Hydrogen always seems to be the Bridesmaid never the Bride technology Over the 17 years this column has existed, few subjects, if any, have been its focus more often than hydrogen (H2) as an automotive fuel, either for use electrochemically …
Battery chemistries will replace engine specs in your new vocabulary By 2035, if today’s plans and edicts are all realized, 100 per cent of the new cars and light trucks on sale to the public will be battery electric vehicles …
New-vehicle sales in Canada improved in both March and the full first quarter of 2023, relative to the same periods a year ago. But those improvements were marginal and they continue to disappoint, failing to signal any imminent upturn in …
Conventional heating systems don’t exist in electric vehicles Most new car shoppers probably don’t show a lot of interest in a vehicle’s heating system before buying. It is just something that’s there, expected to be serviceable, and not seen as …
Is the glass half-full or half-empty? That is the question prompted by February’s new-vehicle sales numbers in Canada. Sales of 103,771 vehicles, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive consultants, were up by 5.1% from February of last year. Following a 7.5% …
What BEV buyers need to know about EV-specific tires With sales of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) rapidly increasing in Canada, it is important that customers, especially first-time BEV buyers, are well tutored in what to expect from their new vehicles …
Not all the automakers have reported 2022 year-end sales yet, but we’re close enough to a final number to know that it will fall short of 1.5-million, probably somewhere very close to 1,488,600 units. DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC) have estimated …
Educating electric vehicle buyers about winter performance can help avoid negative feedback This being the December issue of Canadian auto dealer means that we’re on the cusp of, if not already well into the grips of, another Canadian winter. It …
For the first time since last January, November auto sales in Canada outpaced those of the same month a year earlier. Sales of 114,966 units, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC), were up by 4.1% from November 2021. Could …
While September’s Canadian auto sales offered some glimmer of hope for improvement, October’s sales numbers laid waste to any such optimism. Sales of 121,653 new units in October, as estimated by DesRosiers Automotive Consultants (DAC), were down by 5.4% from …
Could a revolution in automotive braking be on the horizon? Almost 100 years ago, Walter Chrysler triggered a revolution in automotive braking by fitting the new car bearing his name with standard four-wheel hydraulic brakes—a feature that would become ubiquitous …
Sometimes a smaller negative can be as welcome as a positive, encouraging hope that the situation just might be improving. Such is the case with new-vehicle sales in Canada in September. September sales of 130,421 vehicles, as estimated by DesRosiers …
