Our frustrating time trying to buy an electric vehicle

By Doug Hempstead, CBC News Ottawa, July 25, 2019

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There are a bunch of reasons for this, but I think the most frustrating is the dealers themselves.

We're trying to buy an electric vehicle at my home. Or, rather, my wife is trying to buy one. She's never bought a car on her own before — at least not from a dealer.

She's actually been asked once if her husband was on board.

(...)Another dealer couldn't get the car we wanted. We gave them a deposit and waited months. No calls, no updates.

(...)A number of salesmen even tried to sell her the gas model instead.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-gatineau-traffic-july-25-2019-1.5224419