Another former Tesla executive has joined the leadership team at Plug. The company, which provides an online wholesale auction platform exclusively for electric vehicles, said Monday it has hired Lauren Van Dyke as its vice president of operations and partnerships. Van Dyke was most recently head of business operations for North America at Tesla, leading […] [Read More]

Dealer Alchemist has hired Roma Varyani as vice president of OEM partnerships to lead the development and expansion of the company’s partnerships with OEMs The automotive digital marketing company said the addition of Varyani to the leadership team “underscores the company’s dedication to fostering strategic partnerships” to enhance value for clients and partners. “Adding Roma […] [Read More]

Is right now the best time to buy an electric vehicle? According to J.D. Power’s E-Vision Intelligence Report for May, it seems likely that’s the case, thanks to the “policy limbo” the EV market currently finds itself in. The report, authored by Brent Gruber, executive director of J.D. Power’s electric vehicle practice, said battery-electric vehicles […] [Read More]

Well, that didn’t take long. Matt Leone has been named CEO of dealership CRM and artificial intelligence platform DriveCentric, just a week after it was announced he had stepped down as CEO of automotiveMastermind. In a news release, the company said the hire comes on the heels of a year of record customer growth, representing […] [Read More]

The Tim Lamb Group has added Canadian auto industry veteran Paul Gilroy as a director, responsible for leading franchised dealership mergers and acquisitions throughout Canada. The dealership M&A firm said in a news release Gilroy’s expertise includes dealership sales and valuations, facilitating buy/sell transactions and the development and renovation of auto retail facilities. The Ontario […] [Read More]

George Chamoun briefly touched on ACV Auctions’ “Project Viper” during the opening comments of the company’s first quarter earnings call , but he later expanded on the potential of the service product during the Q&A portion. “I never, ever in my entire career have had a product where I’ve had this much demand,” Chamoun, who is CEO of ACV, said Wednesday.  ACV has described Project Viper as ... [Read More]

For months now, everyone has been talking about tariffs and what might happen. Now here we are in the tariff era. So what is actually happening? In this episode of the Auto Remarketing podcast, AutoTrader vice president of insights and intelligence Baris Akyurek answers that question from the Canadian point of view. Akyurek, who will […] [Read More]

To succeed in an increasingly uncertain and volatile market faced with rising costs for vehicles and financing, Canada’s auto lenders need to go the extra mile. That’s the conclusion of J.D. Power’s 2025 Canada Dealer Financing Satisfaction Study, an analysis of 5,974 finance provider evaluations from new-vehicle dealerships in Canada, conducted in February. “In the […] [Read More]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of the May edition of Auto Remarketing, which will focus entirely on a new special feature: Who to Watch. This special feature will recognize auto industry executives and companies — selected by Cherokee Media Group’s senior editors — who are significantly shaping the future of the used-car industry. This […] [Read More]

Credit Union Leasing of America (CULA) recently partnered with Self Inspection, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence-powered inspections that gained $3 million in seed funding in February. The initial fruit from that seed is CULA highlighting the success of a program already utilized by more than 11,000 lessees that has reduced lease-end vehicle turnaround times […] [Read More]