Teslarati

OCTOBER 21, 2023

However, a new report shows that dealers have had difficulty keeping up with inventory levels for the automaker’s EQ lineup, with sales times for the EVs exceeding the luxury segment average. One person who runs a Mercedes store said he currently has over six months’ worth of EVs and only a 50-day supply of the company’s gas cars.

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Electrek

JUNE 23, 2023

The revamp includes a new logo and Apple-like stores complete with signature scents and sounds. Infiniti showed off its first EV at a recent dealer meeting, with dealers describing it as a Tesla Model-like electric sedan. One thing missing from these showrooms – is fully electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

Continental Tires has inaugurated a new Continental Premium Drive (CPD) dealer store in Bengaluru, further expanding its retail presence in Southern India. Situated in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, the newly launched CPD dealer store boasts a floor space of 600 sqft dedicated to showcasing a wide range of passenger vehicle tyres.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

Over the weekend, your author happened upon a rural Ford dealership seemingly frozen in time, still using signage from past decades and proudly eschewing whatever cold corporate design is currently being foisted upon dealer principals by The Suits in Dearborn. It was neat to see a store embrace its heritage. Texas, ya’ll.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

VinFast officially launched its first store in Canada, inside the Yorkdale Shopping Center in Toronto, Ontario. This fulfills the second of five phases of the brand’s launch in North America, which started off with the opening of six stores in California three months ago.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2019

The Connecticut Supreme Court is scheduled to take up the case of whether Tesla should have been allowed to operate stores in the state.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In the state-by-state war between Tesla Motors and car-dealer associations, the electric-car maker has now added another victory to its tally. Massachusetts'' highest court ruled this week that the state dealer association does not have standing to sue Tesla for operating one of its company-owned stores there.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There's a dealer -- 62-year-old Steven Hickman -- in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, who was convicted of selling an "unroadworthy" Subaru Forester (the model year is unclear) to a customer last March. He sold the car through his store, Shelby's of Netherton. The United States doesn't have a monopoly on shady car dealerships.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to the 2024 Dealer Outlook Survey, 83 percent of respondents said the government was pushing the transition toward EVs too quickly and mucking up the auto market. As for dealers, there’s some amount of disagreement as to what’s holding EVs back. EVs are definitely not a want of our guests today.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

The additions will give the company 18 franchised dealerships in seven states—North Carolina, New York, Texas, Florida, Kansas, Connecticut, and Kentucky—since the start of a pivot to a dealer model last year. That’s on top of 15 company-owned stores and service centers in California—the nation’s largest EV market.

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CN EV Post

AUGUST 22, 2022

BYD will sell cars in Japan through a dealer network rather than directly operated stores, because the former is the way Japanese consumers are most familiar with, an executive said. The post BYD aims to have 100 dealership stores in Japan by 2025 appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Buick dealers in rural areas are moving in favor of buyouts from General Motors instead of shifting toward EV adoption, dealerships said. buyouts in an attempt to push stores toward widespread EV adoption. However, he understands there are some stores that do not sell many units, and the buyout is likely the better option.

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CN EV Post

JANUARY 1, 2024

For dealer stores that meet their sales targets, BYD will give them a reward of RMB 666 for every vehicle they have sold, according to local media.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 21, 2013

Well, this is a new tactic we haven''t seen before in the fight between franchised auto dealers and Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric-car startup. A pair of bills in the New York State Legislature, backed by New York state auto dealers, would make it illegal to license or renew licenses for Tesla stores within the state.

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CN EV Post

JULY 5, 2022

Louwman will open offline stores in several Dutch cities to provide a full range of sales and after-sales services for BYD's NEVs. The post BYD partners with local dealer to tap Dutch NEV market appeared first on CnEVPost. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2021

The system stores sustainably generated electricity in used batteries that come from the all-electric SUV ŠKODA ENYAQ iV as well as the plug-in hybrid models SUPERB iV and OCTAVIA iV. Following a successful pilot project in Prague, the energy storage units are now available to ŠKODA contract dealers.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 9, 2023

In the past two days, rumors have surfaced that BMW dealers are offering massive subsidies for the i3 in China, and that consumers who pay full cash for the car can even get the model for RMB 120,000 to 180,000, less than half the retail price. The rumors and the dealers' moves come as the Chinese auto industry is staging a rare price war.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 20, 2023

After weathering pandemic-related shutdowns, chip shortages, and barren lots, some dealers are complaining our nation’s rail system is suddenly no longer up to the task of delivering new cars. A few are saying they have a point, whilst others muse it is a bit of karma for three years of price gouging and “additional dealer markups”.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ford F-150 Lightning (Source: Ford) A strong majority of car dealers complain the US government’s strategy is bringing them too fast into the electric vehicle future. The concerns about dealers have proved warranted. 83 percent of the dealers surveyed said that they believe the federal government is pushing them into EVs too fast.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Today, VinFast and a local dealer network in the Middle East signed an agreement to bring the former’s EVs to the region. As part of the agreement, BAT will establish and operate 13 VinFast stores and service centers over the next three years, with initial sales in the Middle East commencing in mid-2024.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 18, 2013

Several thousand Tesla owners have now purchased their cars by ordering and paying for them online after visiting a Tesla Store showroom. No franchised dealers are involved. State and national auto-dealer groups strongly disagree.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

company-wide fleet, and will be serving Albertsons, Vons, and Pavilions stores in Southern California. The inaugural delivery took place on 28 May at a LEED-certified Albertsons store in Irvine, California. to make the first commercial 100% zero-emission grocery delivery with a Class 8 truck in the US. Albertsons Cos. Albertsons Cos.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2023

EVgo and GM are working together to broaden access to public charging where EV drivers already spend time, such as grocery stores, retail centers and city centers, while also serving the need for customers who are unable to charge at home or work, such as renters and those living in multifamily dwellings.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Tesla Motors recently had another setback in its fight with Virginia's franchised car dealers over direct sales of its luxury electric cars. Over the past several months, Tesla has battled dealers and their lobbyists in the state over plans to open a second company-owned store.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 6, 2024

It would be easy to draw a direct correlation between any changes in EV demand and the sudden uptick in new or near-new Tesla vehicles which have been stored at the soon-to-be-demolished Chesterfield Mall. So they are renting space within the parking lot to store their cars.” The nearby St.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Porsche is changing the way people interact with and buy their cars.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The legislative battle that pits Ohio car dealers against Tesla Motors and its company-owned stores continues. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the car dealers are once again pushing legislation that would keep Tesla from selling cars in the Buckeye State.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tesla Motors is facing a formidable opponent it may not have sufficiently appreciated: the auto dealers of America, and their state associations. Tesla, you may remember, is selling its electric cars online, not through franchised, independently owned dealers, and delivering them directly to buyers from the factory.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Last Friday, a judge denied a request by the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association for an injunction that would have shut down the Tesla Store in Natick, which opened on September 28. If the dealers' request had been granted, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] would have been.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 27, 2015

Now, one reporter tested the thesis for himself, by visiting both his local Tesla store--to inquire about the Model S electric luxury sedan--and his local Chevrolet dealer, to ask about the Volt range-extended electric car. Politics sales dealers Chevy Volt Tesla Motors New car sales Dealership plug-in cars state laws'

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Auto-dealer groups are fighting Tesla Motors'' direct-sales model in a state-by-state battle, fostering legislation to outlaw the electric-car maker''s company-owned stores, and claiming they''re bad for consumers. However, that doesn''t mean these dealers aren''t also learning from Tesla.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Tesla Motors'' company-owned stores have provoked a bitter response from state auto-dealer associations, who view them as a threat to traditional franchised dealerships. DON''T MISS: Michigan Car Dealers Slip One Over On Tesla, Ban Direct Sales: UPDATED In a recent interview.'

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2013

Texas is tough, and Texas car dealers are no exception. But electric-car startup Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], in the person of its CEO Elon Musk, testified yesterday at a hearing in the Texas legislature on a bill that would allow it to sell its cars directly to Texas buyers.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 11, 2014

Another battle in Tesla Motors'' nationwide war with car dealers seems imminent. ALSO SEE: Tesla Stores Changing Dealer Relationship, Says Ex-Apple Exec At Ford.'

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Electric Vehicles India

AUGUST 30, 2021

Researches developed EV batteries that store 6 times more charge than common ones . An international team of researchers led by Stanford University has developed rechargeable batteries that store the charge up to 6 times more than the normal currently available commercial ones.

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2024

We believe the new digital hub will provide an innovative way to introduce prospective customers to the Hyundai brand through a shopping experience they are already accustomed to, all while continuing to support local dealers,” noted Nils Gräf , the Managing Director of Amazon Ads in Germany. The partnership centered on three main pieces.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

NAPA Auto Parts stores will be an authorized dealer of Pulsar Plus, Wallbox’s award-winning smart home EV charger, online and in-store at more than 6,000 locations across the United States and Canada. Pulsar Plus is available for purchase in select retail locations as of mid-February 2022.

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