Here are our guests for today’s Daily Dealer Live: - @alex_perdikis, CEO-Owner of Koons Motors - @Evautoalex, CEO of EV Auto - Brian Wieland, Used Inventory Director at Van Horn Automotive Group See you all soon!

Come ask some questions @elonmusk 😊 And anyone, really!

Not every store has a TikTok star, and not every GM wants to be one: But in 2025, every dealer serious about selling cars is figuring out where social media fits, and how to make it scale. At Cavender Auto Group, Eric Barbosa built a system that turns staff into creators. Ten posts a day, split across platforms, personal brands, and the main store page. It’s low-budget, high-discipline—and it has helped Cavender grow sales volume from 1,200 to 1,750 units. Some dealers are skipping the internal build and going straight to full-service content agencies. EV Auto’s Alex Lawrence went from DIY iPhone videos to selling five cars off TikTok leads in one day. His team now handles hundreds of inbound messages daily. Then there’s Mohawk Honda, where Nathanael Greklek built an in-house team from scratch. Twelve pieces of content per day across every platform. They’ve cut ad production costs and turned social into a full-blown brand engine. There’s no one “right” approach. But the difference is in the execution. And in a world where customer acquisition costs keep rising and brand trust keeps falling, organic social media reach is becoming the backbone of a modern retail strategy. Read The Breakdown here, together with @gokenect : carguymedia.com/43HgYZV

Top five moment in my career was giving this deserving single mom a free minivan with service, tires etc for life at the Lehi @evautodotcom Grand Opening. Not a marketing stunt. It’s our North Star cause to give these away over and over again. First of many. Very personal cause for us! It was really dusty outside that day so my eyes watered a little 😊 Link to the video: Single Mother Surprised With Free Minivan! youtu.be/w9FIWejhRis

Daily Dealer Live is starting soon! Here are our guest call-ins today: - Brian Benstock, Partner GM of Paragon Honda (@bbenstock ) - Curtis Biggs, General Manager of NewRoads Mazda - Alex Lawrence, CEO of EV Auto (@Evautoalex )

[NEWS] Used Tesla prices are tanking: But EV Auto is turning markdowns into momentum. Model 3 values are down 10.6% year over year. Cybertruck? Nearly 50%. The culprit: Elevated inventories—and older, high-mileage Teslas flooding the market. Still, EV Auto isn’t sweating it. Instead, they’re leaning into $4K tax credits, clean pricing, and a deep bench of in-demand Model 3s and Ys. The result: 60 more units sold in April vs. March. And 12 Teslas moved in 48hrs on their 2nd lot. Bottom line: For dealers who know how to position EVs, it’s prime time—because as CEO Alex Lawrence put it—demand is (largely) still being driven by features, colors, and price. Not by Elon’s political moves. Read today’s top automotive stories, presented by @HaigPartners : carguymedia.com/3Z1EBe8 (Data source: CarGurus / Cars.com / CNBC)

Very excited about this at @evautodotcom … years in the making! Goal is to give away great cars every week with all expenses covered to wonderful single moms around the country. Nominations form here: bit.ly/evautogiveaway

Here we go! EV Auto location number three is in … Nashville, TN! Who lives in that area? Couldn’t be more excited. Opening Fall of 2025!

I love @WeberStateU and am so happy we have seven alums working at @evautodotcom as of today. These graduates are all incredible members of our team. Well prepared, highly trained and best of all, full of Wildcat Grit! We will hire many, many more. The latest Wildcat on the team is Parker Eaton, a new graduate from the world renowned automotive program at WSU. He’s been well trained in all things EV and will hit the ground running! Thanks @WeberStateU for doing such an incredible job educating these grads to make immediate big impacts in the real world.

We are launching our EV Service business with mobile trucks in Utah (Wasatch Front, St. George and Lehi) as well as Denver, Colorado and Orange County, California. If you know anyone send them my way!

Utah’s first and only dedicated EV and Plug-In Hybrid Service Center opening in Lehi late April. Signs went up today!

I've been working with a team for months to build an AI voice that answers phones at EV Auto when we are too busy or are closed. This is connected to my actual inventory and we've trained "Amy" to match our style, too. Will you call it and let me know what you think? 1-878-688-7372 Please be a "normal" customer -- ask questions about cars, prices, trade-ins, financing, ev tax credits and so on. And put any thoughts or suggestions here if you would? Thank you! It's about 85% of the way there but is pretty darn good.

Lehi sign is up! It’s huge. Much bigger than Bountiful. Sales and Utah’s only EV Service Center opening in April.

Please share this to help us get our car back from WILLIAM CHAD CHARLESWORTH (goes by Chad) most recently living in the Davis County, Utah area. The car is a 2016 Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Hybrid that is maroon with lime green brake calipers and accents. Thank you for your help!

We are opening our first dealership outside of Utah! Five years of planning, working and building towards this moment. So exciting! Any guesses where? We have another out of state announcement AND an in-state announcement coming soon as well. Double Down All In LET'S GO!

@evautodotcom mobile service enters the chat … Launching next week with seven appointments and counting.

Letting the newest marketing machine for @evautodotcom rip a little yesterday. These Hummer EV’s from @GMC are incredible machines: 9,000 pound weight 1,000 horsepower 12,000 pound towing capacity 11,500 pound feet of torque 0-60 in THREE seconds … will crush most sports cars 🤯 Also: Self-Driving Four Wheel Steering Whisper quiet and smooth Roof comes off like a Jeep (so fun) … and they get a ton of website clicks, organic social sharing and inbound foot traffic.

The @evautodotcom Cybertruck has a new license plate to match the new look.

"I wake up every day thinking it might all end.” The used EV market is an absolute rollercoaster… So how do you succeed as an EV dealer? @evautoalex, one of the top used EV dealers in the country, explains why you have to go all in.

Let’s goooooooo!!!