Electric Vehicle Dealership Coming To Moncton
DIEPPE — An electric vehicle dealership will make its way to Dieppe by next month. All EV Canada announced over the weekend that its newest dealership would open on 711 Ferdinand Boulevard.
Jérémie Bernardin, business development manager at All EV Canada, said in a video posted to social media that the full-service dealership will offer vehicle maintenance, battery health reports, and under car-care like undercoating.
“We’ll be able to do all sorts of maintenance of every single make and model of electric vehicle,” he said.
The Dieppe location is All EV Canada’s second New Brunswick dealership; the company opened another in Fredericton last year. It is also the fifth location across Atlantic Canada. The others are in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stratford, P.E.I., and St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The company’s dealerships sell a large inventory of pre-owned Teslas and other electric vehicles (EVs).
Bernardin said the Dieppe location would be open to the public by early September.
All EV Canada was founded in 2019 by a group of EV advocates and business people, including former NSCC instructor Dave Giles and Jeff Farwell, the former president of Ambassatours and Murphy’s Restaurant.
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When it set up shop in Halifax, it was the first dealership in Nova Scotia to sell exclusively used EVs.
The company grew quickly during the pandemic thanks to its efforts to educate consumers, a generally increased interest in EVs, and growing government rebates for EV purchases.
In July of 2021, Dartmouth-based auto juggernaut Steele Auto Group bought the company. At the time, Farwell told Huddle the purchase would help All EV grow and encourage electric vehicle adoption across Atlantic Canada.
“We could have continued along that route and slowly continue to add more locations. But in order for us to really accelerate growth, I think this was the strategic move,” he said.
“It made perfect sense for us to look at the Steele group as an option because they’re very like-minded, they wanted to be in the space, they’re committed to growing the EV sector,” he says.
Farwell said All EV would aim to make itself “more pronounced within Atlantic Canada” by continuing or even expanding its education courses.
Aaron Sousa is a summer intern with CHSJ/Country 94, Huddle content partners. With files from Trevor Nichols.