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Letter: Find me an electric vehicle and I'll buy it tomorrow

Waitlists of a year or longer are preventing people from driving away with electric cars.
Electric vehicle parking
Want a car to park here? You might find yourself on a waitlist for a year or two — or more. This letter writer says the failure to take up electric vehicles isn't drivers' fault.

Editor:

I read you article on slow uptake of electrical vehicles and reasons for it. Have you gone to any dealers in the last year? They have no cars to sell.

I am on the waitlist for: Hyundai Kona, one-plus year wait; EV 6, 1.5 to two-year wait; ID.4, can't get one where I live; Bolt, one-plus year; F150 lightning, 1.5 to three years.  

It isn't people that are slow to make the change. It is the fact of no supply. Show me where I can go to a lot and get one of the vehicles listed above and I would gladly do it.   

Instead I sit on waitlist after waitlist since January of this year. Maybe don't be afraid to put the onus on where the slo down of adopting into this belongs: the manufacturers.   

The 2030/2035 goal for no gas-powered vehicles is quite ridiculous when you are waiting over a year for the car. Sad. But hard to ignore.   

John Kowaleski