David Boyce, chief executive, Mad Devs, shares his thoughts on dealers' agility and technology's need to help them scale up or down quickly in line with market shifts
We'll soon be putting together the 2023 AM Dealer Technology Guide and the editorial team would like suppliers to tell us now about their latest technological developments that will help car dealers do business better.
AI is developing at such a rate that it will be able to sell cars like a human salesperson in less than two years, according to Phyron.
Renault Group and China's Geely are set to launch a joint venture company able to produce annually up to five million efficient powertrains, including hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
As car dealerships are increasingly omnichannel retailers, the expertise they provide is still appreciated by most car drivers, industry experts tell Tom Seymour
Toyota has previewed its future plans for the electrification of its model line-up with new battery technology with a range of up to 932 miles (1,500km).
Birchwood Motor Group has appointed Vehicle in Video to provide video technology solutions for its nine sites across East and West Sussex.
The average official full range of a new electric car coming to the market for the first time in 2023 has neared 300 miles, SMMT analysis suggests.
In this latest '5 minutes with' interview, Keyloop's chief alliances officer Megan Harvey talks with AM contributor Tom Seymour about the new way it is working with suppliers and dealerships as part of its new 'partner ecosystem'. This comes after fears were raised by some industry figures that higher costs for partners would be passed on ultimately to the car dealers in those partners' client base.
CitNOW has highlighted some of the best video content being created in the UK’s automotive retail industry with its latest Digital Spotlight Awards.
Kia’s new EV9 flagship electric SUV will allow customers to remotely purchase and install new software functions “over-the-air”.
“Natural language” online car search is now being used in more than half of instances where it is offered by dealers, new data from iVendi shows.
Car retail giant Arnold Clark is investing £23 million in electric vehicle (EV) rapid chargers in a bid to create an Arnold Clark Charge network that addresses motorists EV anxiety.
Car buying consumer “hugely overestimate” the battery degradation suffered by electric vehicles (EV), allowing themselves to be dissuaded from a purchase by its perceived range-sapping effects.
Responding to an accelerated shift in consumer habits, the retail industry is continuing in its transition to offering new sales models and truly customer-centric experiences.
Perrys has struck up a new partnership which will see Ohme become its official electric vehicle (EV) charger provider – offering customers access to cheaper tariffs from of-peak energy rates.
Aftermarket EV converter Electrogenic is partnering with Babcock International in a pilot scheme to covert in-service military Land Rovers for the UK's Ministry of Defence.
Senior car retail sector business leaders from Vertu Motors, TrustFord, AutoTrader and JudgeService feature in the speaker line-up for the National Franchised Dealers Association’s (NFDA) Driving Digital 2023 conference.
Car retailers have been told “there is no silver bullet” in the fight to avoid potentially devastating data-grabbing cyberattacks as high-profile AM100 businesses continue to recover from hits on their digital systems.
Harwoods Group’s chief transformation officer Archie Harwood has told AM that the business is starting to reap the rewards of a tech revolution after taking decisive action to “take charge” of its car retail destiny.
