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Car dealers falsely claim to be ‘voice of customers’ in push for slower electric car adoption
https://electrek.co/2023/11/29/car-dealers-falsely-claim-voice-customers-push-slower-electric-car-adoption/
Almost 4,000 car dealerships in the US banded together in a new lobbying effort to ask the government to slow down the adoption of electric vehicles.
They even falsely claim to be “the voice of customers” in this Luddite effort.
A coalition representing 3,882 dealerships in the US has signed a letter sent to President Biden to lobby for a slower electric vehicle mandate.
The letter starts like this:
We are auto dealers from across the country who collectively sell every major brand in the U.S. We are small businesses employing thousands of Americans. We are deeply committed to the customers we serve and the communities where we operate, which is why we are asking you to slow down your proposed regulations mandating battery electric vehicle (BEV) production and distribution.
It doesn’t start very well since there’s a lie in the very first sentence. These auto dealers don’t represent “every major brand” in the US.
However, what those dealers are leaving out of their argument is that BEVs are not the only vehicles sitting unsold on their lots.
In fact, new-vehicle inventory is at a two-year high, according to Cox Automotive research.
As of the start of November, new-vehicle inventory volume in the US was sitting at a record 2.4 million units. It is safe to say that those are mostly gasoline-powered vehicles since the inventory level is currently higher than the number of EVs that the US will produce all year.
The truth is that the current interest rates have affected all automotive sales, EVs or otherwise.
It makes it so much more frustrating that these dealers are making this false argument while claiming that they are the “voice of customers.”
https://electrek.co/2023/11/29/car-dealers-falsely-claim-voice-customers-push-slower-electric-car-adoption/
Almost 4,000 car dealerships in the US banded together in a new lobbying effort to ask the government to slow down the adoption of electric vehicles.
They even falsely claim to be “the voice of customers” in this Luddite effort.
A coalition representing 3,882 dealerships in the US has signed a letter sent to President Biden to lobby for a slower electric vehicle mandate.
The letter starts like this:
We are auto dealers from across the country who collectively sell every major brand in the U.S. We are small businesses employing thousands of Americans. We are deeply committed to the customers we serve and the communities where we operate, which is why we are asking you to slow down your proposed regulations mandating battery electric vehicle (BEV) production and distribution.
It doesn’t start very well since there’s a lie in the very first sentence. These auto dealers don’t represent “every major brand” in the US.
However, what those dealers are leaving out of their argument is that BEVs are not the only vehicles sitting unsold on their lots.
In fact, new-vehicle inventory is at a two-year high, according to Cox Automotive research.
As of the start of November, new-vehicle inventory volume in the US was sitting at a record 2.4 million units. It is safe to say that those are mostly gasoline-powered vehicles since the inventory level is currently higher than the number of EVs that the US will produce all year.
The truth is that the current interest rates have affected all automotive sales, EVs or otherwise.
It makes it so much more frustrating that these dealers are making this false argument while claiming that they are the “voice of customers.”
