Jan 27 2010
Signs of a small trend at battery
Each January, the Detroit Auto Show leaves images of fanciful machines revving in our heads - space-age cars, electric vehicles and creations that are fully conceptual.
This year’s version of the show dazzled with concept cars focused on environmentally conscious technologies, and while they’re fun for an imaginative romp, what about real life? What is available in Sioux Falls now? And to what degree have people in the area embraced “green” cars?
When South Dakotans turned in their old vehicles as part of the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, as it turned out, they bought a lot of pickups. But Kevin Rost, general sales manager at Sioux Falls Ford Lincoln Mercury, said that even here in truck country, he and his sales people are learning how to serve a new kind of customer - the green buyer Inspiron 1720 battery , Inspiron 1721 battery .
We have always had families, we have older generation buyers, we have truck buyers, budget buyers, and now we have eco-buyers,” Rost said. “It is more than a niche. The hybrid and the eco-green mentality is a whole consumer segment.”
Scott Jacobson, general manager of Billion Automotive, said he is seeing the same thing.
Hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles are a “trend that is going to be something that is permanent,” Jacobson said. “Especially the way GM’s new cars are getting 38 to 40 miles to the gallon and how they’re constantly improving the fuel economy for the pickup.”
When the auto show awarded its North American Car of the Year to the Ford Fusion earlier this month, Rost said it was “the best news we had all year.”
He has two of the front-wheel-drive, hybrid sedans on the lot, priced at about $32,000.
“We’ve had a lot of inquiries on the vehicle,” he said. “We’ve always had the supply to meet the demand for the vehicle.”
Price of vehicles creates the interest
The enduring truth in the burgeoning new subset of hybrid vehicles, Rost said, is that, “There is a direct correlation between the price in fuel and the interest in hybrid technology. Inspiron E1405 battery , XPS M140 With fuel prices popping up, we’ll see the demand grow again.”
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