EVEN Electric is the world’s first global sales and distribution network for electric vehicle transportation.
Launched in Ottawa, ON, EVEN offers multi-brand new and pre-owned vehicles through an innovative retail and online customer experience.
“The traditional dealership model has proven unable to deliver the sales and service experience that EV owners want and need,” said Mike Elwood, CEO of EVEN. “Our EVEN model was developed to combine the best aspects of both an on-line and in-store retail experience to make it easy for EV customers to find and acquire exactly what they want, when and where they want it.”
EVEN will also significantly lower costs across the entire supply chain by optimizing the flow of EVs directly to the global markets when and where they’re needed, company officials said.
EVEN will maintain electric vehicle inventories at efficient and cost-effective centralized processing centers in key countries.
Once selected, a vehicle will be shipped to the nearest ‘Customer Centre,’ a streamlined and less capital intensive version of a dealership. Vehicle deliveries – as well as service – can occur at either the Customer Centre, or directly in an owner’s driveway.
Simultaneously, EVEN is engaging and consulting with governments, fleets and NGOs to more fully participate in development of EV infrastructure and deployment. Elwood said that in addition to recent successes in Iceland, EVEN is in advanced discussions with locations in Canada, Norway, Panama, Ireland, Belgium and the U.K. with others coming on line.
A number of partners are coming forward to support the new venture including Microsoft which has provided software to enable the backend of the business where customers can get information, compare vehicles, scan inventories and even place their vehicle order.
Rajani Baburajan