JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With drivers experiencing the dramatic improve in costs at gasoline pumps, a Jacksonville dealership is seeing an elevated demand for electrical and hybrid automobiles.
Robert Cook dinner is the overall gross sales supervisor at Jenkins Hyundai of Jacksonville. He stated the demand for electrical and hybrid automobiles is so excessive that it’s exhausting to maintain these automobiles on the lot.
“With the gasoline costs now greater than $4 a gallon for normal and premium near $5, we’ve had a 60 to 70% improve in EV vehicles and hybrids,” Cook dinner stated.
As of Wednesday, there have been no new or used hybrid automobiles on the lot. And the not too long ago launched all-electric Hyundai Ionic 5 didn’t final lengthy on the lot.
“We had seven of them drop final week, they usually’re all gone,” Cook dinner stated.
Notably, dealerships throughout the nation have been coping with points with regards to assembly shopper demand because of the semiconductor scarcity.
On the Hyundai dealership Wednesday, there gave the impression to be extra used than new automobiles on the lot. A brand new cargo had additionally simply arrived, however none of these automobiles have been hybrid or electrical.
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Cook dinner says individuals are calling the entrance desk and asking what’s accessible and the way lengthy it will likely be earlier than new stock of EVs and hybrids arrive. It’s now on the level the place potential consumers are being requested to pre-order the automobiles so when a cargo of recent stock arrives on the lot, the pre-ordered car is already marked as bought.
Cook dinner says his gross sales crew additionally calls different Hyundai dealerships inside a 500-mile radius to see if they’ve any additional EVs or hybrids they may very well be delivered to the lot for patrons who don’t need to pre-order.
In the long run, Cook dinner says, folks both need higher gasoline mileage in the event that they’re paying as a lot as they’re on the pump, or they need to keep away from the pump altogether.
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