Lokam.ai, a new, voice-first, AI-powered sales and service platform built for dealerships and backed by its first customer, World Auto Group, is now online. +
Klarna’s Pay in Full, Pay in 4 and longer-term financing solutions are now available to dealers using Tekion’s AI-powered service scheduling platform. +
Car Wars has integrated its AI-powered Cari Scheduler with UpdatePromise’s service scheduling and communications platform for franchised dealerships. +
Tekion and Numa have teamed up to help dealers schedule more service appointments by connecting Numa’s AI Appointment Agent with Tekion’s Automotive Partner Cloud. +
Ava AI by Get My Auto promises improved efficiency and customer satisfaction by leveraging AI to move all the functions of a traditional DMS and CRM onto one interface. +
CEO Jay Vijayan announced the addition of three new agents to Tekion’s AI Suite and the launch of a new customer conference and industry event at the 2026 NADA Show. +
Blink AI Automotive and Spiffy have partnered to combine Blink AI’s service customer engagement and scheduling capabilities with Spiffy’s mobile operating system. +
BizzyCar has expanded beyond recall-driven campaigns with Service Engine, a new AI platform designed to autonomously find, engage, schedule and follow up with customers. +
Cerence AI will debut two new conversational AI agents — one for dealers and the other for car buyers — at the upcoming CES 2026, which will be held in January in Las Vegas. +
Commercial vehicle dealers tell Equipment Finance News’s Quinn Donoghue that AI is moving the needle at their stores by helping their sales teams work smarter and faster. +
