Biz: Give it time: Electric cars not really flying off the shelves yet
- >350 the reported sales of the hopemobile, the Chevy Volt, in December … but it’s kind of a novelty right now
- >10 the reported sales of the Nissan Leaf in the last two weeks; the odds that Ed Begley Jr. owns one? Even source
- » It’s not really a demand problem: The issue here is more supply. The cars simply haven’t hit most parts of the country yet, and there are waiting lists 50,000 people long for the electric cars, which are slowly ramping up production and should go nationwide by 2012.
