Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:00:40 +0000
Many auto companies reported 2nd quarter earnings this week and for the most part, most of the news was dismal with one notable exception.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:34:49 +0000
EV sales have grown strongly in recent years, and while we’ve explained that they’re still growing nicely in many places and for many companies, it’s also clear that we’re not in the period of the fastest growth for the industry. Most notably, we’ve just seen #1 BEV seller Tesla report … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:33:55 +0000
Auto execs were super bearish on electric vehicles (EVs) for years. They said there was very little demand for electric vehicles and EVs would remain niche (like “2% or 3% of the market” niche). This argument was made countless times in countless venues even up through the point when Tesla unveiled the Model 3 and […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:11:21 +0000
There is a trend in the auto world that drives me a bit nuts. When a company comes out with a new model, it takes time — well, a certain number of sales, which take time to achieve — before all the costs that went into designing, developing, and producing the car get paid off. […]
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:00:00 +0000
For more than 37 years, J.D. Power has been delivering yearly consumer satisfaction reports based on consumer insights, advisory services, data, and analytics. The recently released J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) Study shows that customer satisfaction with the vehicle purchase experience has declined for the first time in more than 10 years. […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:40:21 +0000
US Auto Sales: Tesla Up 97% In Q2 2022 vs. Q2 2019, Overall US Auto Sales Down 22% (942,390 Units)
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:40:21 +0000
US Auto Sales: Tesla Up 97% In Q2 2022 vs. Q2 2019, Overall US Auto Sales Down 22% (942,390 Units)
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 19:21:47 +0000
Here’s what the EV scene looked like a few years ago, pre-COVID: the legacy automakers were slow-walking the transition to EVs, producing just enough “compliance cars” to satisfy government regulators, doing nothing to market them, and insisting that customers didn’t want them. Of course, even then everyone knew this wasn’t true — Tesla had already […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:37:04 +0000
Following up on US auto sales reports for the 4th quarter of 2021 as well as the full year 2021 compared to 2020 and 2019, here is our report on US auto sales in the 1st quarter of 2021 compared to the 1st quarter of 2019 and the 1st quarter of 2020. To start with, […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 05:00:57 +0000
It’s been a busy beginning of the year already, and we’ll have more to report on that shortly, but let’s first take a stroll back a few months to look at what happened in the US auto industry in the 4th quarter of 2021. To get started, looking at the overall auto market, it was […]