California’s rising insurance rates have prompted Uber to raise its minimum age requirement to 25 for drivers in the state. The ridesharing company said in a statement obtained by Repairer Driven News that insurance rates [...]
A newly released study indicates that 47% of young adults are interested in pursuing a skilled trade as a career. And despite a dwindling skilled trade labor force, 83% of U.S. adults ages 18 to [...]
A new analysis from Consumer Reports (CR) has found that last year’s top-selling pickup trucks and SUVs didn’t come standard with blind spot warning (BSW). Fourteen 2022 model year heavy passenger vehicles were assessed by [...]
Owners of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) are more likely to experience problems with advanced technology than drivers of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, a new study shows. J.D. Power’s 2023 U.S. Tech Experience Index, released last [...]
Mitchell International and CCC Intelligent Solutions have acknowledged the growing necessity of vehicle diagnostic scans and calibrations and say they want to ensure collision repair technicians have what they need to properly perform them. Members [...]
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposal that would require automakers to ramp up light-duty zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) is now up for public comment through Oct. 20. Called the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) proposal, it [...]
Most small businesses within the U.S. are increasingly satisfied with the products and services they’re receiving from commercial insurance providers, a new report indicates. According to the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Study, [...]
General Motors (GM) says it has invested $60 million in lithium-ion battery material producer Mitra Chem to accelerate its commercialization of affordable electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The companies said that they’ll develop advanced iron-based cathode [...]
Rivian and Tesla shared Thursday in separate letters that they support a “right to repair (R2R)” agreement made last month between the Alliance of Automotive Innovation (Auto Innovators), the Automotive Service Association (ASA), and the [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office have exchanged letters pertaining to an in-vehicle data access lawsuit against AG Andrea Campbell that suggests at least a partial solution to [...]
