by Phil Jackson | Apr 6, 2022
With gas prices at ridiculous levels, there is little doubt that driving an electric car is better for your pocketbook these days. Before electric I didn’t miss having to stop at a gas station, with its frontal assault on your senses and your general well-being. Now I...
by Phil Jackson | Mar 11, 2022
An unfathomably tragic humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ukraine. To help in our own small way, the stores of the Village Automotive Group will be collecting donations to support the World Central Kitchen’s relief efforts for Ukraine. WCK is an incredibly impressive...
by Phil Jackson | Feb 23, 2022
If there was any doubt that all of the energy in the automotive industry is flowing toward electrification, all you have to do is take note of the stock market. Just this week, Volkswagen floated plans to spin off its Porsche division in an IPO valued at more than 90...
by Phil Jackson | Feb 9, 2022
Here are some forecasts from BloombergNEF about the burgeoning electric vehicle marketplace for 2022: • They predict 10 million plug-in vehicle sales, or about 14% of all global vehicle sales. Compare this to 6.6 million in 2021 and 3.2 million in 2020. This number...
by Phil Jackson | Jan 26, 2022
Apparently, Subaru charges customers a monthly fee to enable the remote-start function on their cars. That is amazing – your car doesn’t need to be warmed up, and if you skip the fee you won’t be wasting energy and emitting extra emissions just because the car is a...
