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When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
If I look at what I've spent over the last 3 years on service/parts comparing our ICE to our BEV Kia Telluride-5 service appointments (every 7-8k miles)=~$850 not counting new tires Tesla-5 tire rotations=~$240. One was done for free at Discount Tire I don't see how this isn't a huge... -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
I thought I read that 50% of dealerships(new) profits came from service. Does that sound right? -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
This is very confusing to me on multiple levels. 1. Subsidies in the U.S. were dropped, so China EV sales went down 30%. Please explain. 2. "The US subsidies gave manufacturers a false target cost to build EV's". How so? The only vehicles that the Big 3 that qualified for the tax rebate were... -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
To legally register and drive any vehicle in the United States, it must pass two strict federal checkpoints: The DOT (Department of Transportation): The vehicle must comply with all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). This dictates everything from crash-test structural integrity to... -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
Do you think the owners would have any impact on what the salespeople try to push? Or inventory? -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
How much of the BEV slowdown is actually the fault of dealerships? Nearly half of dealership profits come from the service bay, so there is zero incentive to sell a car that doesn't need regular maintenance. If I own a lot, I'm not going to tell my team to sell a BEV when a gas or hybrid vehicle... -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
American companies shouldn't be bailed out when they are not making their cars in the U.S. If you want bailouts, 100% of the cars you sell in the U.S., need to be made in the U.S. If China wants to sell in the U.S., they need to do what the Japanese did in the 80's, and build them in the U.S... -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
Almost always makes the most financial sense to keep what you have. -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
Free article EV Future in America for Big Three -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
Another positive study: https://teslamagz.com/electric-vehicles/only-0-5-percent-of-ev-drivers-plan-to-buy-a-gas-car-next-survey-finds/ "To get these numbers, researchers gathered responses from 4,205 participants between January 21 and March 31, 2026. The group included 3,809 current electric... -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
I saw one in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and that's the first time in probably a decade that I didn't know the vehicle i was looking at until I got close enough to read the brand, and still didn't know anything about it. -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
"“Only 18% of EV owners would consider a gas or hybrid today, and that’s down from 73% a year ago.” -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
That makes total sense. -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
Did you factor in vehicle depreciation compared to buying a similar new ICE vehicle? -
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
A lot of it depends where your fuse box is located. In our previous house, it was in the basement, in our new house it's in the garage. The old house was $2,500 to install a sub panel in the garage, which ran to the basement box. I had them do a sub panel that was capable of charging two units...