I remember this being explained as a bad buyer problem. Dealerships keep ordering full trim models and have trouble selling them but aren’t stocking entry-level models that everyone has advertised to them.

When no one buys the model 15k more than they budgeted for in a bad economy, the dealerships throw their hands up and say no one is interested in EVs.

It’s a shame that the traditional US (and japanese) auto industry decided that they needed to make every EV they could a truck or suv becuse that’s what they get the best margin on. Like there’s a reason that EV adoption isn’t a problem in europe or asia, and that’s becuse most of thier models are small enough to be affordable. While you may pay at the pump for a large suv or truck, with electric that cost comes up front in the form of the battery and motor needing to be far larger than they would otherwise be. Combine with the fascination with longer ranges than most people need even for cross country trips and the cost for most of these cars is far higher than it should be even before artificial scarcity and dealer shananagans come into play.

Why are they not Making more plug in hybrids? Look at Toyota with the rav4 prime and the new Prius prime, they are both almost impossible to get and regularly sell above MSRP. They are cheaper to make, cost less for the consumer, don’t have the range and infrastructure issues of pure electric, and take much smaller batteries.