As EV adoption crawls along, automakers are increasingly releasing hybrid vehicles as alternative options to EVs and traditional gas-powered engines.
Car buyers entering dealer showrooms for the foreseeable future may have a new challenge: an alphabet soup of"electrified" vehicle offerings.
DETROIT — Purchasing a vehicle has never been that easy. But shoppers entering traditional dealer showrooms for the foreseeable future may have a new challenge: An alphabet soup of"electrified" vehicle offerings., automakers are increasingly releasing various hybrid vehicles as alternative options to EVs and traditional gas-powered engines.
"Every automaker is using different terms. There's no standardization, and that causes some confusion on the consumer side," Waatti said.also use traditional nameplates such as the Chevrolet Blazer and Equinox for new EVs that share little to nothing with their gas-powered counterparts other than the name.
"We don't want to force a customer to do something they're not ready for," Kia America VP of Marketing Russell Wager told CNBC earlier this year."We're trying our best to educate them."Kia and its dealers have put out myth-busting pages online to answer concerns or frequently asked questions about EVs and hybrids. They range from technical questions about batteries to practical questions like whether you can go through a car wash in an EV .
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