by Phil Jackson | May 19, 2022
Events of the past 2 years have upset many an apple cart, with the automotive marketplace being upended and scrambled numerous times. We went from no business to unbelievable demand, white-hot used car markets and a rush on new vehicles, and now we have chip shortages...
by Phil Jackson | May 5, 2022
Automobile manufacturing electrification plans are inundating our Twitter feeds, so it is good to see an OEM actually walking the talk. Volvo made news yesterday by saying that its entire model lineup for 2023 will have an electrical aspect to the powertrain. Volvo...
by Phil Jackson | Apr 21, 2022
Honda just spent $124 million dollars to build a new wind tunnel testing facility in East Liberty, Ohio. You would think that after a century’s plus worth of research and design, the auto industry would know everything it needed to know about cars and how they slice...
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...
