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Electric vehicles are hitting a road block: Car dealers (wapo.st)
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Some customers say auto dealers have steered them away from buying electric cars and trucks

Been true for quite a while โ€” dealers often refuse to stock them because they don't need as many repairs

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[โ€“] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, given some localities starting to have laws to the effect that cars sold have to be electric after a certain date, and some manufacturers stopping development on new ICE engines with the intent of moving entirely to EVs eventually, they're not going to have a choice some day, if they want to keep selling cars.