Surprised at (poor) EV buying experience

You have to remember you're dealing with salespeople, they sell for a living so they know how to do it. They're not going to put any effort into trying to sell something that they can't get hold of.
This was the experience I had when I went looking for an EV or a hybrid, the salespeople made no effort to try and flog me one, they didn't seem convinced about the technology themselves and in some cases tried to dissuade me from buying.
I had a couple of models in mind, I was a cash buyer with a desirable trade in and when I said I was interested in X which wasn't readily available I was pointed towards Y which was widely available. Even trying to arrange a test drive was a chore, they didn't have one available, it wasn't fully charged etc etc, and no attempt to haggle a deal.
In most cases I knew more about the cars I was looking at than the guys "trying" to sell them.
The impression I got was that they just weren't worth the effort trying to sell them, the real money was in the diesel equivalent of which they had dozens in stock, ready for a cash buyer.

Dglflyer wrote: »

Unkel, dude keep the Kona sh*t on the down low , its only more people I will have to trample over in the que ;-)

Total allocation for 2018 was sold out in Norway in 2 days. And that was for the high spec, high power, high range 64kWh model, which is not cheap at all!

Things even in Ireland are completely different from say about one year ago. Back then people didn't know / didn't care about EVs. But people are getting the picture now. Everybody knows we'll all drive EVs soon. People are trying to jump on the bandwagon, but the bandwagon is tiny