Author name: Tom Venetis

General Motors Canada delivered more than $313,000 to the Durham Children’s Aid Foundation to help families in need in Durham region this Christmas. This is part of the ongoing legacy of Sharon Clark, who started Sharon’s Kids at Oshawa Assembly – a program that has provided holiday gifts to children in need for more than […]

The 2023 Montreal International Auto Show will feature several new models and the full line-up of vehicles from Nissan Canada. These include the all-electric ARIYA crossover, the 2023 Pathfinder Rock Creek, the Nissan Z, and more. Other Nissan vehicles include the new Rogue crossover and the redesigned Frontier mid-size pickup. All of the showcased vehicles

FLO has been selected as the supplier for General Motors’ Dealer Community Charging Program. This program will install up to 40,000 public Level 2 EV chargers in local communities across North America. This project is the single largest deployment of EV chargers across North America. FLO will manufacture CoRe+ MAX chargers that will be provided to participating dealers.

In the wake of ongoing supply chain issues plaguing the automobile sector, the New Car Dealers Association of B.C. (NCDA) announced that the 2023 Vancouver International Auto Show has been cancelled. The show was to take place at the Vancouver Convention Centre West from March 22–26. “For the last several months, we have been working

General Motors and BrightDrop announced the opening of Canada’s first full-scale electric-vehicle manufacturing plant. With investment support from both the provincial government of Ontario and the federal government, GM has completely retooled the CAMI Assembly plant to become the new global manufacturing home of BrightDrop’s fully electric delivery vans. BrightDrop also announced the commencement of commercial operations in

The Volkswagen Group and its battery company PowerCo SE announced that they intend to accelerate the build-up of their global battery business through rapid expansion to North America. Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume and the Canadian Minister for Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, signed in Wolfsburg Germany an Addendum to the non-binding Memorandum of Understanding

Honda announced that it will produce a hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) based on the recently launched Honda CR-V starting in 2024 at its Performance Manufacturing Center (PMC) in Marysville, Ohio. This new zero-emissions vehicle will contribute to Honda’s previously announced goal to make battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and FCEVs represent 100 per cent

Jim Pattison Toyota Downtown is now celebrating the grand opening of its new, 55,000 sq-ft facility located at 1290 Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver. Designed to be part of a new office and residential tower complex, Jim Pattison Toyota Downtown is the only full-line dealership located within the downtown core. The new facility aims to

Hyundai Motor Group has a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK On, an electric vehicle battery manufacturer, to secure a supply of EV batteries in North America. The signing of the MOU took place at SK Group Headquarters in Korea, participated by Heung-soo Kim, executive vice-president and head of corporate future growth planning division and

General Motors said that its rapidly growing portfolio of electric vehicles will be solidly profitable in 2025 in North America as the company aims to scale EV capacity to more than 1 million units annually. “GM’s ability to grow EV sales is the payoff for many years of investment in R&D, design, engineering, manufacturing, our