Cazoo to take on 自動車 仲買人 as a used car marketplace as it stops car sales and sells off 在庫／株

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Online car 販売人 Cazoo is selling off used car 在庫／株 and will 移行 into a car marketplace, it told 投資家s last week.

In an '採択 of a marketplace model' Cazoo 目的（とする）s to take on 自動車 仲買人, モーターs and AA Cars.?

Cazoo will let people sell cars online, 生成する leads for dealerships and connect モーター 仲買人s with 販売人s' モーターs.

It's 現在／一般に 'unwinding' its 在庫／株 off its used cars, transporters and 顧客 care centres through 小売 and 卸売 channels.

With more than 3,500 cars 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d on its e-商業 壇・綱領・公約, around a tenth of which are electric 乗り物s, this could see an influx of used EVs become 利用できる at 割引d prices.

The UK's used car market grew by 5.1 per cent in 2023, thanks to re-energised 供給（する）, levelling prices and a 記録，記録的な／記録する year for electric 乗り物 (EV) sales.?

Sales of EVs almost 二塁打d in 2023 - up by 90.9 per cent - to 119,000 部隊s, the SMMT said.?This was a 記録，記録的な／記録する level with EVs now accounting for 1.6 per cent market 株 ? up 0.9 per cent from 2022.

Used EV 供給（する）s 増加するd as more models entered the market and more drivers were able to 購入（する） いっそう少なく expensive second and third-手渡す 殴打／砲列 cars.?

設立するd in 2019 by Zoopla and Love Film entrepreneur Alex Chesterman, Cazoo 始める，決める out to 混乱に陥れる／中断させる the 'inconvenient' used car 貿易（する） with a 商売／仕事 model based on Carvana in the US. Cars could be bought 完全に online and 配達するd to your door.

Chesterman left the 商売／仕事 in 2023.?Most 最近の 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Paul Whitehead will step 負かす／撃墜する at the end of the month, but will stay in an （a）忠告の／（n）警報 役割 until May to 監督する this 移行.

In its 声明 to 株主s Cazoo said 'it will be '移行ing to a pure play 自動推進の marketplace'.?

'This will てこ入れ／借入資本 our 重要な advantages: our brand, which is recognisable and 信用d 全国的な, and our 科学（工学）技術 壇・綱領・公約, which 供給するs a market 主要な 顧客 experience, and which will build on the 需要・要求する from 顧客s and UK 売買業者s to transact online.

'The 採択 of a marketplace model てこ入れ／借入資本s Cazoo's market-主要な e-商業 壇・綱領・公約 and the more than £100 million 投資 in the Cazoo brand.?

'The brand is now one of the 最高の，を越す five most recognised UK 自動推進の brands and has enabled Cazoo to sell の近くに to 160,000 小売 cars 完全に online since 2019.?

'The board believes Cazoo will bring fresh 適切な時期s for 売買業者s in the 高度に fragmented used car market, 供給するing Britain's car 売買業者s with an online 壇・綱領・公約 to 申し込む／申し出 their 乗り物s to the one million 消費者s on 普通の／平均（する） who visit Cazoo's website every month.'

The 戦略 switch to take on some of the biggest online モーター 仲買人s in the UK follows Cazoo's 警告 to 投資家s in December that it had '限られた／立憲的な liquidity'.?

職業 losses have been 発表するd but numbers are yet to be 確認するd.

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