> That's a pleasant contrast from our local Chevy dealer. A friend wanted to > buy a Volt. The dealer > claimed it wasn't available, so he showed them it was. Then they said they > didn't have any; so he > showed them GM's inventory list that said they did. They finally found the > car, buried way at the > back of their lot. At every opportunity, they tried to get him to buy another > car or SUV instead. >
A lot like the Chevy dealers here. The local dealer refuses to stock EVs and when I went there, they did everything the could to try to talk me out of buying an EV. So I drove 90 miles to a dealer in Tucson. They sold me a Chevy Bolt, no problems. The sales guy even told me they had a DC fast charger and I was welcome to use it at any time (during business hours), so back in January I had a bussiness trip up in Phoenix, no problem getting there, but getting home is a bit iffy since it was 170 miles on the highway with almost 5000 feet of climbing. So I stopped at the dealer in Tucson figured I'd get 20 minutes of fast charging. The service department (who is in charge of the charger) told it was not available to customers, it was only there for the service department to use in case they needed it to work on an EV. If a dealer doesn't want to share their chargers with their customers that's fine, but don't lie to them and tell them they can use it when they can't. When it comes to EVs, Chevy has some of the best engineers out there, and absolutely the WORST marketing and dealers. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
