Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 17, 2014
Buying a car often isn''t a pleasant experience, and that''s especially true for people looking to purchase an electric car. Electric-car buyers'' disapproval of the dealership is well documented, as is dealer impatience with the education and added time supposedly required to sell newfangled plug-in cars.
Electric Cars Report
AUGUST 17, 2022
The first electrified vehicle for the Dodge brand will be a plug-in hybrid compact utility vehicle (CUV) called the Hornet. The plug-in hybrid which Dodge Hornet R/T will hits dealers next spring starting around $40,000.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 5, 2014
Car dealers maximize their profits by selling the highest number of cars at the highest possible prices in the least possible time. Plug-in electric cars are unfamiliar to most buyers, and require more explanation--sometimes a great deal more--along with specific types of support during and after the sale.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
The stories abound: A car buyer walks into a dealership, educated about the electric car she wants to buy.and the salesperson tries to convince her she doesn''t want that car after all. She really wants a gasoline car, he argues.
Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Early adopters, ecology-minded citizens and, increasingly, drivers who want very low running costs are now buying plug-in electric cars. But many have reported frustrations at the dealership, from a lack of interest to salespeople who actively steer them away from electrics toward gasoline cars. That much we know.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Which is likely why a staple of plug-in car forums is the bad-treatment-at-a-car-dealership story. Anecdotes abound about Chevrolet and Nissan dealers who tried to pull Volt and Leaf buyers away from plug-in electrics into gasoline cars. Or said, "Your battery will.'
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Even as sales of small cars drop in California and across the country, sales of electric cars continue to climb, breaking past 5 percent of the market so far in 2019.
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