During February's Super Bowl —the American football final, which is the most-watched television event in the world, with 112 million viewers this year—seven of the nine car commercials were for electric vehicles. The emergence of EVs on the market is a reality, and their momentum is now being reinforced by high gasoline prices. But the booming EV market faces a downside: there are not enough vehicles to meet growing demand. According to Bloomberg, at the end of February there were fewer than 2,200 Mustang Mach Es available in the US, while VW had just over 1,000 ID.4 models and Nissan had fewer than 950 units of its Leaf model. The same was true for hybrids, such as Toyota's RAV4 Prime and Prius Prime models.

In part, the low availability of EVs is due to the same problem affecting the entire industry: the shortage of microprocessors. The result? The cruel law of the market. The shortage has driven up prices for both new and used EVs, with Rivian, for example, increasing them by between 17% and 20% in early March.