Best Buy Pulls Plug

[Brammofan]

An article from CBS's BNET:
Best Buy Pulls the Plug on Electric Cars, and Isn’t That Charged About Scooters, Either

No surprises here.  I wonder how different it would have been had they gone "all in" with the EVs instead of just putting up displays and letting customers try to figure it out.

[Gavin]

all in would have been nice...

I'm waiting on the Plus, maybe the SMS....if the local best buy had the Enertia a year ago I would probably have an Enertia...

Gavin

[Richard230]

While I am not surprised, considering how little Best Buy did to promote electric scooters, bicycles and the occasional Enertia in their stores, I am disappointed that not having this large outlet will require these manufacturers to return to the old standby of retail bicycle, scooter and motorcycle dealers to push their products. These "mom and pop" shops are going to have a tough time selling and servicing a vehicle that they are not familiar with and that do not have the staff to service. Plus, the vehicle manufacturers do not have much of a distribution, parts, service and warranty system to support the retailers. Small stand-alone retailers are going to be (nervously) thinking long and hard before taking on a new EV product. I think this move by Best Buy is going to set back the EV market at least a year or more.  

[FreepZ]

China’s market for e-bikes and e-motorcycles dwarfs demand from all other regions combined, and consists of 98 percent of the global market.

There’s a huge barrier with consumers about how they’ll charge the vehicles.

It's a bit sad to see that American consumers can't figure out about charging, while in China it's no big deal. I would have thought that electricity was more easily available to Americans than Chinese people.

I'm not all that surprised about Best Buy. Sure, lots of people pass through their store, but with all of the unrealistic expectations that are being built up by movies and hyped up news broadcasts, most people really don't have a clue what an EV can and cannot do.

The manufacturers just need to get more products out there, so that the general public can see them, talk to their owners, and get an idea of what an EV is.

In other words... "Where's my Empulse?"

[Brammofan]

Don't believe everything you read, Freepz.  The Best Buy execs have to cover their asses somehow, so why not blame it on ignorant buyers?  Charging is stupidly easy.