Nearly 4,000 dealerships around the United States have signed a petition to U.S. President Joe Biden asking for a more careful approach to vehicle electrification.
The current strategy proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that EVs need to make up 60% of all vehicles sold by 2030. The same indicator is expected to reach 67% just two years after that. According to many car sales businesses throughout the country, these goals are unsustainable and dangerous.
In his address, Mickey Anderson, CEO of Baxter Auto Group, said that the whole electrification agenda was highly politicized and left actual car enthusiasts without the right to express their own opinion, Motor1 reports.
In the letter to the President, the dealerships point out that they support the general move from internal combustion engines towards electric motors, but cannot generate enough demand for the current supply. The sheer enthusiasm of early EV adopters, which carried the sales in this market segment last year, has all but ground to a halt as most customers who wanted electric cars had bought one and the rest weren’t swayed by the pricing or other characteristics.
As a result, the warehouses are filling up with unsold EVs and the situation threatens to get worse unless corrections are made in the current strategy.