A recent Rural Lifestyle Dealer survey found that 86.1% of rural lifestyle dealers carry some form of electric outdoor power equipment at their dealership. Electric mowers followed at 66.7%, and 5.6% of dealers carried electric compact tractors or electric compact construction equipment.

In this installment of our 5 Questions With… series, we sat down with Mike Rittler, head of Retail Card Services at TD Bank, to learn about what TD Bank does and examine the results of a dealer survey they conducted at the 2022 Equip Expo. 

According to the results of Rural Lifestyle Dealer’s annual dealer survey, just one-third of dealers anticipate sales growth of at least 2% this year. That breaks a string of 5 straight years where at least half of dealers anticipated growth heading into the new year. 

With a total mean score of 6.12, Wright Mfg. took the lead among OPE manufacturers in this year’s Equipment Dealers Assn. (EDA) Dealer-Manufacturer Relations Survey.