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App gives ‘mobile garage’ new meaning
- February 22, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
A new app has been launched to provide drivers with a virtual garage on their handsets. Released by Solera, The Digital Garage enables drivers to access a range of information about their cars in a single location while also receiving timely reminders straight to their phones. The software uses licence plate data to bring up information [...] -
Electric sales hit new European high
- February 22, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
December was a record month for electric car sales in western Europe. Sales topped 11,000 in the last month of 2015, and that figure swells to 33,000 if plug-in hybrids are also counted. Tesla Model S and Renault ZOE both topped the sales chart with more than 3,000 units each. Those numbers capped off a [...] -
PPG completes innovation investment
- February 19, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
PPG has completed a $7.8 million investment at its Coatings Innovation Center in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, just 20 minutes from its global headquarters in Pittsburgh. The upgrades to the facility include increased laboratory and testing space and upgraded equipment that improves the technical capabilities of the company’s primary research and development facility for paint and [...] -
A sign of the data protection times
- February 19, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
US-based Service King Collision Repair Centers has recognised the growing value of data protection in the industry by naming Anil Varghese as its first ever chief information security officer. Varghese has two decades of global experience in the information technology sector, having worked at American Express and Sony, and his appointment continues Service King’s ongoing investment [...] -
Volvo continues positive progress
- February 19, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
Volvo Car Group trebled its operating profit for 2015 whilst reporting an all-time sales record of 503,127 cars, the first time it has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history. Volvo Cars expects to make record sales in 2016 for the third consecutive year, Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo Cars’ president and chief [...]


