Author: reed

Click It or Ticket (CIOT) is a campaign by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that encourages driver safety by enforcing seat belt laws…

I’ve always assumed that leasing a vehicle was a worse deal that buying otherwise, why would dealerships offer it as an option, but I thought…

Manual transmission are becoming more popular in the united states after years of seeing their market take-rate fall. At the lowest point in 2007, only…

A new hybrid vehicle technology based on flywheel storage of energy as opposed to battery storage. Several companies including Drive-train Innovations, SKF, Bosch, CCM and…

The Global Positioning System, used by pedestrians, motorists and truckers the world over is a free application developed and maintained by the US government. The…

A dealership manager remarked today during class that Electric cars are a zero sum emissions game. At the point of the end user, no emissions…

Tesla Motors, Inc failed to earn a profit in the first quarter of 2014 as we covered earlier by my colleague. Automakers, with their high…

The car industry is dominated by internal combustion engines run on fossil fuels in large part because modern battery technology cannot match the energy density…

Mitsubishi Motors’ North  American operation is struggling; the manufacturer sells far less than any other Asian car company in North America. The next smallest Asian…

Consumer vehicle markets are expanding in the US early in 2014, bolstered by the sales of light trucks  which are up 12.7% over April of…