Vietnamese OEM VinFast has filed with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) to fund its expansion with a planned $2 billion plant in North Carolina. The company has [...]
Florida’s insurance commissioner submitted his resignation Thursday, a day after the state’s legislature enacted a bill to address the state’s property insurance crisis. Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier gave no reasons for his resignation in his [...]
Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety 2023 Roadmap to Safety report, released last week, rated five states in the U.S. as making the most legislative progress toward vehicle and roadway safety improvements to prevent serious [...]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is working on updates to its longest-running crash test, the moderate overlap front evaluation and so far, only two out of 15 small SUVs, the Ford Escape and [...]
The Collision Repair Education Foundation (CREF) has established a scholarship in memory of Jeff Silver, honoring his decades of work to benefit the collision repair industry. Silver, a champion for technical education across the industry, [...]
Glue pull repair (GPR) is becoming an increasingly attractive option for collision repairers, particularly as OEMs turn to using aluminum for body panels, representatives of a leading GPR tool manufacturer said during a Repairer Driven [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that fuel economy remains at a record high (25.4 miles per gallon) in model year (MY) 2021 vehicles while emission levels are at a record low (347 grams [...]
The Auto Care Association (ACA) “stands at the center” of the Massachusetts vehicle data access case, and the new evidence it could provide has bearing on the central question of whether OEMs “can safely (and [...]
Mitsubishi, Nissan/Infiniti and Stellantis have joined the 12 OEMs that have met their promise to install automatic emergency braking (AEB) on more than 95 percent of the vehicles they produce, the Insurance Institute for Highway [...]
British Columbia has announced a two-phase plan to implement trade certification to address industries’ need for more technicians. British Columbia is the only Canadian province without trade certification, despite the already established programs in other [...]
