Every now and then, it's good to step back from the electric vehicle sector and take a good, hard look at the car market as a whole. After all, EVs and hybrids had a pretty strong sales month in the U.S. in August; just ask Honda, Hyundai and even Ford. But when you look at the new car market in aggregate, things don't look as good as they did in past years. Why, you ask? To paraphrase one famous election-related quip from when I was a kid, "It’s the economy, stupid."
