I might be going down the wrong path here but I noticed the marketplace seems pretty empty for brokers in and around Washington state. Am I missing something or do most folks just get cars shipped here?
Ideally looking at a Cadillac optiq or maybe a zdx. If anyone can point me in the right direction I’d appreciate it!
I’m in same boat. See a lot of “socal only!” posts. A broker willing to work in/with WA would clean up. Especially if they can cheaply source low-demand EVs in red states and simply/easily ship to this high-EV-demand state.
Turns out red state people like cheap EV as well lol
These red states are probably more suitable for EV, housing is cheaper so they all got charger at home. And charging network here is not bad at all unless you go to the deep south ofc
I just went to make this topic but you already did, please oh please can we get some brokers that know WA EV taxes! I’m trying to buy an EV, really almost any one, in Spokane and these dealers don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a Chevy dealer in town with four identical Blazer EVs that have been on the lot for 10 months and they refusing to discount anything off MSRP, and are trying to charge full tax on the sales price which isn’t even how leases are done in WA, let alone that an EV is exempt if under a certain price. They wanted nearly $800/mo for a Blazer EV!
I’ve found that to be true too. Not only are most salespeople ignorant about the EVs on their lot, they also know absolutely nothing about WA sales tax exemptions.
Or they pretend to know nothing. I strongly suspect they charge the customer the full tax, and then deliver to the state the owed tax… and keep the difference.
No. That’s what the law actually says but the DoR quickly “clarified” that the pre-rebate selling price of the car has to be less than $45k and the total of the lease payments is irrelevant.