Love Triumphs Over COVID: Impromptu Wedding in Auto Dept. Of Illinois Blain’s Farm & Fleet
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oglesby native and front-line nurse, Mary Kate Vollmer, tied the knot with her fiancé, trial attorney, Evan Sloan, at their local Blain’s Farm & Fleet in Montgomery, IL. The couple made the spur-of-the-moment decision after Evan’s 90-Year-Old Grandmother received a COVID-19 Diagnosis. Evan and Mary Kate put their wedding dreams on hold during the […]
Credit Karma Launches Karma Drive, a Simple Way to Qualify for an Auto Insurance Discount in as Few as 30 days
With Karma Drive, Credit Karma members in the U.S. can see if they qualify for a discount on a new auto insurance policy from Progressive Insurance OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Credit Karma, LLC, the consumer technology platform with more than 110 million members in the U.S., Canada and U.K., continues expansion of its auto insurance offerings with […]
Robotic Research Publishes White Paper Spotlighting Automated Bus Rapid Transit in the Future of Urban Transportation
CLARKSBURG, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Robotic Research LLC, one of the world’s leading autonomous technology providers, today released a new white paper titled “Automated Bus Rapid Transit: A New Mode for High-Quality, High-Capacity Transit Corridors.” This whitepaper summarizes how automated vehicle technologies significantly enhance the quality and capacity of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), creating a new form of […]
Nexar Joins the Automotive Edge Computing Consortium
WAKEFIELD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) today announced that Nexar, a vision-based software company whose aftermarket dash cams enable crowd-sourced vision-based applications for better driving, has joined the organization as a member. By collaborating with the AECC and its members, Nexar will ensure that new technologies and standards meet the connected vehicle ecosystem’s […]
Fisker and Magna Enter Into Definitive Agreements
Fisker and Magna sign the definitive platform agreement and initial manufacturing agreement, just two months on from the original framework agreements Fisker and Magna achieved Preliminary Product Specification (PPS) engineering gateway on schedule in November 2020 LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fisker Inc. (NYSE: FSR) (Fisker) – designer and manufacturer of the world’s most emotion-stirring, eco-friendly electric […]
Perceive and achieve – Solve your capacity-planning conundrum with ProgiPlanning
BY JULIA LLOYD AND ALLISON ROGERS Running a well-oiled collision centre can be challenging—but Progi has a solution. Last week, Charles Aubry, account manager at Progi took the CCIF virtual stage to discuss how the ProgiPlanning software, combined with a capacity planning mindset, can help collision repair facilities establish a capacity-planning ecosystem. ProgiPlanning is more […]
Shifting Gears – NAIT navigates hands-on learning in unprecedented times
BY JULIA LLOYD Amid the pandemic, many students have been forced to take education into their own hands, pursuing courses from home via the internet—but students of skilled trades don’t have the luxury of remote learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a massive shift in the realms of education as university and college students across […]
Report cards issued – Repairers give insurers the grades
BY ALLISON ROGERS Traditionally, collision repairers and auto insurances have a delicate—even quarrelsome relationship. Add a global pandemic into the mix and things become a little more muddled. For the past two years, Collision Repair has asked the Canadian collision repair community to issue grades for the nation’s big players in auto insurance. The areas […]
SEMA Online – The first ever virtual SEMA show impressed the industry
Las Vegas, Nevada – This year, SEMA ditched the grand Vegas show floor of years past and took its industry-wide event fully virtual with SEMA360, showing that even in an unpredictable year like 2020, the auto industry will keep on motoring. This year’s event saw new innovations to the SEMA platform, as well as the […]
Stars and Cars – GFS shows off new curing systems, holds virtual car show at 2020 summit
BY MAX REID Global Finishing Solutions (GFS) held it’s virtual 2020 Auto Refinishing Summit in late October, drawing attendees from across the auto refinishing industry for a week of insider news and contests. From October 26th through the 31st, GFS treated attendees to a wide array of event programming, from a virtual car show to […]
