Pretty much everyone and every auto manufacturer across the globe (with the exception of Tesla and nobody believes anything China says) has been singing songs of lamentation and mourning for their electric vehicle sales. I’ve posted bunches about them in relation to Green transitions, safety, infrastructure, etc., and the fact that it just plain looks like your average Joe doesn’t want anything to do with them as his primary vihicle.

Regardless of what Wall Street, industry experts, and manufacturers tell them, the Biden administration keeps plunging along, deaf and mostly dumb, into a world where everyone drives an EV with no choice in the matter. Much as the case with their insistence that the problem with the economy is our perception of it not their economic ineptitude, federal EV mandates remain rock solid even as states around the country (and globally – witness the UK) start to think, “Maybe not so fast,” pushing back or ditching the same mandates entirely.

Connecticut Governor dumps 2035 EV mandate.

"Common sense has prevailed."https://t.co/Buf7bN1Adq pic.twitter.com/lMYihqqTxt

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 28, 2023

The one group the unicorn fart, business experience bereft (Was there ever one REAL “job” held between any of them?) Green cultists in the White House hadn’t heard from were the middle men in all this.

Dang if they haven’t heard from them now.

And the word is “nyet” in capitals and underlined.

A group of US auto dealers is calling on the Biden administration to pull back on federal regulations that will mandate that two out of every three vehicles sold in the US in 2032 will be battery electric.
The car dealer group, calling itself EV Voice of the Customer, wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden released Tuesday that most US car buyers are not now interested in buying battery electric vehicles — even with government incentives — and the US should not force them to do so.

“The reality,” the letter said, “is that electric vehicle demand today is not keeping up with the large influx of BEVs arriving at our dealerships prompted by the current regulations. BEVs are stacking up on our lots.”

“Stacking up on our lots” translates to “costing us a buttload of money.” The bottom line for “business” – the term a total abstraction to any Biden WH occupant – is money. That’s the first consideration in the letter. No one is wandering their car lots salivating over the chance to save $7500 on a $50,000+ vehicle they didn’t want to begin with. They’re not even looking at them.

“Where you park yer pickups?”

The second part to the missive from the businessmen who own the dealerships is the delineation of the practical drawbacks to EVs, which, again, not a single soul in the WH seems to have considered – or in states like California for that matter.

They do a pretty good job of laying it all out. It’s not MAGA MAGA MAGA knuckle dragging Luddites, as every objection is always painted.

Sometimes it’s as simple as “Where are you going to plug it in?” Too often, the letter points out, the answer is “Nowhere.”

…“As many as half of all Americans don’t even have a garage,” [Baxter Auto Group President Mickey] Anderson said, making EVs an unrealistic option for most of them. A US Census Bureau survey found that two-thirds of US housing units had a garage or carport in 2021, though this did not include cooperatives or condominiums.

There’s also the performance and range issues I’ve highlighted several times – too hot, too cold, or too heavy. Those things don’t bother an ICE but they can raise hell with an EV.

What they’re saying: Customers cite a variety of reasons for avoiding EVs, Anderson and other dealers told Axios.

• They’re too expensive, buyers have no place to charge at home, and public charging is too time-consuming, for example.

• Dealers say some customers have even traded in their EVs, complaining their driving range was affected by towing a trailer or even extreme temperatures. Tires on an EV wear out much faster, too, customers complain.

Not to mention people can do math. We’re not saving squat for the planet by driving them.

Still think you're saving the planet? FFS 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/OZyLiUsiRn

— Andrew Padgett 🌸 (@ajpadgett) November 27, 2023

Customers just aren’t interested, Jack.

🧵Despite subsidies to car companies to make electric vehicles, and tax credits for drivers to buy them, only 7% of new vehicle sales are electric vehicles, compared with Biden’s goal of 60% in 2030 and 66% in 2032. https://t.co/WNJQ1I4p1g @Heritage @KevinRobertsTX

— Diana Furchtgott-Roth (@DFR_Economics) November 28, 2023

Then again, judging by why he thinks his polling numbers are, I don’t think POTATUS will take this L, either – no matter who’s talking to him.