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- EVs are spending nearly three months on dealer lots before being sold.
- The longer a car sits around, the cheaper it gets.
- Leasing deals are the best affordability hack for EVs.
It's a good time to start shopping for a new electric vehicle.
While you spent the summer vacationing and traveling, many electric vehicles sat idle on dealer lots. At the end of July, it took dealers an average of 81 days — nearly three months — to sell the EVs that arrived in their showrooms, according to days-to-turn data from Edmunds.