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Electric vehicle sales are growing.

According to Cox Automotive, EV sales in the U.S. were up 11% in the third quarter year over year.

In 2025, they estimate the same sort of growth since the market expects at least 15 all-new products.

But the road ahead for EVs isn't quite so smooth.

Music But the road ahead for EVs isn't quite so smooth. Early last year, electric vehicles were speeding off the lot.

Back then, there was a lot of pent-up demand for EVs.

That's Sean McLean.

He's a journal reporter based in Los Angeles and has been covering cars for over eight years.

I asked him how he would describe the EV industry last year.

I would say the best description is blinded by hope.

There was a lot of assumptions made about hunger for EVs and almost the entire auto industry overestimated

how many people wanted these things. Six months into this year, the check engine light was

blinking on the EV industry. For Sean, the first sign came from, well, a sign on the side

of the highway. I was driving south of L.A. down to Orange County and I saw one of the biggest Ford dealers down there and that has this big billboard on the side of the highway. I was driving south of LA down to Orange County, and I saw one of the biggest four dealers down there,

and that has this big billboard on the side of the 405 highway, basically saying 125 EVs on the lot.

It struck me that like if LA has a bunch of EVs just sitting on the lot waiting to be sold, something's wrong.

Dealers were the first sort of canaries in the coal mine.

It went from dealers have too many EVs to the factories

that are producing too many EVs.

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