'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs
'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs

'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs

This just in: Old Boys Club doesn't want to learn new technology, and would rather lie about new technology so they can keep hawking the same bullshit they've scammed decades of Americans into buying.
Seriously, that's not just that they don't know and don't care to know, that's straight up "we don't care about this newfangled technology so much that we're literally going to fucking gaslight you about it in hopes you don't know enough to know better."
I guess it's not that far removed from the lies car dealers usually tell, but I mean, god damn fucking just gaslighting customers.
Fuck Dealerships. As much as Tesla sucks because of Elon Musk, I do hope their plan to sell cars directly to consumers pans out and other car makers start following suit as opposed to keeping these fucking grifting ass middle men in the game.
I figure it has more to do with the fact that the ICE car comes with a lifetime of engine and other maintenance that the dealership is looking to cash in on long after the warranty is expired. Even within the warranty, EVs don't need oil changes. Just brakes and tires, which are done much less frequently. And after the warranty, it's a long list of minor repairs to engine components, not to mention supporting all the emission control stuff. It's a gravy train and they don't want to get off.
That's a good point. They make their money on service not sales
Many states actually have laws that ban Tesla from selling directly. More have laws limiting the number of stores that a manufacturer can have.
Only 14 allow unrestricted direct sales, and many of them only apply to companies that either don’t already have franchise agreements or only sell EVs.
Manufacturers would LOVE to cut out the middlemen and sell direct today.