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- Dealers urged to review digital marketing's geographic reach
- Honda UK launches virtual showroom experience for HR-V hybrid
- EV charge points to be subject to nine-hour peak time cut-off
- Manufacturers urged to utilise 'software-driven transformation'
- How OEMs must rethink cookies' use in car buyers' online journeys, opinion
- Hyundai plans fuel cell sports car in ‘hydrogen for everyone’ strategy
- Alphera launches new website to improve user experience
- Wessex Garages launches £100k multimedia campaign to promote EVs
- iGarage app to bring dealerships and customers closer together
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Habits for a lifetime: which car retail COVID lessons are here to stay?
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of change in the UK’s motor retail industry and some observers now question whether many of the new habits will stick with consumers when everyday freedoms return.
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No stopping the march of car maker's 'surveillance capitalism'
Motorists have shown uncertainty about the transformation of car makers into tech companies and dealers could be left to explain their franchised partners’ ‘surveillance capitalism’, it has been claimed.
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Student's idea to update drivers of workshop progress wins £10k Keyloop prize
A university student's technology concept that would easily help dealers inform customers of their car's progress through service has won the inaugural Keyloop Dealer Tech university automotive technology competition.
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Target 2030: Arnold Clark CEO Eddie Hawthorne is 'committing to decarbonisation'
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will stop in the UK from 2030, as part of the Government’s “green industrial revolution”.
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Remote onboarding becoming the norm for dealers during COVID-19
The role of digital staff communication tools in motor retailers' recruitment processes
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10 minutes with... Cameron Wade, Silver Bullet managing director
As part of AM's regular '10 minutes with...' automotive retail supplier interview series, Tom Seymour, discussed 2020's rapid shift towards online car retail and what the future might hold with Silver Bullet managing director, Cameron Wade.
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Future retailing: Time for dealers to step up digital services
UK car dealers must step up their digital services or risk being left behind, as the COVID-19 pandemic has led many customers to carry out more research from their sitting rooms before they visit car showrooms to agree the deal.
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Five steps to successful e-commerce
How close is the industry to a fully-functioning online buying process? These keys may help speed it along.
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Five ways motor retailers can get the best from their websites
The mere existence of a website doesn’t guarantee its effectiveness, so how can motor retailers ensure that the web is working for them?
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Five differences in how to sell EVs and hybrids
Though volumes of all electric vehicles are likely to grow, there are some fundamental differences in selling hybrids and ‘pure’ EVs
