The discussion of EV’s having selling issues is one of the many pitfalls of monopolizing. A lot of people want an EV but the process to get one is an elitist nightmare. There is 3-4 brands and the auto industry knows the catalytic customer is and will always be a lick. It almost feels like the process to switch to EV culture is unwillingness of the auto industry to allow the consumer the right to have something that works.The perks and the benefits to get one with the incentives is a headache.
Gas cars are unpredictable, repairs for used cars are not regulated, and investing in a car is basically a budget of a small needy child for many. Owning a vehicle in itself is a $20,000 yearly investment and EV’s were supposed to resolve that.
The average purchase of GOOD one is $50K plus and the cars everyone wants don’t yet exists in EV format. Even the cheap ones are poorly made and can barely handle a stiff snowstorm. That being said, they are wanted. But what’s the motivation for the restrictions to access?
Low to Barely Existent Knowledge
Many people still dont understand how their gas vehicle works. When going to purchase one, the experiences faced was the dealer themselves not knowing anything about the questions a potential buyer has about how to fit one in their life. Many car salesmen don’t know where to charge. When implementing with the electric company many infrastructures are not prepared to sync up the vehicles or even say yes, this is how much your eleltric bill will cost if you charge at home. Most walk away not knowing how to maintenance the car and many sales people give off Amway energy. They’re not tech people let alone know how to instruct tech support. The industries are a bunch of friends hooking each other up, based on the motivation merely on the sale, not the instruction to a completely cultural shift in US transportation.
Invite-Only Culture
Where’s a charging station if I get an EV? Whats the fastest charging station, I just got an EV? Basically the few EV drivers I’ve encountered have been rude AF. The notion of not telling other’s anything means its a clique and if you don’t have one, many EV drivers have been very secretive to where, how, and what is needed to charge. Which tells me a lot of people might be in their feelings if this is open to public consumption. If there is a presumption you simply don’t look like you can afford one or if the car sales person feels like you dont deserve one, be ready for push back on buying one. Its not even clear if the dealer brands made a choice to have selective owners of EV but, the selectiveness by the sales people are clearly affecting the bottom line. And the prevention of even cheap foreign EV’s in the new US policies, don’t even allow US sales for the Spirit Airlines of EV’s. Not even the Saturn Neon special.
Ego Over EVs
I first noticed this mentality with Macs vs PC culture in the 2000s. Many PC tech’s loathed Macs not because of tech purity or tech hatred but because they simply didn’t have the patience to really know how to use one. Once it was clear the clique of computer usage wasn’t at their grasp, there was almost a scarlet lettering of macs and some college students even were banned from using them in fear of ego’s being crushed. Now with EV’s many of the now 5+ year drivers still don’t understand their own cars. And as more manufacturers bring on easier interfaces there appears an access bias for those EV users that don’t participate in the fraudulent presentations of brand purity based on appearing like they’re smarter than everyone else.
Good luck getting a straight answer from these types of drivers and that alone ruins the likability of even wanting the hassle of getting an EV. If the car dealers don’t want everyone to have one, the drivers’ themselves bully drivers they don’t feel worthy of owning one. And the mechanics of operating one is purposely being limited, the market for EV’s is another failed gold mine of a wasted US consumer.