• Troggie42@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I am going to try to link an article about why this is but IDK if it’ll run afoul of the various rules about links and politics here. It’s a Salon article about someone who went to the NADA conference to see what dealers were doing with the EV transition and what they saw there.

    Here’s the link

    if it gets nuked or something, let’s just say that a Certain Political Ideology common in car dealership owners is EXTREMELY Anti-EV on an institutional level. There’s an anecdote about someone the author talked to near the end that said that dealers are going as far as declining to sell fords any more at all rather than do the EV transition to Ford’s standards. Grim stuff.

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      1 year ago

      a Certain Political Ideology common in car dealership owners is EXTREMELY Anti-EV on an institutional level. 

      I wonder what will happen when this ideology wins the next elections.

      There is a good chance the only EV brand remaining will be the one whose CEO solidly supports said ideology.

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        1 year ago

        honestly? even if the the last guy wins next time (I’d say his name but I don’t know if it trips automod to delete this for politics) and decides to outlaw electric cars, I don’t think he’d carve out an exception for Tesla, he seems to not like Elon very much, which is extremely funny to me tbh