Automakers sold 1.92 million vehicles in Canada in 2019, and 74 per cent of those were light trucks, up three percentage points over 2018. DesRosiers Automotive Consultants in Toronto isn't sure when the migration from cars to trucks will end. 

Magna International Inc. says it expects sales in 2020 to fall compared with 2019 due to a stronger U.S. dollar, the sale of its fluid pressure and controls business and lower expected light vehicle production in Europe.

Canadian Tire will install a total of 240 fast chargers and 55 Level 2 chargers at 90 retail locations across the country, saying that “the popularity of electric vehicles is on the rise.” The federal government will spend $2.7 million to help pay for some of the chargers.

The British Columbia-based automaker in November 2019 opened a kiosk in the Westfield Century City Shopping Mall on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Now, it's looking at locations in Washington and Oregon.

A Nissan Canada spokeswoman said the price hike was needed to pay for making the automaker's Safety Shield 360 standard on the base model of the popular compact SUV. Remote start has also been added to the mid-level trim.

A new job action centre designed to help autoworkers and parts makers who lost their jobs in the wake of the closure of General Motors’ Oshawa plant is set to open this month at the Unifor office in the southern Ontario city.

Canadian supplier Magna International is developing new camera technology in the interest of fuel economy, but it’s expensive, the images aren’t as clear as with glass and government regulators are not yet on board.

Mazda Canada is recalling nearly 16,000 units of its most popular car because their automatic emergency braking system might falsely detect an obstacle in front of the car while driving.

McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., has confirmed Iman Aghabali and Mehdi Eshaghian were both PhD students in the school’s faculty of engineering. They focused on automotive research, including hybrid and autonomous vehicles.

A consortium of Canadian auto suppliers aims to build and unveil by 2022 a zero-emissions concept car made entirely of parts and software sourced at home. Project Arrow is intended to highlight Canadian auto ingenuity, engineering, design and manufacturing. 

The shutdown comes as sales of the Chrysler Pacifica and the Dodge Grand Caravan continue to fall in Canada and the United States.

Ford, with the help of Canadian research, is leading the charge to turn food byproducts into environmentally friendly car parts, making auto suppliers out of farmers, restaurateurs and grocers. It's not the first time Ford has turned to food for parts.

Canadian new-vehicle sales ended 2019 down 3.6 per cent but automakers still managed to sell more than 1.9 million units for the fourth consecutive year. “You can make a lot of money in a 1.9-million market,” said one analyst.

Electrify Canada highway and metro stations, and many Porsche dealers, will offer DC fast charging at levels that will recharge a battery to 80 per cent from five per cent of “state of charge” in 22.5 minutes.

Work at the University of Guelph and nearby bio materials company Competitive Green Technologies turns coffee bean skins into resin used in headlight housings. McDonald's said it would donate "a significant portion" of its North American coffee-bean remnants to Ford in an effort to reduce waste.