If they didn't want them on the lot and don't want to sell them they would have no need to have a sales pitch for them. There is no reason to hype up a product you don't sell and/or don't plan to sell.
Current EV owners poll
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As a salesman myself, EV's are not doing anything close to what manufacturers anticipated when they rolled them out. For the market I am in, we do not want them at all
@VeloClone
It wasn't included in your first post that the salesman hates evs. I thought he was trying to sell you a new one instead.
Why they don't have them on the lot is still a mystery for me.
It wasn't included in your first post that the salesman hates evs. I thought he was trying to sell you a new one instead.
Why they don't have them on the lot is still a mystery for me.
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Truthfully I do not have one. Usually the people that want them already know they want them, and I just help facilitate. I am also in a city where chargers are NOT prevalent, so there is not a huge market currently
The used EV market has utterly crashed so I really doubt they sell them right away; they just don't buy them.
@chuckd4735 @dirtycy @BoomerClone @3TrueFans
You are the only 4 so far…what do you have, and what are your reasons?
You are the only 4 so far…what do you have, and what are your reasons?
Just the early returns of 16 out of 20 who are happy with EV and want to buy only EV in the future destroys the Edmunds bs survey as I knew it would just from absolutely everything I've seen in an area where 25% of new cars are already EV.
This is about people who actually have one (they were excited to get one) being disappointed and not wanting another one, it's just not a common thing, the opposite is common. That they can't dream of going back.
I don’t have an EV, but aint no one gonna tell me I can’t vote in a poll, this is America.
Ditto. Honestly, I thought it was a poll asking if you would ever get an EV, mainly because I don't read, and now that I realized it isn't, I can't undo my vote.
Do you nudge customers to realize they already own a "gas station" with $1/gallon fuel unless they live in an apartment without their own meter?
There's a bogus "study" going around that 57% of EV buyers don't want to buy another EV and it basically flies in the face of pretty obvious real world experience...that only 43% of EV owners like having an EV.
So far with you and 3true saying you aren't really "NO" it looks like 89% of CF owners are happy with an EV compared to 43% in that dubious study.
I was just wondering about this. Do the cars merit these speeds as far as performance on the road? There are plenty of ways now to make any shitbox go 200 mph, but do you really want to? Are the cars around the electric motors actually built to be a "sports car?"
EDIT: Oh, I'll add to the discussion just by saying yes, if and when I buy a new car, I will consider BEV, but I haven't owned one yet. Mainly because I have to travel from Illinois to Iowa fairly regularly to see family and our daughter at ISU. We usually use my newer pickup to do that. My wife is holding on to her 2010 Highlander because it still works well and looks good, but I wouldn't trust it for 300 miles of 75mph. That's kind of the way we've always worked, we have one car for travel and the other is the grocery getter that we drive until it falls apart. So, if the next purchase fits into the grocery getter/close commute, then I'll get one.
The other problem I have is I live in an older home with a full electric box. To add a charging station to my house would be upwards of $10,000 because I would have to get a new service brought in and probably re-wire the hole house since who knows exactly how things were wired before I moved in. I've had one quote done when my wife was considering a new car and it just wasn't in the budget.
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Sorry. I just voted to see the results. I have poor reading comprehension. I got no dog on this fight and probably won’t until forced to.
True ports car are about handling and not raw acceleration IMHO.
#Miata/MGB/280Z/Boxster/924S/owner
Seems the no votes are from guys who don't even own a EV and don't want to own one. As would be expected cause they seem to go out of their way to pea in the soup in EV threads.
It’s looking like nearly 100% satisfaction among owners, same as I’ve encountered “in real life”. Far cry from the only 43% happy spin from the Emunds “study”.
I do remember one guy with an honest gripe about it in the main thread but he was like one out of 50 and it wasn’t a “never again” kind of stance.
An advantage of BEVs is you can put all the heavy batteries down low so the CG is lower. Also, you don't change the balance of the car as fuel is burned. Granted 100lbs of fuel isn't much in a 2000lb car.True ports car are about handling and not raw acceleration IMHO.
#Miata/MGB/280Z/Boxster/924S/owner
True ports car are about handling and not raw acceleration IMHO.
#Miata/MGB/280Z/Boxster/924S/owner
