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PNewlingyesterday at 11:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why did the dealerships not want them? (Honest question, I have no idea about any of this)


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rootusrootustoday at 2:28 AM

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.

testing22321yesterday at 11:14 PM

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.