LeasePlan USA has appointed Juan Perez as senior vice president of operations, overseeing the teams that manage the lifecycle of vehicles, from vehicle acquisition to remarketing.
“Our aim as an operations team will be to advance innovation while maintaining the client experience that sets LeasePlan apart,” said Perez. “Our team is committed to delivering the promise to each and every client we serve.
Would you pay more for new car options with a proven chance of avoiding accidents? Apparently, most consumers won't. A recent survey shows that only 8 percent of respondents own cars with automatic emergency braking -- the most crucial new safety feature.
That's leading Nissan to make automatic emergency braking standard, with no extra charge, on the estimated 1 million vehicles it will sell in the U.S. as 2018 models. This will cover seven of the most popular Nissan models: Rogue and Rogue Sport, Altima, Murano, Leaf, Pathfinder, Maxima and Sentra.
The emerging "automotive ecosystem" of the future may not be particularly kind to Detroit.
Not because the likes of this town's automakers aren't changing. But because they're not changing fast enough to blunt the competitive onslaught from high-tech Silicon Valley heavyweights loaded with cash and a knack for delivering high returns on invested capital, says a new report from Alix Partners, a global consultancy.
The world's biggest oil producers are starting to take electric vehicles seriously as a long-term threat.
OPEC quintupled its forecast for sales of plug-in EVs, and oil producers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to BP Plc also revised up their outlooks in the past year, according to a study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance released on Friday. The London-based researcher expects those cars to reduce oil demand 8 million barrels by 2040, more than the current combined production of Iran and Iraq.
Last week, a pair of studies came to seemingly opposite conclusions on whether rising marijuana use is causing an increase in car crashes in states that have legalized the drug.
The first, conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, analyzed insurance claims for vehicle collisions filed between January 2012 and October 2016. The IIHS researchers compared claims in states that had recently legalized marijuana (Colorado, Washington and Oregon) with claims in similar neighboring states that hadn't.