[eVDub]

VW electric car buyers in Germany will have to order directly through VW. After that they will be assigned a dealer to pickup their car. Expect this agency model to roll out elsewhere in Europe and globally.

VW to shift to dealer agency model for EV sales - Charged EVs

It’s no secret that auto dealerships are a major bottleneck for EV sales. Legacy automakers may cast an envious eye on Tesla’s direct-to-customer sales model, but they cannot practically (or legally) cut the dealers out of the equation. Now Volkswagen may have found a way to solve this dilemma...

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[RobertS]

Let's see if more and more traditional automakers switch to this model.