Events & Meetings

Canadian Black Book’s annual Kathy Ward Memorial Golf Tournament raised $30,000 for the Tim Hortons Foundation Camps, on September 20th. The 24th annual tournament hosted 92 Canadian...
Industry News

With driver fatigue a factor in up to 25% of fatal or serious road collisions, Ford Motor Company is pioneering new research to develop faster and more effective ways to detect when...
Events & Meetings

Jim Pattison Lease held its annual sales conference in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. Sales and management teams from 12 locations across Canada and the United States met to...
Industry News

Subaru ranked highest in Overall Quality, Vehicle Safety and Dependability in the 2021 American Customer Satisfaction Index Survey (ACSI) Automobile Study. The study, which ranks...
Names & Places

Hertz is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Fields as interim CEO. Fields joined Hertz's Board of Directors in June. He also is a senior advisor at TPG Capital and former...
Electric Avenue

General Motors has announced its Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Centre, currently under construction, will expand the company’s battery technology operations and accelerate its...
Electric Avenue

Ford Motor Co's battery joint venture partner, Korea's SK Innovation, expects the U.S. vehicle industry to face a battery supply shortage until 2025 because of the long lead times to...
Industry News

General Motors is rolling out its new end-to-end software platform, Ultifi in vehicles starting in 2023. The software platform can be used to give owners greater access to all the...
Industry News

General Motors and Ford said Thursday they will cut additional production because of the ongoing semiconductor shortage.  GM said it will extend by two weeks a halt to Chevrolet...
Industry News

Blackberry and Ridecell have announced a collaboration to bring a next generation fleet operations and ADAS data platform to automotive OEMs via the BlackBerry IVY™ intelligent vehicle...
Electric Avenue

General Motors announced that its BrightDrop electric commercial vehicle business will add a second delivery van to its lineup in 2023 and has agreed to supply that vehicle to Verizon...
Electric Avenue

Ford Motor company and its partner SK Innovation will invest  $11.4 billion to build two new battery plants and a new EV assembly plant outside Memphis TN. The complex dubbed “Blue...
Electric Avenue

Ford has announced it is recalling close to 40,000 Mustang Mach-E battery electric vehicles over concerns improperly bonded windshields and glass roofs could come loose while driving....
Industry News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will use personal driving data to determine whether owners who have paid for its controversial “Full Self-Driving” software can access the latest...
Electric Avenue

Ford is submitting an all-electric police pilot vehicle based on the 2021 Mustang Mach-E SUV for testing as part of the Michigan State Police 2022 Model Year Police Evaluation on...
Industry News

Stellantis is exploring Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Safety Cloud® technologies in North America, giving drivers advanced notification warnings of potential hazards in their...
Electric Avenue

Fleet management company, Donlen has announced that it is joining the Climate Group’s EV100 – a group of companies dedicated to shaping the market for EVs by building demand and...
Electric Avenue

General Motors will be extending a shutdown of a Michigan assembly plant to mid-October following a new recall of its Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles over battery issues after 12...
Names & Places

Donlen is pleased to announce that Dave Dyer has joined Donlen’s Customer Experience Team as a Truck Consultation Specialist.  Based out of the Mississauga corporate office, his focus...
Electric Avenue

A new study from research firm We Predict supports the accepted knowledge that the longer an EV is owned, the more money the consumer saves. While initially, BEVs cost about 2.3 times...
© 2022 First XV. All rights reserved.