Numa is moving into new territory. The artificial intelligence platform for dealership service department customer operations has acquired AI sales platform Ficus, a deal designed to accelerate Numa’s expansion into dealership sales and variable operations. “This has been a defining year for Numa,” founder and CEO Tasso Roumeliotis said. “Dealerships are moving from fragmented software […] [Read More]

AVILOO, a Europe-based provider of electric vehicle battery diagnostics that entered the U.S. market in 2024, now has a leader for its American operation. Auto industry veteran Brett Lippel has been named CEO of AVILOO Northern America to drive strategic growth and nationwide adoption of its battery testing technology. His mission, the company said, is […] [Read More]

From its beginnings, Carfax has been focused on a car’s past — how many owners it’s had, accidents it’s been in, maintenance records. Now it is looking into the future. The provider of vehicle history reports has added an assessment of future reliability to its reports, giving consumers a VIN-specific evaluation of what’s ahead for […] [Read More]

Usually, a booster launches a rocket. This time, RockED is launching Booster. The automotive training platform announced the creation of Booster, an automated performance management system designed to improve service advisor performance. RockED said the system combines its learning platform with live performance leaderboards and “tailors coaching to the individual gaps of every employee.” In […] [Read More]

voAIce Corporation has made a deal to bring its artificial intelligence technology together with customer relationship management data. The company announced it has acquired TheCRM Corporation to create a single intelligence system for retail dealerships, combining TheCRM’s live dealership data infrastructure with voAIce’s AI. With the deal, voAIce has introduced DealerCRM, which joins OliviaAI, DealerIdentify […] [Read More]

The automotive wholesale ecosystem has always relied on trust. Dealers trust auctions. Auctions trust carriers. Carriers trust brokers. And somewhere in the middle of that chain, vehicles move across the country every day with the expectation that they will arrive where they are supposed to, in the condition they were sold. Most of the time, […] [Read More]

Concluding our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Tony Rimas, who is vice president of global revenue at XPEL Inc. Rimas — an avid biker who swam and ran track & field and cross country in college — talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about a career […] [Read More]

There’s a new used-car marketplace in town — if your town is in Arizona. UsedCars.com, powered by AutoWeb, announced the regional launch of its marketplace, billed as “zero-risk”, in Arizona, beginning with dealers in the Phoenix, Prescott, Mesa and Tucson markets. In a news release, AutoWeb said the platform connects buyers with dealers at the […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive’s EV Battery Solutions business isn’t done even when a battery is. The company announced it has reached a milestone in electric vehicle battery recycling, having processed and recovered more than 10 million pounds of black mass — material containing minerals that can be refined and reused to help produce new batteries — from […] [Read More]

Two years ago today, eSTART got its start. The Electronic Secure Title and Registration Transformation Coalition — better known throughout the auto industry as the eSTART Coalition — was born March 13, 2024, when 18 organizations joined together to advocate for the modernization of the title and registration process. Since then, eSTART has grown from […] [Read More]