Kelly Taylor

Winnipeg

Copy Editor and Freelance Writer at Winnipeg Free Press

Kelly Taylor, freelance writer and copy editor and automotive blogger, Winnipeg Free Press. Automotive Journalist of the Year, 2015.

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Parsimonious partnership

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

Mazda’s newest hybrid — the CX-50 Hybrid — is its best-driving, thanks to a partner with the most experience in building hybrids. The CX-50 Hybrid powertrain is Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive, and it arguably is more fun to drive than the CX-50’s hybrid stablemates CX-70 and CX-90. Toyota has been refining the Hybrid Synergy Drive since the mid to late 1990s, having launched the first Prius in 1999. The CX-50 is smaller and lighter than the other two, so it’s more nimble.
Toxic? But It Has a Leaf on the Label!

4 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Aissa Dearing |Rajiv Shah |Kelly Taylor

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. We thought we were slowing the chemical pollution crisis by swapping our bleach for non-toxic cleaning alternatives and ensuring our beauty products only have naturally derived ingredients. Yet, studies demonstrate that green cleaning products and common sustainable swaps still contain ingredients that are harmful to human life.
We spoke, Mazda listened

Jan 17, 2025 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

2025 CX-70 fixes hybrid woes as manufacturer admits missing mark By: Kelly Taylor Posted: 2:00 AM CST Friday, Jan.
Embracing inclusion and collaboration: Human Resources department transitions to People and Culture

Nov 4, 2024 | dal.ca | Kelly Taylor

Beginning this fall, Dal’s Human Resources department will become People and Culture. This move is part of a strategic initiative aimed at focusing on employee experience, cultivating an inclusive environment centered around equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility (EDIA), and improving operational efficiencies and processes. In 2023, Grace Jefferies-Aldridge, assumed the university’s inaugural vice-president, People and Culture role.
Not your grandfather’s Corolla

Oct 25, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

This is the Corolla we’ve been missing. Yes, Toyota has rightly earned a reputation for delivering high-quality, reliable vehicles built like tanks. If people asked me for recommendations for a solid compact car, I’d have no qualms about telling them to put the current Corolla, in either sedan or hatchback form, at or near the top of their shopping lists. When driving enthusiasts think Corolla, however, their thoughts don’t turn to hybrids and automatic transmissions.
No easy answers to ongoing labour shortage issues but retention is key, HR experts say

Sep 17, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

In 2016, John Wallis was stuck at an airport, trying to get home, unaware he was about to experience a powerful anecdote about hiring and retaining staff. As he dealt with the airline’s agent booking a new flight out of Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport, a uniformed member of the U.S. Marine Corps. was waiting behind him. “Did I hear you say you work for Emergent BioSolutions?” the hulking soldier asked.
Among hybrids, Toyota Prius content to let its name speak for itself

Aug 30, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

While some carmakers are diving head first into battery electric vehicles, Toyota seems content to merely dip its toes. The company continues to offer just one fully electric vehicle in Canada — the joint-venture vehicle Toyota calls the BZ4X and Subaru calls Solterra — but offers partial electrification in every segment it plays. The full-size Tundra, the returning off-road icon Land Cruiser, the compact Corolla and almost every vehicle in between is offered with some form of a hybrid powertrain.
Motoring right along

Aug 23, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — In the early days of Toyota’s entrance to the Canadian market, Japanese executives would visit facilities in Toronto and wonder why staff weren’t running through the parking lot to get to work and why employees would leave at quitting time. It’s a story the late F. David Stone, who worked in public relations from those first days until his retirement in the early 2000s, would tell to illustrate the growing pains of two corporate cultures that merged in 1964.
Navigating the electric, and partially electric, vehicle landscape

Aug 16, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor

Globally, the automotive industry has invested more than US$1.2 trillion on zero-emissions driving, but the pace of sales of electric vehicles is slowing, in some cases, falling off a cliff. While Hyundai continues to report traction in selling EVs such as the IONIQ5 and IONIQ6, other EVs are piling up on dealer lots.
Black ink and Whiteouts

Apr 19, 2024 | winnipegfreepress.com | Kelly Taylor |Ken Wiebe

Few predicted with certainty last fall the Winnipeg Jets would even qualify for the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup playoffs. Exceeding the expectations of most fans and so-called experts by finishing second in the Western Conference, they host the Central Division-rival Colorado Avalanche Sunday in the first game of what’s expected to be a tightly contested opening-round series.