[PNewling]

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

[rootusrootus]

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.

[testing22321]

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.