Federal standards and incentives aimed at preventing climate change and promoting the adoption of electric vehicles are on cruise control, but dealers are seeing their EV sales stall.

According to dealers, their trade associations and industry analysts, consumers are put off by the prices of EVs — which are generally steeper than internal combustion engine vehicles. Additionally, vehicle buyers’ concerns about availability of charging stations and how far an EV can go on a single charge are sales barriers too, they agree.

The federal push toward EVs is ...