Service And Parts

Electric vehicles and the future of fixed ops

Anna Nguyen?s electric Nissan Leaf gets her perks such as reserved parking in her hometown of Austin, Texas. Although Nguyen and other EV owners are still a small minority, the market is poised to explode in the next decade ? and transform auto service?in the process. (THAO NGUYEN)

December 18, 2017 05:00 AM

Electric vehicles account for just six of every 1,000 new cars and trucks sold in the United States. But it won't stay that way much longer: In 2017, hardly a month passed without a major global automaker announcing plans to boost its production of EVs.

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