Here’s your guide to some of the highlights at both Las Vegas shows
The Auto Service World team is in Las Vegas for Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week, highlighted by AAPEX and the SEMA Show. It will be a busy week with product announcements from suppliers and aftermarket pros getting firsthand looks are components…
An eastern Ontario electric vehicle battery component plant is getting nearly $1 billion in funding from the federal and Ontario governments. The Umicore facility in Loyalist Township, northwest of Kingston, will build cathode active materials and precursor cathode active materials.…
The Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance has promoted Justin Hebert to vice president of category management. He will take over the position as of November 1 and will oversee all passenger vehicles, light and medium duty along with the Alliance commercial…
Patrick Smith has joined the KYB Aftermarket team as its new business operations manager. He will oversee sales and distribution center administrative functions, focusing on streamlining procedures and improving efficiencies. Smith spent ten years in the U.S. Army as an…
Dana Incorporated has introduced the Ultimate Dana 60 rear semi-float axle and Ultimate Dana 44 AdvanTEK front-drive unit as a premium performance offering for the Ford Bronco SUV. The Ultimate Dana 60 features Spicer chromoly steel axle shafts, Spicer ring…
SKF announced it has released a new smart air purification system that upgrades most vehicles’ factory-installed cabin air filters with next-generation OEM air purification technology. This provides a higher level of air purification to filter impurities, such as pollen, smoke…
It has been said that data is the new oil — which is fitting when talking about it in the context of vehicles as both are key components of the automotive industry today. A discussion at a recent conference looked…
The United States federal government issued proposals earlier this year for new automobile pollution limits that include requiring up to two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032. Like any political goal, pointed out Liz…
Think about the amount of labour that goes into working on an internal combustion engine. If you’re not already capturing the value of that labour in your current labour rate, you may be in for some hurt when electric vehicles…
Trust in fully automated, self-driving vehicles has fallen for the second year in a row. The J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Mobility Confidence Index (MCI) Study reported that the index score for consumer automated vehicle readiness dropped two points to 37…
It would probably be accurate to describe changes happening and coming to the automotive aftermarket as “seismic” given the advances in vehicle technology and increased number of hybrid and electric vehicles. So recent advice from leaders to handle seismic change…