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...
by Phil Jackson | Jan 12, 2022
In a recent article, The New York Times talked about the speed at which Norway has embraced electric cars. For new car sales last year, only 8% ran solely on gas or diesel. Two-thirds of new cars sold were electric, with most of the rest being hybrids. Contrast this...
by Phil Jackson | Dec 15, 2021
As of today, across our Group roughly 40% of our new car inventory is electrified. That’s pretty amazing, given that if this calculation was done a year ago it would have been less than 10%. Granted there are several factors in play here. The global disruption in...
by Phil Jackson | Dec 2, 2021
As I consider the ‘limited’ range of my new electric car, I find myself thinking that range-anxiety really isn’t anything of note. How many days a year do I drive longer than the 265-mile range on my new Polestar 2? Maybe a handful at best. So why should I choose to...
by Phil Jackson | Nov 19, 2021
Have a new Polestar 2 in the driveway – here are the initial takeaways:It is fast. And quick. And nimble. And powerful. Hit the gas and it moves. No lag at all. If you like to drive, electric is amazing.The new audio/visual interface with Google Android is fantastic....
by Phil Jackson | Nov 3, 2021
Here’s another impending and fascinating technological advance: wireless charging of electric vehicles. There is no chance I try to break down the science of it, but here is a very basic and I’m sure not-quite-perfectly-explained synopsis: you have a transmitter coil...
