-2 times a week.

Electricity already has it's fixed distribution network which makes it far easier and far cheaper to distribute everywhere it needs to be. And while the generation of electricity has some of the same downsides or source (like coal) it has many other sources (hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, etc) which do not share those inconveniences.

I'd go so far as to say EV is only a PITA compared to gas in a couple specific circumstances, but any other way you slice it BEV is superior.

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[Danface]

Hard disagree there my friend. The only time gas is more convenient than charging is for the driver on a long road trip. Or for people in apartments where the owner doesn't add chargers. From an industrial standpoint gas is way more inconvenient. Oil must be imported, shipped, piped, trained or trucked to a refinery where it's then piped, trained, or trucked through a massive distribution network. From a driver stand point, gas means planning to stop occasionally on my daily commute and dropping $75 or so 1-2 times a week.

Electricity already has it's fixed distribution network which makes it far easier and far cheaper to distribute everywhere it needs to be. And while the generation of electricity has some of the same downsides or source (like coal) it has many other sources (hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, etc) which do not share those inconveniences.

I'd go so far as to say EV is only a PITA compared to gas in a couple specific circumstances, but any other way you slice it BEV is superior.

Based on how you use the vehicle but imagine being a rentor or owning a condo not to mention traveling and need accessess to chargers vs "just going to a gas station".

 

[Jarratt]

Dealerships work best when they have the product on the lot, ready to go and can close the deal that day. Why would a salesman spend energy with a customer when they don't have the ability to make the sale and know that when the person walks out that door, they are more likely to buy from some other dealership with the vehicle they want in stock. Best case, maybe the customer eventually buys after a bunch of work to locate the vehicle they want and making a trade/shipping. etc.

So they would need a critical mass of EVs with a variety of trim levels and options and colors. Which they don't have.

Many Ford truck buyers (especially for F250 & above) are used to submitting builds and waiting at least a couple of months. Spending $70K+ makes many quite picky about configurations.

 

[Jarratt]

Just what we all knew

https://fordauthority.com/2024/08/most-american-auto-dealers-arent-thrilled-with-selling-evs/

I have been unimpressed by the incentives the mothership provides to get techs EV certified. They don't get that much more pay. Also, the dealership tech is legacy at least at my dealer where download speeds (& huge part of most EV service) take forever.

There's also a cultural issue. The techs understand ICE. Especially at the Master level, there's a prejudice around this tech and the attendant learning curve.. For example, the 2 EV certified techs at my dealership never lose an opportunity to rant about how awful regen braking is

 

[invertedspear]

Based on how you use the vehicle but imagine being a rentor or owning a condo not to mention traveling and need accessess to chargers vs "just going to a gas station".

Did you even read my reply after I said I disagree. Those are the 2 concessions I specifically stated.

 

[Danface]

Did you even read my reply after I said I disagree. Those are the 2 concessions I specifically stated.

Then I guess we agree

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