“No one’s buying our overpriced EVs! *sob*” - Mazda

I was at a Mazda dealership ~10 yrs ago and the salesmen were absolute anti-EV, conspiracy-spouting, misinformation filled doofuses. It’s good that they’ll be out of business.

Ford seemed like they were making competitive products for a while. Now they’ll be relegated to the dustbin of automotive history.

Congrats on the 6. Any EV is better than a gasser

Prices may go down or level off in the short term. However as demand drops, there won’t be enough volume to sustain the infrastructure overhead for oil mining and refining. They need a minimum volume to be profitable. As demand continues to drop, some of them will be forced to close down, which reduces supply, which raises prices. Eventually oil will be more of a niche product where specialty suppliers charge high prices.

It’s important if you’re a service tech lugging equipment around. The stations need to be maintained

I heard an NPR report that said CA has 3% BEVs while TX has 2%. Hybrids not included in those figures. Very surprising to see that CA has only 50% more BEVs considering how CA and TX are on the extreme ends of the political spectrum.

Edit: It may have been 2% in Travis county (Austin), which sounds more realistic

“People aren’t buying our overpriced, old tech cars. Blame it on demand!”

This might be their way to prevent scalpers