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The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Dealership Conversations

Element3 Wants to Turn Permian Basin Oil Wastewater Into Lithium for EV Batteries

CEO Hood Whitson calls it “a wonderful circular economy, waste-to-value story.”

Bain Survey: Car Buyers Shop Online and With AI, but 9 in 10 Still Buy at the Dealership

The digital journey keeps getting longer, and it still ends in the showroom.

Auto News 40 Under 40 Shows Why Retail Auto Is an Industry Worth Fighting to Get Into

Many honorees started in entry-level roles and worked their way into leadership, which might be our favorite thing about this industry.

🚗 $823 a month, or $952 if the trade is underwater

🚙 The average new-car payment is headed for $823, and a $28,995 Bolt just made the case for affordable EVs.

🚗 Your customer got two trade values in two days

🚙 Your week in five minutes, two podcasts for the weekend, and a woman who went over Niagara Falls on her birthday.

Only a Third of Young Adults Have a Leader Who Makes Them Excited About the Future

According to Gallup, 44% of Americans aged 18 to 29 are thriving. To count as thriving, a person has to rate their current life a 7 or higher out of 10 and their life five years from now an 8 or higher.

What a $28,995 Chevy Bolt Proved in the Deep South’s Charging Desert

Christopher Mims took a 2027 Bolt from Nashville to New Orleans, through Mississippi and Louisiana, the two states with the fewest EV chargers per person. His conclusion was that the trip was only a little less convenient than it would have been in a gas car.

Foxconn Takes Another Run at Cars With a $728 Million Stake in Mitsubishi Electric’s Auto Business

Foxconn, officially Hon Hai Precision Industry, is taking a 50% stake in Mitsubishi Electric Mobility for about 115 billion yen, or roughly $728 million. That company runs Mitsubishi Electric’s automotive equipment business. Mitsubishi Motors, the brand on your local Mitsubishi store, is a separate company and isn’t part of this deal.

🚗 The RAV4 Is Down 29% This Year

🚙 Through September, RAV4 sales fell 29.2%. Meanwhile, the CR-V and Tucson just had their best quarters ever.

Why Consistency Is the Secret to a Better Trade-In Experience

Gaughan says dealers need three things no matter what trends come and go: inventory to sell, service customers to retain, and shoppers walking through the door. And the part of the sale that causes the most friction is almost always the trade.

AI Is Squeezing the Middle of the Workforce. Here’s What Dealers Can Do.

Dealerships are full of talented people who have done one job well for years. Kramer’s point isn’t that those people are in trouble. It’s that standing still has become riskier than it used to be.