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Distribution Division: Ford Canada replacing Bramalea, Ont. distribution centre with two smaller sites
Toronto, Ontario ⁠— Ford is reportedly closing its Bramalea, Ont. distribution centre and replacing the site with two smaller locations. “In order to improve customer satisfaction and expedite parts delivery time to dealers, Ford will be opening a new parts depot in Eastern Ontario and a new location west of Toronto to continue servicing Canada’s […]
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Tuesday Ticker: September 1, 2020
Toronto, Ontario ⁠— In this week’s Tuesday Ticker, a weekend vote from Unifor raises strike suspicions, B.C.’s ElectraMeccanica starts its electric trike production and Axalta adds to its board of directors. Weekend vote The union representing Canadian workers at the Detroit Three automakers have voted to approve strike action if needed in their contract negotiations, […]
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Communauto Commencement: Calgary’s new car-sharing service
Calgary, Alberta — Car-sharing service Communauto announced it is launching in Calgary after coming to an agreement with city officials on a “free-floating” parking policy. Beginning last week, an initial fleet of 150 Communauto Flex cars were deployed in a 26-square-kilometre area of the city, from 50th Avenue S.W. to 21st Avenue N.W., and from […]
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Best Value: Mitsubishi Mirage ES earns Vincentric Best Fleet Value in Canada award for the fourth consecutive year
Mississauga, Ontario — The Mitsubishi Mirage ES has earned the Vincentric Best Fleet Value in Canada award in the subcompact hatchback category for the fourth consecutive year. The study measured 24 scenarios and Mirage ES outperformed its competitors in a number of areas including depreciation, fees and taxes, financing, insurance, fuel costs, maintenance and repairs. […]
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Virtual Retirement: Charley Quirt shares his special memories and responsibilities at CIECA, as he plans to retire
Toronto, Ontario — Over 18 years ago, Charley Quirt joined the Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association (CIECA) as the organization’s project coordinator. He was attending a joint Architecture/Vehicle Damaging & Imaging (VDI) face-to-face meeting in Hollywood, Florida in May 2002 and a CIECA board meeting happened to be occurring at the same time. He was […]
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EV/AV Report: August 31, 2020
Toronto, Ontario — In this week’s EV/AV Report, we see two new collaborations in the EV landscape, and General Motors forms an EV-dedicated engineering team.   EV ENGINEERING TEAM General Motors is switching the engineers who created the mid engine Chevrolet Corvette to its electric vehicle team in a bid to add to its upcoming EVs […]
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Virus-Killing Rays: Self-driving car companies are experimenting with UV-light emitters
Grand Rapids, Michigan — A pair of self-driving car startups are offering a solution to concern over germs and ride sharing during the pandemic. Voyage and May Mobility are two autonomous-vehicle companies that charge riders to go on simple, specialized routes. The companies are beginning to put UV-light emitters in their shuttles to help keep […]
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Attempted Attack: Tesla factory target of an unsuccessful cyber attack
Nevada, United States — Elon Musk has confirmed that the Tesla factory in Nevada was the target of an attempted cyber attack. Musk confirmed the attack on Twitter saying “this was a serious attack,” in response to a report made by Teslarati. The report said that an employee at the Gigafactory in Reno has helped […]
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360 Experience: SEMA 2020 to be held virtually
Toronto, Ontario — SEMA has announced it will be hosting a virtual ‘SEMA360’” Nov. 2-6 in the place of the cancelled live event.  SEMA officially cancelled the live show that was supposed to run from Nov. 3-6 in Nevada earlier this month because of uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic as well as concerns the event […]
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CARSTAR MSO raises over $20,000 for local MS clinic
Edmonton, Alberta — CARSTAR Edmonton North, CARSTAR St. Albert and CARSTAR Edmonton East’s co-owner, Esther Cantafio, organized a ‘Swing for the Cure’ golf tournament which raised over $20,000 for University Hospital Foundation in support of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at the Kaye Edmonton Clinic. Melissa McCutcheon who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) last summer, […]
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A Spoiled Ride: Mercedes GLB250 recall issued for rear spoilers that detach
Toronto, Ontario — Mercedes-Benz GLB250 recall has been issued as the rear spoilers may not have been welded correctly which could result in parts of the spoilers flying off the SUVs.  The 2020 Mercedes GLB250 recall includes 11,450 SUVs, 10,644 in the U.S. and 806 in Canada. The concern is that the upper surface of the […]
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Fix Auto welcomes a new facility in Thornhill
Milton, Ontario — Fix Auto has announced a new location being added to their network called Fix Auto Thornhill.  The team at Thornhill has been in the collision industry for more than 20 years. They decided to join the Fix Auto team after being referred by another owner and operator in Markville.  “We know from […]
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