I think that there is some truth to this. I would say that, based on my discussions with some OEMs, even when there is a strong will to sell EVs, the dealers need to be trained correctly, and that can be a challenge and the source of a great deal of internal frustration.
I wouldn’t fault them for not producing enough unless you couple that with “and they immediately sell out and people cannot buy them.” A lot full of unsold cars is the quickest way to slow an alt fuel vehicle program. I saw that happen when Honda produced too many CNG cars. When demand became huge the following several years, they were over cautious and didn’t produce nearly enough to meet huge demand. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Mar 26, 2020, at 1:06 PM, Mike C via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personal opinion only: It looks to me like GM and Ford know how to build > electric cars, they just don’t seem to have any idea how to sell them. As > long as they only see EVs as a threat to existing ICE auto sales, they won’t > bother to properly market them. For the most part, dealers pretty much don’t > seem to want them around at all. Automakers build cars the dealers want, > then the dealers sell them to the public. Tesla works without this “filter”. > Unfortunately, dealer agreements probably mean GM and Ford can’t do this. > > Mike Chancey > evalbum.com > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: evln via EV > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: evln > Subject: [EVDL] GM,Ford’s 5%-EV-production-plans are a bad-joke on u.s. > > > > [related > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Legacy-auto-makers-talk-the-talk-but-tp4696813.html > ] > > https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gm-ford-ev-production-plans-leaked/ > GM and Ford’s EV production plans for the US have leaked, and they are a > joke > March 26, 2020 ... despite the grand gestures and proclamations of an > electric car-centric future from American automakers General Motors and > Ford, the two companies’ actual production plans for North America are still > centered on large, internal combustion-powered vehicles ... have been > insisting that they are all-in on an electric car push ... 5% of Ford and > GM’s combined vehicle production in North America, and less than Tesla’s > output in 2019 from its one factory in Fremont, CA ... > > > (fox-n-friends are anti-EV source, friendly w/ the frik-n-frack fed > beavis&buttheads against EVs, &warm to koch fo$$il, &sweet on the saudi > profit$) > https://www.foxnews.com/auto/ford-gm-electric-vehicles-sales > Ford and GM won't be selling many electric vehicles soon ... > 2020-03-26 ... automakers would love to get a little of that Tesla magic and > money ... trying to play to Wall Street, which thinks the future is all > about electric vehicles ... > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts view: > http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > https://mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200326/96b37617/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
