How Crazy Prices and Yearslong Wait Times Could Doom the Electric-Car Experiment

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How Crazy Prices and Yearslong Wait Times Could Doom the Electric-Car Experiment
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A massive shortfall of inventory has turned the experience of purchasing electric and hybrid vehicles into a battle over scarce resources. nickbilton reports:

of all new vehicles has plummeted by 70% over the past three years: Car dealers had 3.4 million vehicles available for sale in April 2019; by this April, that number had dropped to just over one million. The consumer-research company J.D. Power reported in Aprilthe average number of days a new car sits at a dealership before it’s purchased was on pace to be only three weeks, compared to 49 days just a year prior.

AlixPartners. “Due to multiple global factors, the E.V. market is currently experiencing some unusual bumps,” saysexecutive director of Veloz, a nonprofit advocate for electric cars. “Automakers are working hard to ramp up production to their pre-COVID levels but are being faced with ongoing worker shortages and supply constraints.

Often these economics work themselves out in short order. We’re already seeing some of the gas-car prices falling back to reality, but there’s no end in sight for consumers who want to buy electric or hybrid vehicles. The war in Ukraine has juiced gas prices, which in turn has highlighted the benefits of electric vehicles.

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