Jalopnik

MARCH 23, 2024

A sucker walks into a new car dealership every minute. Dealership showroom floors are practically delivery rooms for freshly-born suckers. There are shiny new cars on the floor, and rapacious young sales professionals just waiting to lure you into something you can’t afford , don’t need, or otherwise shouldn’t own.…

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Jalopnik

JANUARY 9, 2024

The VinFast VF8 is a bad car , and with a base price of nearly $50,000, you can’t even make the argument that it doesn’t need to be fancy because it’s cheap. Despite that (and all the negative reviews that came from the press launch), VinFast decided to start selling its cars in the U.S. Or at least attempt to sell… Read more.

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Jalopnik

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles are spending nearly three months sitting on dealer lots. Data shows that it took Mercedes dealers an average of 82 days to sell the automaker’s battery-powered EQ models , according to Automotive News. Read more.

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Jalopnik

DECEMBER 14, 2023

New numbers about non-Tesla EV market share and how many dealerships are selling electric vehicles are showing just how much Tesla’s market edge has shrunk in the past few years, according to data compiled by iSeeCars.com. Read more.

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Jalopnik

AUGUST 9, 2024

Right now, electric vehicle sales are hitting a bit of a slowdown. Don’t get me wrong, the market is growing , but it’s not growing as fast as some may have predicted. We know automakers (for the most part) want to build EVs , and we know customers (for the most part) want to buy EVs, but what about the third party… Read more.

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RepairSmith

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You might have noticed a low coolant level in your car. Your next question may be: What coolant does my car need? What Coolant Does My Car Need? How Do Cars Lose Coolant? Why Would My Car Need a Coolant Flush? By the way, even electric vehicles use coolant, but to cool the battery, not the car engine.

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AutoSuccess

JANUARY 2, 2024

new car dealerships’ Google reviews from the first half of 2023. The auto industry average benchmark is dealerships having 7% of their reviews be one star, so the high volume of negative reviews raises concern about the experience of buying and owning an EV. Experience with staff is 5.2x Customers bring up deals in 3.8%

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AutoSuccess

APRIL 30, 2024

Energy Toolbase , Socomec and Sprocket Power have deployed an energy storage system (ESS) at an expansive New York car dealership to provide microgrid capabilities, reduce demand charges and participate in the state’s demand response programs.

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Auto Remarketing

JUNE 4, 2024

Two new reports are challenging consumer perceptions — and doubts — about electric vehicles. Despite the recent headwinds for electric vehicles, it’s clear that many existing models would be more than adequate for consumers’ weekly use. This is a key challenge EVs have always faced.

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AutoSuccess

JANUARY 8, 2024

Followers of the Electric Vehicle (EV) market are living in interesting times. Compared to ICE vehicles, EVs are still foreign objects. This makes car shopping for an EV a new and different experience than what shoppers are used to. What is the vehicle range? How and where does the vehicle charge?

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Jalopnik

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A lot of car dealers don’t have much interest in selling EVs ; some are politically opposed to the idea on its face, some just don’t want to make the massive investment their brands are demanding to update their stores to EV readiness and some are just philosophically opposed to learning anything about products and… Read more.

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AutoSuccess

JANUARY 5, 2024

Dealers are Preparing for an Increase in Electric-Vehicle Service Dealerships in the U.S. are gearing up for a rise in electric vehicle service as EV sales are expected to surpass 1 million units in a year for the first time in 2023, the Cox Automotive study shows. .

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Jalopnik

JULY 16, 2024

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, July 16, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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Jalopnik

JULY 6, 2024

Fisker officially filed for bankruptcy last month, and despite a “going out of business” sale that saw prices of its Ocean EV slashed by thousands , the automaker still has a few thousand leftovers that didn’t sell. Fisker may have found a buyer for all those EVs and, as TechCrunch reports, it’s willing to let them go… Read more.

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Auto Remarketing

MAY 9, 2024

Are traditional car dealerships becoming less relevant in this era of digital disruption? The 2024 Urban Science Dealership Transformation Index polled 3,005 U.S. car buyers in three “key dimensions” — dealer relevance, trend resistance and actions — to measure customer perception of dealers.

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Jalopnik

JANUARY 3, 2025

In 2024, car buyers got a very slight respite from the record-high car prices weve seen for almost half a decade now , and it seems like that trend will continue through 2025 thanks to dealers offering more and more cash on the hood of new cars.

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Jalopnik

JANUARY 11, 2025

A new dealership sentiment survey from Kerrigan Advisors, a dealership consulting Read more. Stellantis is not having a good time right now. The Transatlantic automaker just posed a 15 percent overall U.S. sales drop in 2024 in comparison to 2023, and now it seems its dealers dont even trust the direction it is heading in.

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Jalopnik

AUGUST 13, 2024

Good morning! It’s Tuesday, August 13, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift , your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more.

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