Cox Automotive, the owner of KBB – or Kelley Blue Book, if you prefer – released a very interesting study on EV adoption. Mostly trying to understand why it is taking so long to spread. It has interviewed dealers and customers to get the whole picture.After speaking about the dealers’ ...
Originated by the Kelley Blue Book Company, which was acquired by AutoTrader.com and Cox Automotive, the guidebook is not to be confused with other titles referred to as “blue books,” such as the Social Security Blue Book that lists disabling impairments. In addition to the Blue Book, the...
Cox Automotive did not mention the fact that Tesla was the first company that made EVs desirable with theRoadster.GMandToyotahave tried to build EVs – respectively with the EV1 and the RAV4 EV – way before Tesla, but they were mostly research or compliance vehicles. More Cox Automotive EV...
How will Automotive Digital Retailing Affect my Finance & Insurance Profits? This is one of the most asked digital retailing questions we've gotten this year. Financing might generally be the biggest hurdle when it comes to selling vehicles. When it comes to online finance and insurance, we hav...
Lenders may seize, or repossess, cars when buyers fall behind on payments. Repossessions in the third quarter of 2024 rose 18% from a year earlier, according to data published this monthby Cox Automotive, which estimated that 1.7 million vehicles would be repossessed this year, up from 1.5 ...
In general terms, an ePTO is deployed on a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) with a (traction) battery-powered hydraulic power source that operates with a motor, pump and inverter, using vehicle battery power (as a “take off”) from the vehicle’s primary batteries to power work functions on ...
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Research from Cox Automotive publishedearlier this yearfound that pickup buyers will continue to be brand-loyal, even as electric models enter the scene. That suggests that the Cybertruck would not have been more likely to succeed if it had been more traditional, so appealing to people who aren...
While used car prices are up compared to pre-pandemic, buying used is still far less expensive than buying new. The average used car price was $25,638 as of February 2024, compared to around $47,142 for new cars, according to Cox Automotive. But saving money shouldn’t be the only ...
If you’re new to EVs or just curious about what a road trip with an EV is like, here are the lessons I learned from my cross-state drive.