It's hard to see a retail environment in 2032 where 67 percent of new-car sales are full EVs, but it's very easy to see a 2032 where a majority of new-car sales are plug-in hybrids.
Tensions between automakers and their dealers are not rooted in the conventional give-and-take over cost shifts or how the earnings pie is divided, but rather in threats that go to the very core of the franchise system that underlies the factory-dealer relationship, NADA President Mike Stanton writes.