Pennsylvania’s Attorney General (OAG) recently announced an amendment to the state’s Automotive Industry Trade Practices regulation that provides additional protections for consumers shopping for and purchasing used vehicles. The amendment adds language that regulates online [...]
Steven Lee says he contacted State Farm almost daily asking for an adjuster to look at his vehicle brought to Pacific BMW in California after a May collision. Every day State Farm would send him [...]
Hyundai Motor and General Motors (GM) recently announced an agreement to explore joint product development, manufacturing, and clean energy technologies. By working together, the companies say they will look for ways to leverage their scale [...]
A General Motors engineer has filed for a patent to quiet cabin noise with an electromagnetic liftgate latch. At least one electromagnetic latch would reduce liftgate structure noise by constraining displacements when the vehicle is [...]
Factorial, a solid-state battery technology company, has worked with Mercedes-Benz to develop a new all-solid-state battery for electric vehicles (EVs) that the companies say will improve performance and efficiency. Named Solstice, the battery is expected [...]
Maine’s Right to Repair Working Group laid out some aspects Wednesday of the responsibilities a soon-to-be-created independent oversight entity will have in ensuring vehicle repair rights. The entity is the result of a referendum and [...]
California’s legislature recently passed a bill that requires OEMs to provide options for vehicle tracking to be disabled by the owner in an attempt to protect victims of domestic or sexual assault and human trafficking. [...]
During the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit, a panel of executives from the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Cambridge Mobile Telematics, and GM Enterprise Innovation will discuss how telematics have [...]
The Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation Insurance Division has published a bulletin notifying insurers that they must cease using non-compliant vehicle history scores. “It has come to our attention that some vehicle history scores [...]
Vermont Department of Financial Regulations (DFR) held a meeting Tuesday for consumers to gather information for a study into the business practices of auto insurance companies in the state. The study is the result of [...]
