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It's a good read about a pretty short road trip that sounds very inconveniently planned due to their ride being an EV. http://www.motortrend.com/cars/chevrolet/bolt-ev/2017/2017-chevrolet-bolt-ev-review-long-term-update-7/ I know @ocnblu will appreciate this. ?

Mercedes-Benz USA reports April sales of 27,207 units, up 1.0% May 1, 2018 – ATLANTA: Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported April sales of 27,207 units, an increase of 1.0% from the 26,932 vehicles sold during the same time period last year. Mercedes- Benz Vans reported best-ever April sales of 2,815 units (up 28.4%) and smart reported 93 units, bringing MBUSA to a grand total of 30,115 vehicles for the month (up 2.1%). On a year-to-date basis, Mercedes-Benz recorded sales of 105,681, adding 11,001 units for Vans and 414 vehicles for smart, MBUSA's year-to-date sales volume totaled 117,096. "April sales are leading us into a solid second quarter," said Dietmar Exler, president and CEO of MBUSA. "We continue to see strong demand for our SUVs, and our increasingly diverse product line up will continue this momentum as we enter into the summer months." Mercedes-Benz volume leaders in April included the GLC, C-Class and GLE model lines. The GLC took the lead at 5,853, followed by C-Class sales of 5,148. The GLE rounded out the top three with 4,110 units sold. Mercedes-AMG high-performance models sold 2,707 units in April, with a total of 10,326 units sold year-to-date. Mercedes-Benz Passenger Vehicles Apr-18 Apr-17 Monthly % YTD 2018 YTD 2017 Yearly % B-CLASS 7 66 -89.4% 129 225 -42.7% CLA 1,910 1,067 79.0% 7,365 5,077 45.1% C-CLASS 5,148 7,821 -34.2% 18,498 28,440 -35.0% E-CLASS/CLS 3,945 4,059 -2.8% 16,380 16,375 0.0% S-CLASS 1,535 1,491 3.0% 6,100 5,139 18.7% SLC/SLK 197 326 -39.6% 783 1,191 -34.3% SL 202 270 -25.2% 842 994 -15.3% AMG GT 178 87 104.6% 559 364 53.6% GLA 2,011 1,339 50.2% 8,535 7,254 17.7% GLC 5,853 3,305 77.1% 22,113 12,261 80.4% GLE 4,110 4,468 -8.0% 15,766 17,374 -9.3% GLS 1,794 2,265 -20.8% 7,290 10,006 -27.1% G-CLASS 317 368 -13.9% 1,321 1,373 -3.8% TOTAL 27,207 26,932 1.0% 105,681 106,073 -0.4% Vans1 2,815 2,193 28.4% 11,001 9,626 14.3% smart 93 365 -74.5% 414 1,426 -71.0% MBUSA Combined Total Apr-18 Apr-17 Monthly % YTD 2018 YTD 2017 Yearly % GRAND TOTAL 30,115 29,490 2.1% 117,096 117,125 0.0% 1 Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner Sprinter and Metris Vans are sold and marketed in the U.S. by Mercedes-Benz USA and Daimler Vans USA, respectively.

That name would be perfect for an EV....

Yeah it's a hard pass on full EVs for awhile yet. And this is an infrastructure in CALIFORNIA which probably has the most EVs on their roads!

And the idea of $40k for a subcompact is laughable...

I fully expect a 3-row from Jeep... but making it a vanilla crossover with no off-road capability isn't the way to go about it.

Exactly! There just seem to be way more sacrifices than there should be in a $40,000 vehicle.

Interesting read... too much drama and range anxiety for a simple road trip. Electric vehicles and charging infrastructure still have a ways to go to beat the simplicity of ICE reality...I take off on a drive, knowing there are gas stations everywhere, it takes 5 min at most to fill up, and I have a 25 gallon tank and get 20 mpg, nothing to stress over...

I meant Escape and Edge. Oops. Flex is about dead anyway.

The rest of the line is, but the GLE/GLS came out in 2011 or 2012, they are by far the oldest things in Merc's line up, the GLE still uses the 3.5 V6 that the E-class dumped 2-3 years ago and they are also to heavy. They are moving to an all new platform.

You say this as if it is bad news.

Bentley sold about 2400 vehicles in 2017. EVs/ plug-ins are about 1% of the market. 1% of 2400 is 24 units, or 2/mnth. No one is crying over a lack of Bentley EVs. That aside, a car in this price tier should be offering 500 miles on E power, or literally don't bother.

All of FCA is down except Alfa which is up 40,000 percent! FCA overall is up, almost entirely because of Fiat! There you go, kill everything except Jeep Ram and Fiat!

Instead of these car companies worrying about how to have nicer showrooms or facilities why don’t they worry about figuring a way for people to buy a car in less than 5 hours? And as far as service goes for Genesis, just have a drop off location, give people a loaner car for the day and call/text them when their car is done and they come pick it up. That is no brainer then what the service area looks like doesn’t matter. These car companies over think things.

They need that new GLE/GLS soon, the age is showing on those two. C-class has a refresh coming this summer, so I don't think much cause for worry there.

All Ford's SUVs are down. Now that they have given up on cars, they better hope those SUVs sell because down 16%, down 19% for the 2 hottest segments in Flex and Edge is pretty bad.