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Dealers Finally Have EV Inventory But Now Lack Buyers

The Truth About Cars

We’ve been hearing about the rise of electric vehicles for years, but while they are growing rapidly in number, there’s still a disconnect between an auto industry hell-bent on electrification and the desires of the people they rely on to buy new cars. Though EV sales seem to be dragging, hybrids and plug-in hybrids are hot commodities.

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Kia EV9 wins, Fisker franchises, Tesla tops BYD, leather in EVs: The Week in Reverse

Baua Electric

Which EVs made the tax-credit shortlist in 2024? The Kia EV9 is Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy 2024. Among its many winning assets: It fits the form that American households seek in a family vehicle, without the luxury price tag, and it’s at the leading edge in all aspects of charging. Which company faced a $1.7

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Why Your Auto Dealership Needs EV Charging Stations

EV Connect

Electric vehicle sales continue to surge forward. million global EV sales in 2021, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that EV sales were already up 75% year over year in the first quarter of 2022. After all, a customer can’t test-drive an EV with a dead battery. After logging a record-breaking 6.6

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Toyota Snags a RAV4 EV

Plugs and Cars

Now that automakers seem to be reevaluating plug-in cars, you'd think the era of automakers taking extraordinary steps to keep electric cars from private ownership would be over. In mid-January a 2002 RAV4 EV south of San Francisco came to the end of its five year lease. You'd be wrong.

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Coulomb Technologies to Provide 4,600 Free Home and Public Charging Stations Through ChargePoint America Program

Green Car Congress

First, each region had to be on at least one of the participating automakers list of target regions where their vehicles will be for sale during the program period. Individuals apply for the ChargePoint America program at the auto dealer or with the auto company where they purchase the new electric vehicle.

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

It also carried an equally high price tag of nearly $30k. The high price tag combined with the Harley branding meant that the market was limited mainly to wealthy, older brand loyalists, and they weren’t exactly buying it by the thousands. And that’s where things got really interesting.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

About CalCars Plug-In Hybrids FAQ How to Get a PHEV Where PHEVs are Carmakers Say. At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" This formed the basis for the EAA-PHEV project.

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