Yesterday, I wrote about a rather underwhelming experience my family and I had test driving a Hyundai IONIQ 5. The salesman seemed to know very little about the car and didn’t seem that interested in getting us to buy it. There were many reader responses about their own horrible dealership … [continued]
So, let me first start off by saying that I went to a Kia dealer today and had a superb experience with the sales rep there. He knew a ton about the EV6 we test drove, but also about other electric vehicles. He was extremely eager to be helpful, answer … [continued]
Yesterday, I visited a dealership and posed this question to the sales rep who was showing me their latest electric vehicle. (How can auto dealerships evolve during the EV transition?) He agreed that it was a challenge. “New staff will need to be from a technical background, rather than a … [continued]
Volkswagen is moving forward with plans to begin manufacturing a whole new class of vehicles under the Scout Motors brand. Scout was originally a sub-brand of International Harvester, with all the technological sophistication that name implies. The company started as a manufacturer of farming equipment and machinery, which means its … [continued]
In recent days, media and social media have been talking a lot about the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO on a New York street. The alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, has become a bit of a folk hero to many, largely because so many people have struggled to deal with health insurance … [continued]
Selling electric cars is hard enough but many dealers make that process harder by not training their sales staff.
Much has been said in recent months about supposedly slumping EV sales growth. As we’ve pointed out on a number of occasions now, EV sales are actually soaring at many automakers in the USA, including at Ford, GM, Rivian, Audi, BMW, and several others. However, it seems there’s a brewing … [continued]
Car dealers have been an issue for electric vehicle sales during this whole modern electric vehicle era. One of the biggest decisions Tesla made early on was that it needed to sell its vehicles to consumers directly — that if it tried to go through auto dealers, it wouldn’t do … [continued]
Ford’s NACS announcement torpedoed its own dealers, reduced consumer confidence in EVs, and brought back memories of the Osborne 2.
For the past 5 years, the Motor Trades Association of Queensland has been warning dealerships that they need to prepare for Carmageddon. No, not the computer game, but the advent of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) on Queensland roads and the devastating effect that will have on their current business models. … [continued]
