Canada’s new car market is down
With half-a-year down, so is the market for new cars New vehicle sales in Canada ended the first half of 2019 the same way they started — in steady decline. June’s 185,741 new vehicle sales were down 7.2% from the …
Author: Gerry Malloy
Canadian auto sales dip extends through May
Continuing the trend that has now extended for 15 consecutive months, new-vehicle sales in Canada declined again in May 2019. Sales of 202,800 units were down 5.9% from the same month last year, which were themselves down from their record …
Bringing order to chaos
Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium” aims to help safe introduction of autonomous vehicles. Almost all the world’s leading automakers, along with a host of non-automotive players, are in a race to bring fully autonomous vehicles to market. Not the least of …
Canadian auto sales continue downward slide
It has been more than a year now since new-vehicle sales in Canada began their steady decline and April’s results continue that trend, down 3.5% from a year ago to 185,158 units. It should be noted that the total market …
The case for rethinking the path to electrification
Confusion over EV terms and technology remains We’ve all heard it, ad nauseum: the future of mobility is electric. You may even have seen it in this column. If so, let me refine that statement just a little: the future …
Award winning innovation
There’s more to new auto technology than just electric and autonomous Most of the news about automotive technologies, these days, seems focused on fully electric and autonomous vehicles. But there’s plenty that’s new in more conventional technical areas as well. …
Is there a better way to transition to autonomous driving?
Some key players suggest we should amplify human control, not remove it As we’ve discussed in this column in the past, the advent of autonomous vehicles is inevitable. The only really big question is: how soon? Some proponents, both within …
Mixed messages in January 2019 sales decline
It should come as no surprise to industry watchers that new-vehicle sales declined in January 2019. Sales of 108,774 vehicles were down 7.3% from the same month a year ago, continuing a trend of diminishing sales that is now 11 …
2018 Canadian auto sales are second-best ever
As has long been expected, Canadian auto sales for the 2018 calendar year were the second-best in history, even with a dramatic drop in December sales that extended the period of gradual decline to 10 consecutive months. December sales of …
The ethical dilemma of autonomous vehicles
“Never before, in the history of humanity have we allowed a machine to autonomously decide who should live and who should die, in a fraction of a second.” Bit by bit, the technical challenges of autonomous/self-driving cars are being met, …
Dramatic drop for November new vehicle sales
New-vehicle sales in Canada in November suffered their biggest drop of the year, down 9.4% from the same month in 2017, which was itself down from the year before. November 2018’s 143,668 sales were nearly 15,000 units short of last …
Is hydrogen still the fuel of the future?
Hydrogen-fuelled Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles were once considered the logical successor to gasoline-fuelled vehicles Twenty years ago, hydrogen was widely hailed as the fuel of the future. And hydrogen fuel cells were touted as the ideal powerplants for our future …
