I don’t know how it is now with their various electric models, but I worked at a group with a Volkswagen store when the eGolf came out, and they simply refused to sell the car or do the upgrades. Now they did later do the upgrades to add the charging stations for their Porsche store, but the eGolf wasn’t seen as worth…

In a decade will my electric car be as obsolete as an iPhone 5?

This. Car dealers don’t want EVs because they make most of their profit margin on service, not sales. They’re called stealerships for a reason - if they can’t overcharge the customer for something, or create a fault in some esoteric part of the suspension or drivetrain, they can’t make money. With EVs, the ability to…

If you can’t afford a new car, you effectively don’t exist to automakers

Let’s also not forget that dealers shot themselves in the foot with the ADM antics last year. Hell, up until ~May this year, the Ford dealer nearest to me was still putting 5k markups on non-GT Mach Es, and 15k markups on the GT variants.

It’s not really a secret that most car dealerships don’t actually like EVs. They need a lot less routine maintenance and repair than ICE vehicles which means dealers lose a lucrative source of revenue. They also require infrastructure that dealerships largely had to pay for. It’s not really a surprise that they are…

Confusion only works if you’re paying attention.

I love the fact that 20 years ago, Monona actively discouraged cyclists from riding through their community and are only now realizing that, hey, those folks on 3k bikes probably have money... Meanwhile fitchburg was like “count us in”...

“ childrens toys” lol tell that to the literal billions of people who use bikes every single day to get to school (college), work, etc.

This sounds like the NJ side of the Hudson river across from NYC. I used to live in Jersey City and later in Weehawken and the entire area had atrocious accommodations for cyclists.  The dedicated bike lanes last for a quarter of a mile and then turn into 18" wide hard shoulders and then sidewalks and then the right…

Extremely strong username/post synergy here.

So you want to do a murder, but you just need a very thin justification. Not cool, I think you should probably shut up.

Or, learn how to be a good driver.  It’s not that fuckin’ hard bro.

Stupid comment of the year candidate right here. Many people use bicycles to commute/get around so that won’t work. And sure a twenty five pound bike with a rider is more dangerous than a 2 ton vehicle 

So you’re the asshole that I always had to jump onto the sidewalk to avoid.

No, ban cars instead.  We are talking about the midwest, those folks could use the exercise.  

I’m assuming this is a joke, because no one could legitimately hold such an absurd position.  

No.

lol

UGH. One of the communities near me did a similar thing where they had sidewalks that would alternate between bike path + curb and then 50 foot section of sidewalk on both sides of the road to “calm traffic.” The sidewalk would be in the same place as the bike path was for the last couple hundred yards. And since, as…