CURRENT CONSIDERATIONS
REPAIRING EVS VS. ICE VEHICLES BY MICHAEL VAVAROUTSOS There are some major differences—and tools—required for electric vehicle repairs, compared to ICE vehicles. For starters, EVs have a high voltage battery and high currents circulating through the entire unit. That’s the first maze the collision repair technician is faced with when they take on an EV. […]
WATTS THE STATUS?
A BREAKDOWN OF BATTERY-ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON CANADIAN ROADS Every time your head hits the pillow, there are more electric vehicles on Canadian roads. Close to 185,000 new zero-emissions vehicles were registered in Canada last year; a 49 percent increase over 2022. Eleven percent of all new vehicle registrations last year were zero-emissions vehicles. Our reporters […]
FIT FOR THE FUTURE
NEW DIGS AND FRESH EV REPAIR KNOWLEDGE HAS WEINS COLLISION CENTRE PREPPED FOR THE FUTURE BY ALLISON ROGERS You know what they say: beauty is pain. The team at WEINS Collision Repair Centre’s Woodbine Avenue location in Markham, Ontario, knows that very well. The facility recently underwent years of construction, literally trekking through the mud […]
PLUGGED IN
QUEBEC GETS ELECTRIC EDUCATION AT COLLISION REPAIR MAG EV REPAIR TOUR, SUPPORTED BY FIX NETWORK The Quebecois collision repair industry is one step closer to being prepared for the electric vehicle revolution. With more than 260,000 zero-emissions vehicles on Quebec roads, it’s critical this market is prepared for EV claims and repairs. On September 18, […]
WHIMSY NEWS
FLYING SPORTSTERS An Oregon, U.S.-based aircraft manufacturer Samson Sky was recently granted a patent for a flying hybrid-electric sports car. Dubbed the ‘Switchblade,’ the design shows wings that spread from the side of vehicle and a tail that expands in fewer than three minutes. The vehicle-plane hybrid, which operates on hybrid-electric system that also takes […]
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
DEGRADATION DEMANDS There is no statistically significant difference in battery degradation regardless of whether an EV battery is charged with a fast charger more than 70 percent of the time or less than 30 percent of the time. In a recent study of 13,000 Teslas, Recurrent, an organization that aims to make EV information more […]
TRAINING NEWS
ELECTRIC LEARNING This year’s 2024 SEMA Show will offer attendees the exclusive opportunity to become EV and EV safety-certified. The 2024 SEMA show will take place from November 5 through November 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with each of the two EV certification sessions to be run by Legacy EV on November 6 from 9 […]
INDUSTRY NEWS
INDUSTRY NEWS Engineers with the University of Nebraska’s road safety testing facility have discovered that electric vehicles are too heavy to be stopped by highway guardrails. Engineers with the university released their initial crash test results in which a 2022 Rivian R1T—which weighs nearly four tonnes—was rammed into the same type of guardrails used along […]
SPARKING SUCCESS
LEADING THE CHARGE IN EV REPAIR BY DARRYL SIMMONS Welcome to another issue of EV Repair magazine, your go-to source for everything related to electric vehicle (EV) collision repair in Canada. This publication is all about the connection between zero-emission, high-voltage vehicles and the collision repair industry, helping everyone from shop owners to insurers understand […]
