[DrJokepu]

> The car manufacturers sell their cars through the dealers. If every time they make an EV, the dealerships don't order them and steer every customer away from buying them, that's just as much a problem for the car manufacturer.

But that's not how cars are sold, at least not in the United States. Manufacturers don't leave it up to the dealers to decide what vehicles they can push and what vehicles they can steer customers away from.

Dealers get a vehicle allocation. Some of the allocated vehicles are cars that are easy to sell. Some of the allocated vehicles are cars that aren't easy to sell, but the manufacturer wants to push them. If the dealer wants to get more of the cars that are in demand allocated, they need to push the models the manufacturer wants them to push.