Category: Automotive Technology

  • Valeo SCALA 3 LiDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) receives prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Award

    Valeo SCALA 3 LiDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) receives prestigious CES 2024 Innovation Award

    Valeo Group | 16 Nov, 2023 | 7 min Valeo is proud to announce that our SCALA 3 LiDAR is a CES 2024 Innovation Award honoree in the category “Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility”.

  • Seattle International Auto Show highlights puts you behind the wheel of the newest automotive tech

    Seattle International Auto Show highlights puts you behind the wheel of the newest automotive tech

    SEATTLE — Electric vehicles and some throwbacks are just a few of the attractions automotive fans can see this weekend at the Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle. The Seattle International Auto Show opens Thursday and runs through Sunday. Visitors can check out hundreds of the latest cars, trucks, SUVs, crossovers, vans, EVs, hybrids and…

  • Top 100 Accountants 2023 – MAC RATKE – Los Angeles Business Journal

    MAC RATKE Partner‚ Capital Markets / Financial Accounting Advisory Services EY Mac Ratke is a Partner in EY’s Capital Markets and Financial Accounting Advisory Services practice in Los Angeles. He has 23 years of experience, advising clients on capital market transactions including IPOs, carve-out/spin-offs, debt offerings, complex conversion and convergence accounting issues, and SEC reporting…

  • $19 million awarded to prepare students for in-demand careers

    $19 million awarded to prepare students for in-demand careers

    Idaho’s $45 million push to expand workforce-ready education programs into rural parts of the state is moving rapidly — about three-fourths of the grant money has been awarded to 35 programs. Applications for the Idaho Career Ready Students (ICRS) grant program opened four months ago and state leaders have awarded a total of approximately $35…

  • West-MEC Accreditation Celebration

    GLENDALE, Ariz., Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), performs the nation’s first and only accreditation process for automotive training programs. The process is engineered to evaluate a program’s structure, processes, resources, materials and mission. Recently, ASE came to Western Maricopa Education Center’s (West-MEC) Northwest Campus to review the Automotive Technology program. ASE…

  • Hyundai Ioniq 6 takes top spot in Edmunds’ new EV charging test

    Hyundai Ioniq 6 takes top spot in Edmunds’ new EV charging test

    Edmunds has unveiled the Edmunds EV Charging Test, which the company says provides a “rigorous, independent evaluation” of electric vehicle fast-charging speeds, giving consumers crucial information about the time required to add range to a vehicle’s battery. The charging test combines Level 3 charging measurements from automotive consultant P3 Group with proprietary data from the…

  • AutoNation to offer digital license plate to customers in Arizona

    AutoNation to offer digital license plate to customers in Arizona

    Reviver’s partnership with AutoNation is expanding into Arizona. The automotive technology company said the nation’s second-largest dealer group is adding its Arizona stores to those in California that are already offering Reviver’s RPlate digital license plate to their customers. AutoNation boasts retail sales of 229,971 new vehicles in 2022, ranking it second to Lithia &…

  • Dealer news: Rick Case inducted into FADA Hall of Fame, dealerships acquired in Ohio, Georgia, SC

    Dealer news: Rick Case inducted into FADA Hall of Fame, dealerships acquired in Ohio, Georgia, SC

    The late Rick Case, who founded Rick Case Automotive Group and served as its CEO for 60 years, was honored posthumously by the Florida Automobile Dealers Association as a member of the inaugural class of the FADA Hall of Fame. Case, who passed away at age 77 in 2020 following a brief battle with cancer,…

  • Open Lending becomes Associate Business Member to empower underserved

    Open Lending becomes Associate Business Member to empower underserved

    CUNA announced its latest Associate Business Member is Open Lending, an industry leader in loan analytics and risk-based pricing.  “CUNA is proud to partner with an organization so committed to expanding automobile access to traditionally underserved borrowers,” said Karin Sand, vice president of sales for CUNA System Provider Relations. “Open Lending’s 20-plus years of expertise…

  • CAE Technology Pioneer Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

    CAE Technology Pioneer Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

    Kevin N. Pageau, owner and president of the International Marketing Alliance and a major contributor to the SPE Automotive Innovation Awards program for many years, was named the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. He received the award at a gala held on Nov. 8 in Livonia, MI. For more than 40 years, Pageau has led…