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I still think it's starting to reach a saturation level on sales from the early adopters. And that's part of the sales "slump" or slowdown or whatever you want to call it. Everyone tries to "project" sales based on previous sales and intended demand based on useless-after-one-day surveys of people that may be interested in purchasing. People don't tend to flock to something if they still have looming questions that seemingly go unanswered.

And at least some EV marketing doesn't answer those questions. Or doesn't want to. A very affluent, but miserly, neighbor lady went to look at an EV because she's moving into town to be closer to relatives and she wouldn't have to travel far. She's getting up there in age, so she was considering buying an EV because the dealership said she could save all sorts of money on gas. Her reasoning is her golf cart was electric and she loved the fact she didn't have to buy gas for it. The dealership told her about all the great things of owning an EV. Yet when I asked her about her new garage and if it was set up for an EV charger or at least capable, she said they never mentioned that. After I explained to her that it might cost her $2K-up to install one, she asked me how much gas would that buy for her current car. Can't say the EV dealer lied to her, but obviously didn't tell her things she would need to know/do to make the switch. The holding back of information is the same as not telling the whole truth.

Even with incentives, there's a huge trust factor or even fear factor depending on your glass half full/empty point of view that hasn't been addressed/satisfied for many people to feel comfortable with switching to an EV. And when headlines in the media say the big 3 is waffling a little on EV production, most don't look past the headlines which solidifies a mistrust even further.

There's the dismal economy in general, material shortages, labor shortages, strike hangover, and lots of other obstacles that just compounds the issues. I ponder that it's not so much a glut of EVs sitting on lots, but rather the opposite- hardly anything is on the lots. Can't test drive one, it's already sold before it left the factory. At least around here that is the case. It almost makes you suspect if there IS a car or truck still sitting on the lot not being sold.