After bottoming out in Q2, auto sales in Canada rebounded in the third quarter of 2020 to just 3.9% below 2019 levels. While the sales recovery showed signs of faltering in August, it bounced back strongly in September with an …
After climbing back to within 4.9% of the year-ago norm in July, Canadian auto sales in August were down about 8.9% from the same month in 2019, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC). Estimated sales of 165,837 units for …
Consumer demands for greater range in electric vehicles and the efforts by OEMs to meet those demands may prove reminiscent of the old-school muscle-car horsepower wars. The term “range anxiety,” according to Wikipedia, was first reported in the press by …
It seems to have been a long time coming, but there is definitely some good news in Canada’s new-vehicle sales figures for July. Estimated sales of 165,020 units are just 4.9% below last year’s July figures. Indeed, according to DesRosiers …
The pandemic has disrupted the auto industry, but momentum towards EVs continues. It has been a tenet of the auto industry, since long before the COVID-19 pandemic upset everybody’s plans worldwide, that the future will be both electric and autonomous, …
Given that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had already slashed new-vehicle sales in Canada by 20.0% in the first quarter of 2020, and the fact that April and May sales declines were dramatically worse, it’s no surprise that cumulative …
The longer-term impacts of the pandemic are just starting to manifest. It will be anything but business as usual for automotive retailers. At lightning speed, COVID-19 completely altered the dealership landscape, forcing franchised new vehicle dealerships to quickly respond. There …
COVID-19 pandemic will bring downstream challenges as well, and with some unusual new ways to differentiate your dealership. As this is written, we are deep in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the top-of-mind issue for virtually all …
“If autonomous control is ever to equal or surpass the ability of humans, the ability for the technology to ‘see’ better than humans in adverse conditions is imperative.” While early predictions that fully-autonomous vehicles are just around the corner have …
The nascent hope of some stability returning to the Canadian auto market, based on the January and February results, was overwhelmed by COVID-19’s arrival in Canada in March and the unprecedented consequences that followed in its wake. With much of …
Some companies have evolved their technologies and features to the point that progress has clearly been made. Others appear to have made progress, but in reality did not quite reach that benchmark. In a previous lifetime as an automotive engineer, …
The timeframe for deploying fully autonomous vehicles has been stretched, as OEMs and other businesses consider different areas of focus within the automotive industry. It’s 2020 and as recently as five years ago, and even more recently, it was widely …
