Fixed Ops Journal - December 2020 - F10
FIXED OPS JOURNAL
TAKING CHARGE
Strategies to keep BEVs from zapping your service lane revenue
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Richard Truett
rtruett@crain.com
d Roberts, fixed ops director at
Bozard Ford-Lincoln in St. Augustine, Fla., has been thinking
a lot lately about how Ford's
first three battery-electric vehicles - the Mustang Mach-E
arriving this month, the E-Transit van coming
late next year and the battery-powered F-150
planned for 2022 - will start to upend his
store's fixed operations business model.
Roberts expects visits to his service department by owners of those battery-electric vehicles and the ones that come after will drop by
50 percent over those customers who drive
traditional gasoline- or diesel-engine vehicles. Not only that, but the dollar per repair
order for EVs also is going to plunge.
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" We do think about it. We have to prepare
ourselves for it, " says Bozard's Ed Roberts.
A recent study by consulting firm McKinsey
& Co. estimates repair tickets for BEVs will
shrink between 40 and 50 percent. Some of
the reasons for the lower revenue per ticket
include: BEV brake pads could last 100,000
miles or more; BEVs don't require oil changes;
and over-the-air software upgrades will keep
customers out of the service lane.
Roberts figures his technicians might service the average BEV just once a year. Figuring
out how to continue building revenue in this
new reality has been top of mind for him.
" We do think about it. We have to prepare
ourselves for it, " he told Fixed Ops Journal.
At LaFontaine Automotive Group, which operates nearly two dozen stores in Michigan, service directors say they are not worried - yet -
about BEVs lowering fixed ops revenues. But
that doesn't mean LaFontaine is sitting idly by.
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