It’s Tuesday and Rick DeSilva Jr. is not washing cars like he was in the early 1980s when he started working for his dad at a dealership.

Instead, the salesman — wearing a white button-down and a warm, inviting grin — walks over to a 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 6 SEL parked at the Liberty Hyundai in Mahwah and straightens the white placard on the windshield that reads “Electric Vehicle.”