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Winter driving poses significant challenges, especially when some vehicles are less equipped to handle icy conditions than others. A recent study by MNH Injury Lawyers analyzed crash data, safety systems, and protection ratings to determine the most dangerous cars for winter driving. Surprisingly, both trucks and sedans dominate the list, with various shortcomings depending on their design.
Three of the top five most dangerous winter vehicles are pickups, each with notable drawbacks in crash statistics and safety metrics. Topping the list is the Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The Ford F-150 comes in second, with a slightly better track record, but it still faces significant winter hazards. The Ram 1500 ranks fifth overall.
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Trump is targeting both federal and CA vehicle standards in his recent executive order – standards that not only reduce climate emissions but also slash air pollutants like nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Undermining these rules will have major negative environmental, health, energy, and consumer impacts.
Vehicle standards likely to be targeted include EPA’s Multi-Pollutant Passenger Vehicle Emission Standards, NHTSAs Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, and Federal Heavy-Duty Truck Standards.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of standards in making progress in making real world impacts on reducing air pollution, cutting climate emissions, and reducing petroleum use. Sure, auto industry innovation is rarely standing still, but history has demonstrated that safety, efficiency and pollution innovations don’t deliver without standards in place
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The head of General Motors’ Canada division is now sounding the alarm. If Trump follows through with his plan to push forward with tariffs, decades of progress could be unraveled from the delicate North American auto industry supply chain, causing vehicle prices to spike. And that means the consumer will ultimately be the one who suffers.
“It is a disruption that is in no one’s interest, especially in the U.S.,” warned GM Canada President Kristian Aquilina
It’s not just the U.S. that could face higher vehicle prices, either. Canadian residents in particular will also be affected, as an estimated 50% of the vehicles sold in Canada in 2023 were imported from the U.S.
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Battery health, like engine health in a gas-powered car, is critical to keeping your electric vehicle running. Whether you are a seasoned electric car owner or considering the switch to buy one, when you keep your EV battery in top condition, the car lasts longer and retains more of its original value.
But what if you’re purchasing a used EV and don’t have information on how well the electric vehicle’s battery was maintained? To give potential buyers confidence in their purchase decision, Autotrader, a Cox Automotive brand, today announced the availability of EV battery health scores on its used electric vehicle listings, giving shoppers a fuller picture of the battery’s performance, including usable range, before they buy.
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By Ed Pierce, Fleet Management Weekly’s Brand Acceleration
An adequately filled sales funnel is critical for any company to thrive in today’s accelerated business landscape. Fleet industry service providers can learn and utilize effective marketing strategies that attract potential clients before turning them into lifelong clients.
Before developing marketing strategies for fleet industry companies, it’s essential to recognize their distinctive characteristics. The fleet industry encompasses services related to vehicle fleets and has its own challenges and opportunities.
At the core of any successful marketing campaign lies finding its target audience. Within the fleet industry, knowing your ideal customers is imperative. To do this effectively and reach them efficiently, segmentation of the market is necessary.
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By Fleet Management Weekly Staff
We sat down with Josh DeLaune, co-founder of American Coating Company and its subsidiaries, to discuss Patriot Fleet Solutions, its genesis, and how it fits into American Coating Company’s plan to help FMCs and dealers.
What’s in store for Patriot Fleet Solutions in 2025?
“We’re most excited for 2025. We’ve beta-tested our proprietary software, which we hope to launch to our FMCs and dealer network in March fully. After that, we’ll roll out a private-labeled truck accessory line, including industry-standard toolboxes, bed covers, and truck bodies. This will all be accessible to our dealer network.
“We aim to have Patriot Fleet Solutions be the relationship binder between the FMCs and our applicators, who have specialty services you can’t get anywhere else.”
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By Bill Bishop, SVP Marketing, FLD
Nearly five years after the dawn of Covid, I can’t honestly say that fleet ever really found a “new normal.” And, in many ways, I’m not sure that given the myriad challenges our industry has faced – new technology integration, an attempt at EV adoption, the drive for carbon neutrality, a changing labor market – that finding a long lasting “new normal” was really all that achievable.
I think 2024 is the year the market experienced an extended period of what I like to call “predictable patterns.” And frankly, that may be the best we can hope for in the post pandemic age – or at least the foreseeable future.
With so much going on in fleet as 2024 drew to a close, we have little doubt 2025 will yield significant developments. And while most of remarketing’s talking heads are predicting a breakout year for used wholesale vehicles, we’re not entirely sure that will be the case.
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