Breaking Barriers: Crash tests indicate electric vehicles are too heavy for highway guardrails
Toronto, Ontario — 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. On Wednesday, 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 […]
Upstanding EV: Rivian R1T earns IIHS Top Safety Pick+ in crash tests
Toronto, Ontario — In what was certainly a long journey to reach Canadian roads, both for prospective owners and the OEM itself, Rivian can proudly boast that its 2022 R1T electric pickup earned an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ award this past week. In addition to a strong showing in the driver-side small overlap front impact […]
Tuesday Ticker: May 24, 2022
Toronto, Ontario — Ford throws seven million more Rivian shares up for sale while Uber tries to offset its losses in Collision Repair’s weekly Tuesday Ticker. Red-tag item, Rivian Last week, it was reported Ford Motor Co. had offloaded eight million shares in electric vehicle startup Rivian. On Monday, May 16, the automaker sold a […]
Lightning in the Distance: Ford F-150 Lightning deliveries pushed to September
Toronto, Ontario — Customers will have to wait a little bit longer to get behind the wheel of the new electric version of Canada’s most popular pickup truck, as Ford issued an update that pushes back the F-150 Lightning’s rollout window to September. The update provided by Ford representatives stated that production on the F-150 […]
