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0 pointsstcredzero4y ago0 comments

The car manufactures have nothing to lose from the loss of oil changes, only the independent dealers.

The dealers' incentives are going to play some significant role in legacy EV sales. VW dealers were actively steering buyers away from VW's EVs. Also YouTuber "Tesla Economist" has been doing an informal survey by calling legacy auto dealerships and inquiring about EVs. Apparently, legacy auto dealers are now marking up EVs by $2000, $4000, in one case by $13000! (The Ford dealerships are steering callers towards EVs now, so at least Ford has that going for them.)

The loss of oil changes is going to have some not-insignificant effect on the auto servicing industry. Clearly!

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bluGill4y ago

EVs obey supply and demand, they only mark cars up if they can sell them that way.. they will of course steer people to what makes more money for them.

fomine34y ago

I don't hear much "Car dealers sucks" argument from outside US. I'd like to see other countries' situation.

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