I can understand if some dealers are a bit reluctant to embrace Honda's first all electric car, because the current sales of BEVs is still only a small fraction of all car sales, and Honda only have the one model at the moment, and the dealer also has to make an investment to support BEVs in terms of training and chargers (and possibly different tools and equipment, computer software, etc.?). My local dealer has just had 4 level 2 chargers installed (2 units with 2 charge points per unit), and the salesman said that British Gas, who are Honda's preferred/recommended supplier, wanted to charge the dealer £22,000 for those chargers!
Naturally they declined and bought the chargers elsewhere for a lower cost (he didn't say how much, but I would imagine it was considerably less). Add in the thought that there may be less income from servicing BEVs then I can understand why they think ICE cars are a better business for them at the moment.
The number of BEVs is slowly increasing though. I was the first in my road (of maybe 60 houses) to buy one (4 years ago). Then last year another household bought a mk1 Nissan LEAF, and just recently a new Peugeot e208 GT has appeared about 6 houses away from my house.
