New vehicle registrations were down in 2022, declining 9.6% from the first quarter of 2021 to 339,820, according to the numbers released earlier this week by the Government of Canada. Sales of gas-powered vehicles fell the most with 13.2% fewer …
As Porsche prepares for an initial public offering, they are placing their bets on the future profitability of their EV divisions, Bloomberg reports. Porsche executives are clearly focusing on the EV revolution as a positive situation, not a hurdle to …
We are old enough to remember when economists, sociologists, and futurologists alike, predicted the end of the long hours culture in favour of a new utopia called the “leisure society.” The argument ran in the 1960s and 1970s that technology …
In 2020 and 2021, responses to the the J.D. Power APEAL questionnaire crowned Porsche as the most appealing brand in the luxury segment and Dodge as the most appealing mainstream brand. With the 2022 study results out, seems we’re having …
For the first time in nearly two decades, British luxury manufacturer Aston Martin is updating its iconic wing logo. The West Midlands-based company is undergoing what it calls an evolution, rebranding itself with a focus on motorsports and high performance. …
Solid state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of electric cars by 39 per cent, according to a new report commissioned by environmental advocacy group Transport & Environment (T&E). Compiled by Minviro, a company that does raw material lifecycle analyses, …
Electric-vehicle advocates and early adopters have long maintained the experience of learning about EVs, shopping for them, and buying them is better at those few brands that sell directly to buyers—Tesla foremost, now also Lucid and Rivian—than at conventional third-party …
While vehicles without driver controls are not currently allowed on US roads, automakers are allowed to submit petitions for exemptions, provided they have a good enough reason, and both Ford and GM think they do. The National Highway Traffic Safety …
A 26-year-old Montreal entrepreneur who is a graduate of the Georgian College Automotive Business School and worked at a dealership for several years has started a service to give dealers high-quality leads from customers looking to buy used cars. Guy-Oliver …
One of the most important variables for the vehicle aftermarket is kilometres driven, having bearing on a wide range of aftermarket categories. Though there have been recent reports indicating that, in the latter six months of 2021, Canadians drove more …
Reynolds and Reynolds has joined the steering committee of the organization Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) with the aim of further integrating their existing products to increase efficiencies and productivity for their clients. STAR has been developing voluntary …
The wholesale market as a whole continues to slightly decline, down -0.26%, more than the 2017-2019 average, which was -0.21%, according to Canadian Black Book. The Canadian wholesale market for used cars was down -0.40%, compared to being down -0.22% …
