In the on-going saga of how wrong-headed the push to have electric vehicles REPLACE internal combustion vehicles ASAP really is, it's no surprise that many car dealers are opting out of the whole EV mess.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011418/evs-are-dividing-dealers
Below -- one reason (other than the hundreds of thousands of dollars in upgrades needed at a dealership to sell and service EVs) that dealers may be "hesitant" to make the EV plunge is suggested by the example below:
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2024-chevy-blazer-ev-long-term-faults.html
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It’s always frustrating to see a warning light on your car’s dashboard. So imagine how we felt when we got eight different warning messages from our long-term 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV over the course of one day. Now consider that our Blazer EV, which we bought less than two months ago, has fewer than 2,000 miles on its odometer. In just one trip from Los Angeles to San Diego and back, our Blazer EV went from perfectly fine to totally on the fritz. And that's only the beginning.
The recent trip from Los Angeles to San Diego — to attend a media event for the Blazer EV, funnily enough — started uneventfully. But then the window switches refused to work. And then the infotainment display completely melted down, stuck in an infinite loop of shutting off, turning on, displaying a map centered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and turning back off again. It did this until we pulled off the freeway and restarted the car. All was well after the reset, but an hour later, it happened again.
Then things got worse.
. . . Considering this all occurred over the span of about 24 hours, we knew we had to get the Blazer into service. But the next day, none of the error messages displayed. A bit flummoxed, we took our Blazer EV to the dealership to see if all of this was a red herring or if something really was wrong. What we got back from the dealer was alarming: the single longest list of major faults we at Edmunds have ever seen on a new car.
As of this writing, our Blazer EV has 23 different issues that need fixing, more than a few of which we consider serious. The car has been at the dealer for two weeks so far, and we still don't know when or how the fixes, repairs or updates will be implemented.
And you ain't takin' your hybrid or even to an independent shop 'cause the won't touch them except maybe to put air in the tires.
True. And as it happens, hybrids tend to be the most likely to have problems, which makes sense because they have BOTH an internal combustion engine AND a battery electric system. At least the batteries are smaller than in a typical full EV.
When the electric part shits the bed you can run the golf cart gas engine until that part dies from over use since it duty cycle was not ment for full time use. Of course then it will have zero residual value. The kicker is that they probably need to charge people to dispose of old EVs since you can't really part them out.