Now or Never: CARSTAR North Toronto boasts 60 percent Tesla repair mix following certification
Thornhill, Ontario — Many collision managers out there wrestle with the question of whether to get ahead and get trained on the latest electric vehicles or hold out until the demand shows up at your shop’s door—for CARSTAR North Toronto, a repair mix of 60 percent Tesla vehicles speaks for itself. CARSTAR’s communications department published […]
Crush Control: Tesla v-p of engineering shows off front-end safety design in new video
Toronto, Ontario — Tesla recently released a video of its vice president of vehicle engineering, Lars Moravy, delivering a crash course on—well, crashes, of course, and how the popular EV automaker designs its vehicles to account for all impact scenarios. In the debut edition of “Lars Explains” on Tesla’s Youtube channel, Lars Moravy walked viewers […]
Drive Yourself: Ford withdraws request to develop fully autonomous cars
Detroit, Michigan — Ford has withdrawn its petition to develop Level 4 autonomous driving systems with it National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the legacy automaker announced on March 30. The automaker told the NHTSA said the decision to cancel the request coincides with the closure of its Argo AI self-driving venture last summer. “As […]
A Shocking Trio: Tesla, GM, Ford top three in first-quarter American EV sales
Detroit, Michigan —Tesla knocked the second- and third-best-selling EV makers out of the water when it came to Q1 2023 sales numbers. Tesla says it delivered a record 422,875 units in Q1 2023. General Motors, with record-setting Chevy Bolt numbers, posted 19,700 unit sales—hot off 2022 recalls. The Cadillac Lyriq and Hummer EVs were less […]
The Adoption Equation: Industry execs suggest regulated sales targets for automakers to meet federal EV targets
Toronto, Ontario — Two industry executives aired their opinions on the federal government’s EV targets in a recent National Observer op-ed, where the pair criticized the lack of regulations requiring automakers to “keep up” with EV demand in Canada. Mark Zacharias, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, and Daniel Breton, president and CEO of Electric […]
