NAPA Auto Parts sees potential in electric vehicle repair and is preparing its branded stores and its independent partners to capitalize on a potentially huge market for aftermarket parts. “There is a big opportunity for NAPA to get into the electrification space,” Donovan Ringo, NAPA’s senior manager, emerging markets, told Auto Remarketing on the sidelines of the Electrify Expo Industry Day conference in Southern California in late May. NAPA considers EVs, ADAS, and vehicle connectivity emerging technology for ... [Read More]

Binu Mathew, a veteran of 30 years in leading product development and strategy for software technology companies, has joined automotive retail platform Tekion as its chief technology officer. In his new role, Mathew will lead the engineering, product management and design teams and drive the company’s technology strategy, product development and delivery to ensure the […] [Read More]

Impel, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered customer lifecycle management for the automotive industry, announced an integration with WhatsApp as a communication channel for Impel AI to enhance its omnichannel capabilities. In addition to webchat, email and SMS texting, auto retailers using Impel’s AI platform can now deliver personalized experiences and engage in humanlike conversations with […] [Read More]

I’ve run into a consistent theme in recent conversations with dealers: What do you make of systems that automatically price used vehicles? The question has also led to requests that we change ProfitTime GPS from its current functionality of providing recommended price ranges for individual vehicles to automatically pricing each car. When I ask why […] [Read More]

Amit Chandarana is the chief commercial officer at Signal Technologies, which specializes in the Canada-to-U.S. used-vehicle import market. He sat down with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby at ASOTU Con outside Baltimore last month for a conversation about the vehicle import-export market, the conference’s Pitch Tank competition, advice for startups and entrepreneurs, what […] [Read More]

With summer driving season getting into full swing and perhaps your service drive becoming even busier, FrogData rolled out its newest tool this week. FrogData launched FixedOps Mojo, a service management dashboard that’s designed to optimize fixed operations for dealerships. Part of the WarrantyBoost+ solution, FixedOps Mojo leverages artificial intelligence-driven data analytics to provide actionable […] [Read More]

Shortly after his firm advised STELLA Automotive AI on its $19.7 million Series A financing round, The Presidio Group CEO Brodie Cobb joined the Auto Remarketing Podcast for a conversation about the automotive investment landscape. Cobb and Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby discuss why dealer groups and auto industry incumbents have become busy […] [Read More]

Two automotive technology companies are teaming up with the goal of elevating dealerships’ online presence. Reynolds and Reynolds and DealerOn announced a partnership to integrate DealerOn’s sales and marketing enablement technology with Reynolds’ dealership software. The companies said their development efforts will give dealers the opportunity to “enhance their holistic view of the consumer” through […] [Read More]

Former Kelley Blue Book publisher Bob Kelley, whose family founded the vehicle guide in 1926, died Tuesday at 96 in Indian Wells, Calif., according to an obituary shared by son-in-law Charlie Vogelheim. Kelley began his auto career at the family’s dealership, Kelley Kar Company, which along with KBB, was founded by his uncle Les Kelley […] [Read More]

Repairify is investing in the future of auto repair. The auto service/repair technology and data provider announced a donation of more than $180,000 worth of diagnostic tools to the automotive technology program of Collin College in North Texas as part of the company’s initiative with the Repairify Institute to support automotive training. The automotive technology […] [Read More]