A recent story chronicles the struggles of a number of electric vehicle dealerships in the San Francisco area.?? Some have closed their doors, others report low sales and some are changing their focus to the commercial market and\/or their product mix.?? The latter includes switching to off-road electric vehicles and electric bikes or scooters.<\/p>\n
The factors causing a downturn for these dealerships, which primarily sell LSVs, include lower gas prices, a poor economy in which these vehicles as a second car become a luxury, and the inability to drive the vehicles on highways.?? Learn more:?? Contracostatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n Comment: <\/strong> It is not clear that this trend is a national one or local, given the level of highway use in California.?? In 2009 LSV sales were robust as a whole because of generous federal tax credits.?? I think in areas that have a history of widespread use of these vehicles as well as golf cars, electric vehicle dealerships should have a better chance of success.?? Unfortunately for many of these dealerships, they opened not too long before the economic downturn. <\/em>As the economy rebounds and electric vehicles that can attain highway speeds come to market, it will be interesting to see if these type of dealerships start to increase again. – Marc Cesare<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent story chronicles the struggles of a number of electric vehicle dealerships in the San Francisco area.?? Some have closed their doors, others report low sales and some are changing their focus to the commercial market and\/or their product … Continue reading