Kyle Stock of Bloomberg reports about a new dark horse in the U.S. electric car wars. Stock writes:
For a guy with a dog named Elvis, buying a Cadillac is fairly on-brand. But for Gary Roberts, a retired dentist who lives just west of Asheville, North Carolina, buying a Cadillac Lyriq also meant deciding to invest in his first electric car.
Roberts isn’t a brand loyalist, or even much of an environmentalist, but there was something about the Lyriq that appealed to him. […]
Roberts in North Carolina had to wait 10 months for his Lyriq. But when his number came up, he eagerly traded in his GMC Acadia Denali, which got only 19 miles per gallon when puttering around town. “[There are] enough vehicles out there,” he says. “You don’t have to drive something you don’t like.”
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