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Of the\u00a017.3 million cars and trucks<\/a>\u00a0sold in 2017, about 1.2%, or\u00a0200,000 of them, were EVs<\/a>. However, many dealerships appear to be\u00a0less than enthusiastic<\/a>\u00a0about selling them, leading to\u00a0poor buying experiences<\/a>\u00a0and possibly\u00a0fewer EV total sales<\/a>. There are\u00a0multiple reasons<\/a>\u00a0for this, including a lack of knowledge and longer sales time, but one major one seems to be that since EVs require\u00a0less maintenance<\/a>\u00a0than conventional vehicles, the dealership service departments stand to lose revenue.<\/p>\n While it might be a downside for dealerships, less maintenance is also one of the biggest selling points of EVs, which cost about\u00a0one-third per mile<\/a>\u00a0to drive (electricity vs. gasoline) and have significantly\u00a0fewer moving parts<\/a>. But, since\u00a0about half<\/a>\u00a0of car dealers\u2019 revenue comes from their service departments, and vehicle service is about a\u00a0$250B per year<\/a>\u00a0industry,\u00a0more EVs could mean billions of dollars in lost service revenue.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Over the recent winter break, my sister and brother in law were looking to buy their first EV. Given their rural location and lack of EV charging infrastructure, they had their eyes on a plug-in hybrid, like a Chevy Volt. However, their experience seemed almost tailored to dissuade them. They went to five dealerships, with no luck. Responses from salespeople included:<\/p>\n \u201cNoooooo! You don\u2019t want one of those, that\u2019s a dinosaur. Let me show you some cars you would rather have.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t see those around here much, and frankly don\u2019t want to look for one. We have one we get our mail with and it gets good mileage, but we\u2019re not looking to sell one.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a lot of buzz (sorry!) around how electric vehicle will soon make up a\u00a0large share of vehicle sales. While customers seeking a new EV haven\u2019t had a\u00a0lot of options to date, the range of makes and models will be\u00a0significantly expanding\u00a0in the next few dozen months as car makers roll out new lines, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,157],"tags":[44866,43912,44864,42483,42486,42484,42489,34979,19638,34980,26353,1311,6298,42491,41345,67,1009,1825,44865,44863],"views":1819,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85627,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85624\/revisions\/85627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}