BMW, Ford, and Honda said they will together create a new equally-owned company focused on optimizing electric vehicle grid services as part of an agreement announced on September 12. “Electric grid reliability and sustainability are the foundation for an EV-powered …
Last year marked the first time ever that insurers in Canada paid more than $1 billion in claims for stolen vehicles. That point was brought forth by the Insurance Bureau of Canada, which referenced a press release from Équité Association. …
DSMA’s latest Automotive Intelligence report, its quarterly update for the second quarter of 2023, found that vehicle production and consumer demand helped enable strong sales growth for the first half of the year. Year-to-date light-vehicle sales volumes were up 7.6% …
As autonomous vehicles start to become a reality in areas like Arizona and San Francisco, technology company IDTechEx is predicting rapid growth in the number of cities that will offer robotaxi services within the next few years. At the same …
Forty-nine per cent of Canadians, nearly half of the respondents of TransUnion’s latest analysis, said they were recently targeted by a fraud scheme. At the same time, suspected digital fraud is on the rise in Canada — a problem that …
Canada’s automotive service market is on the decline — shrinking to a pre-pandemic level of $9.1 billion from $10.9 billion in 2022, according to J.D. Power’s 2023 Canada Customer Service Index—Long-Term (CSI-LT) Study. The report, released on September 7, measures …
A forecast from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants predicting that 2023 may be one of those rare years in which we see an increase in vehicle sales, while also experiencing a broader economic recession, is looking decidedly on track. According to DAC, …
Last month Linda Nadon, the business development manager for Canadian Auto Dealer and editor of its sister magazine Affaires automobiles, took up a cycling challenge and collected more than $2,000 — more donations than any other participant — that will …
Honda announced on September 7 that it will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for electric vehicle models set to go on sale in 2025 in North America. The Japanese OEM is not the first to announce that it …
The Electrical Safety Authority, which aims to increase public electrical safety in Ontario, conducted a safety blitz on electric vehicle charger installations in Toronto and found more than 400 incidents of working without an ESA permit. According to ESA, working …
The adoption of electric vehicles in the United States is becoming increasingly divided, according to J.D. Power’s latest E-Vision Intelligence Report. On a nationwide basis, EV adoption rates continue to grow steadily: sales now represent 8.6% of the total new-vehicle …
Daily commutes by means of a vehicle, to work and back home, may have declined during the pandemic — but those numbers are on the rise again. A survey conducted for the British Columbia Automobile Association by Leger shows that …
