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Why Car Dealerships Should Invest in Public Charging

EV Connect

Leading auto dealers see that the near-term trend is electric and are adopting their businesses to sell more EVs. According to data from iseecars.com, Non-Tesla new car dealers selling electric vehicles in the U.S. Here are 3 reasons why public charging is a great opportunity for car dealerships: 1. increased from 1 6.5

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Nissan LEAF passes 25,000 sales mark in US

Green Car Congress

The battery-electric car posted its best US sales month yet in March, and a 423.5% We’re seeing the adoption curve for EVs accelerate, and there is tremendous interest not only on the West Coast but in a number of new strongholds like Atlanta, Raleigh, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, St. year-over-year sales increase in April.

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Friendly Chevrolet’s Electrifying Success Launching an EV Charging Business

EV Connect

Friendly Chevrolet’s Innovative Heritage Since 1956, Friendly Chevrolet has been a fi xture of the Dallas automotive community. This family-owned dealership, under the stewardship of Mark Eddins since 1972, has been awarded Chevrolet’s dealer of the year and GM’s Mark of Excellence Award for the past 10 years.

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GM workaround for transport snags: Broker pickup from the manufacturing unit

Baua Electric

“One unit is one more spot on a rail [car], it’s one more spot on a truck. It does help the overall capacity,” Bell informed Car Information. “We found a happy place between the two of us, so I don’t think we were having to lean in heavy to get the dealers engaged.

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Keeping your Nissan LEAF?

Electric Auto Association

If I was to keep the car, I would need to replace the battery pack (yet again), and if I were to go to that trouble (and expense), then it would make sense to purchase something larger than the current 24 kWh version. Both turned out to be even better than I had hoped due to the fact that the car met an early demise.

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Top 15 Nissan LEAF markets in US in 2013

Green Car Congress

Louis, where the reasons for growth in this “New Wave” market include enthusiastic dealer engagement that results in increased community education and awareness, corporate and university outreach and midwestern pragmatism that appreciates the value equation of an EV. Additionally, for the greater D.C.

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0 to 60 in a millisecond

Electric Auto Association

I was very impressed by the specs of the car and by the way (Tesla CEO) Elon Musk was talking about them.” “It I was on a mission to learn anything I could about Teslas, and then I realized there were other electric cars, too!” My parents don’t buy new cars until their old cars break down and can’t go anymore,” he said. “It