If you’re one of the tens of thousands of aftermarket professionals who attended this year’s AAPEX Show in Las Vegas, you might have noticed that some people were wearing green shoes on Wednesday, Nov. 1. If you took a long look at those green sneakers, that’s a good thing. It was a fashion statement meant…

I was young the first time I heard of a hybrid. But it wasn’t a car. It was a tomato my parents were planting in their garden. I couldn’t seem to grasp it. It was a strange word and an idea I didn’t get at first. Why did tomatoes have to change? Did they have…

There’s a lot more talk these days about multimeters, likely due to the growing need for battery-electric vehicle (BEV) and hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV) service. CAT III is the buzzword, as we’ve all learned that the multimeter we’ve had for years might not be rated to handle the high voltage of an EV. What we don’t…

Acertus entered a strategic partnership with U.S.-based electric vehicle (EV) charging solution provider, OpConnect, to electrify 41 of its 67 nationwide locations. Acertus said it will leverage OpConnect’s charging systems across its storage, hub and prep locations to maintain customer EV battery health. According to Goldman Sachs…

EC Electric and Lovett will partner in an attempt to improve EV charging infrastructure for dealership employees and customers. Their most recent partnership project will focus on Ron Tonkin Dealerships, a network of automotive dealerships in the Portland metro area owned by GEE Automotive. The companies said their approach leverages horizontal directional drilling techniques, ensuring…

Widewail released its 2023 Widewail Voice of the Customer Report, which studies the voice of today’s automotive customers by compiling U.S. new car dealerships’ Google reviews from the first half of 2023. An analysis of 800,000 Google reviews from more than 16,000 new car dealerships found that 25% of customers who left a review after…

Recycling and waste company WIN Waste Innovations recently received two Mack LR Electric Class 8 refuse vehicles, with plans to power these trucks exclusively by the waste collected by the vehicles themselves. The two Mack LR Electric vehicles will each collect 150 cubic yards of waste…

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) recently released an analysis examining the state of California’s readiness for full vehicle electrification. ATRI said that the research expands on its 2022 report, “Charging Infrastructure Challenges for the U.S. Electric Vehicle Fleet,” by providing a more granular analysis of the challenges in one state as it moves toward…

A new study commissioned by engineered battery materials company Ascend Elements found that 71% of U.S. adults say they are concerned about disposal of used EV batteries, up from 54% in 2022. About 56% of survey respondents say EV batteries will cause “toxic landfills,” up from 48% in 2022. These concerns may be linked to…

The Battery Workforce Challenge Program on behalf of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Stellantis and the Argonne National Laboratory released the 12 universities and partnering vocational schools participating in the first-of-its-kind Battery Workforce Challenge collegiate competition. The competition tasks the selected universities, along with their…