This article provides useful context: www.autoblog.com/amp/2023/03/16/ford-model-e-dealer-changes-unhappy/

This isn’t dealerships saying they don’t want to sell EVs nearly as much as it is about dealerships not wanting to deal with Ford’s burdensome and expensive corporate policies around selling them.

This reminds me of the story the anti-progress people shared incessantly about the one time a hazmat team was called to a house to clean up after a CFL bulb broke.