Originally Posted by
Pump Scout
I can say with tremendous certainty that EV's, and even conventional hybrids, are not going to be embraced by all of the American public any time soon. I can see an adjustment happening in bigger cities. That's a different market than the 10000-20000 population small towns that are all over the nation. Some of it's based on infrastructure. There are zero charge stations in the city I live in. I sell very few hybrids of any sort here. One town over, I can find homes for those cars. College town. Even there, though, there's only a handful of charging station locations.
We even tried to get the local police department to make the switch to the hybrid Explorer police vehicle. Part of it was the gas savings, especially given how much police cars idle. Part of it was that they'd actually get a little more power than a standard engine. The pitch did not go well.