Demand for electric vehicles (EV) is soaring, accelerated by climate change concerns.EVs reduce tailpipe emissions from cars, trucks and buses which are responsible for 30% of our greenhouse gas pollutants.The switch to EVs is worldwide and growing. The Simply Insurance website projects by 2040, 58% of global vehicle sales will...
White Glove Detailing is a Kennewick business focused on cars, trucks, boats and RVs and is run by a couple of proud car fanatics.Dawn Caldwell-Carter and Rickie Carter are so passionate about keeping cars in mint condition, Dawn’s brand new Ford Mustang GT is being given at least two weeks’...
“Anything you can think of that’s fun in a house, that’s what we do.”That’s how Bryan Brooks describes the services offered by his family’s business, Traffic Jams.The Kennewick-based shop is locally owned and offers more than car audio, including security systems, cameras, central vacuums, network connections and home theater or...
CarMax Inc., the national chain of used car stores, confirmed it intends to open its first Tri-City location within two to three years.CarMax, based in Richmond, Virginia, operates five stores in Washington, all located in Spokane and Western Washington. Richland will be the first in the area.“We are pleased to...
By Michael Samson Yakima Valley Business TimesMcCurley Integrity Dealerships of the Tri-Cities recently bought the Stewart Subaru dealership in Yakima.Now known as McCurley Subaru of Yakima, the business at 506 Fruitvale Blvd. is the company’s sixth dealership in the state.“One of the reasons why we wanted to come over here...
Katy and J.P. Moore are building a new home for their newly acquired Tri-Cities Buick and GMC dealership, which has outgrown its Kennewick quarters.“We’re bursting at the seams,” said Katie Forney, operations manager for Speck Dealerships, the family of car and truck dealers owned by the Moores.Speck GMC and Buick...
By Andrew KirkKennewick entrepreneurReid Lunde named his company Kaizen Speed after the Japanese business term forcontinuous improvement. Since 2005, Kaizen Speed has been steadily growing, andin November won a prestigious industry award for Lunde’s new prototype. Fifteen years ago,Lunde was attending Columbia Basin College and started Kaizen Speed in borrowedspace...
By Andrew KirkWith a nuclear reservation, national laboratory and cutting-edge agricultural processing in the Tri-Cities’ backyard, Jeff Leskovar expected Mitsubishi’s plug-in hybrid electric vehicle Outlander would be well received.“We thought they’d bepopular with Hanford scientists, a high-tech product like this,” he said. “Butwe sell a lot of them to Spokane.”Almost...
By Kevin AnthonyThe message is simple. Clean, you might say.While cleaning up one of the biggest environmental messes inthe United States, it’s best to leave as small a footprint as possible.It’s an attitude that Mission Support Alliance stresses in its role as a key contractor at the Hanford nuclear reservation....
Desert Buick GMC has been renamed to include Speck brandThe owners of C. Speck Motors Inc.have bought another established car dealership in the region, bringing theirtotal number of dealerships to five. The sale of Desert Buick GMC at 2910W. Clearwater Ave. in Kennewick resulted in an immediate rebranding to SpeckBuick...
