This is why I am asking how many of these are actually on lots. At this stage in the game cars.com can be misleading in how many are out there, small numbers. It would be interesting to hear from someone in CA who can go to a bigger dealer and see how many are actually present on the lot and if they are MSRP or not. My hunch is a few dealers are discounting them slightly to move quickly, like Rydell and others might be marking them up and not selling them. Rydell is showing about 141 with around 1/3rd of those in transit, so that seems like they would have a lot available on lots, I am curious how many of those are actually sold at this point and maybe it is most of them or maybe not.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/81-shoppers-conduct-online-research-making-purchase-infographic/ states 81% conduct online research prior to buying a car...Now disclaimer, there are many steps in the "online research process" whether that's "I need a new car and I have no idea what I want" vs "I want a fully optioned black Bolt EV at the cheapest price" but in either scenario, the amount of cars on the physical lots makes little difference...The Bolt EV is very niche and somewhat high tech, so you could argue Bolt EV suitors are closer to 95%+ starting online...My point is, lot inventory doesn't matter...The "had to have it now" early adopters got theirs, despite GM stonewalling out of state sales, if you ordered early enough you could have had one...
I believe if they simply increase the lease incentives and advertise some sort of $X,XXX down & $299/mo lease special it would do far better...Also I've explained many times before, EV shoppers seek out the FULL tax credit, $7500 as an incentive...GM should listen to that, there are so many factors to a lease that most do not understand, but they understand the $7500...GM should finagle the residuals, CCR, MF and allow a $7500 off since is one of the most important aspects of leasing an EV...
Yet doing all that has consequences, will lower the resale value quicker...However, isn't turning on the incentives inevitable? Is it fair to have a GM credit card and being to use your points for most every GM vehicle, except for the Bolt EV?