Ford Pro Helps Streamline Fleet Management for Reeves Young
Impressed with the ease of billing and financing with Ford Pro FinSimple, Reeves Young sought more ways to bring Ford Pro into the mix. At the end of 2023, the company implemented the use of Ford Pro Telematics3 and Ford Pro fleet management software4 to further streamline operations.
“Once we got the go-ahead from the big bosses, it only took a couple of weeks to get the software set up with every vehicle and to start seeing the benefits,” said William Filinuk, fleet manager at Reeves Young. “It was a pretty incredible turnaround, and the process was more or less seamless.”
Reeves Young has become a successful construction business in Georgia since it started 70 years ago. Over the past decade, the company has grown its fleet and customer base exponentially as it expands outside the state. To learn more about how Ford Pro streamlined Reeves Young fleet management, click here.
Shift to Electric Vehicles Will Have Far-Reaching Impact, IMF Says
The global transition toward electric vehicles will have "far-reaching" impacts on investment, production, international trade and employment, the International Monetary Fund said as part of its update to global economic growth forecasts.
The move toward EVs has accelerated and is seen as a key way to help countries achieve climate goals. In 2022, transportation accounted for 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., 21% in the European Union, and 8% in China, the IMF said.
Forget Screens. Hyundai Wants To Bring Controls to Your Windshield
Hyundai is teaming up with German optical giant Zeiss to develop what they call a "Holographic Windshield Display." What that means, the company's announcement says rather excitedly: "The entire windshield becomes a full-display screen!"
"Imagine navigation and driving information unfolding like a panorama across the wide, transparent windshield where the driver’s gaze rests," Mobis officials said in a news release. "Passengers next to the driver watch movies or other videos on the vehicle’s glass. While viewing the latest video, a video call comes in, and a friend’s welcome face appears in the corner of the glass screen. This dream technology, previously existing only in movies or advertisements, is about to become reality."
Amazon is Powering up its Electric Delivery Vans with the Power of AI
Amazon is using a new, proprietary AI solution called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval (VAPR) to reduce the time and effort it takes for delivery drivers to locate packages in their vans.
VAPR makes Amazon delivery drivers’ lives easier by automatically identifying the packages to be delivered at a given stop.
Amazon says its drivers won’t have to spend time organizing packages by stops, reading labels, or manually checking identifiers like a customer’s name or address to ensure they have the right packages in between stops.
Best Cars for Teens: The List Every Parent Needs
To help guide parents and in honor of National Teen Driver Safety Week (October 20 - 26, 2024), the experts at Kelley Blue Book created 2024's Best Cars for Teens: The List Every Parent Needs.
When creating the Best Cars for Teens lists, the Kelley Blue Book experts set specific parameters. All picks in the "Under $30,000" and "Under $20,000" lists come with the advanced safety and driver-assist features listed above, and they all have at least a "Good" rating in at least five of the IIHS crash tests.
