New Hampshire Sierra Club’s REV-UP EVs Survey and Report October 2016
By: Randy Bryan, NH Sierra Club Volunteer
Re: NH’s Auto Dealerships Plug-in Electric Vehicles Sales Practices
The New Hampshire Sierra Club conducted a survey of NH Electric Vehicle Dealerships to determine how well they handled the customer shopping experience for Plug-In Electric Vehicles [PEVs]. The NH survey was inspired by and followed the protocols of a recent national Sierra Club’s Electric Vehicle Initiative study [REV-UP EV 2016, https://content.sierraclub.org/evguide/rev-signup] conducted in the 10 CALEV-ZEV states. NH Sierra Club’s survey was the first extension, anywhere in the country, of the national Survey to a non-ZEV state.
The NH dealership results were lower than the national results for ZEV states where requirements to sell more ZEVs [PEVs] are present. NH Dealers scored lower in most measures, with negligible PEV advertising and lower PEV inventory levels [less than half] being the leading indicators. But, dealership PEV sales performance was better correlated to whether Best Practices were followed than to dealership size. A few dealerships are noted for their good handling of the surveyor’s shopping visit.
The full report is in pdf form here.
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