Introducing ZZTSL, a true Plug & Play hardware based solution, which intercepts the video signal from the MCU to the screen.
• NOT a BROWSER based solution • NOT a USB based solution • NO hotspot required • NO interference with the OE Tesla APP environment
Features
Wireless CarPlay & Android Auto full screen or PiP (picture-in-picture) modes available
Completely re-designed specifically for a TESLA environment
Retains factory safety display features
Integrates the CarPlay/Android Auto icon to the MENU bar for a factory look
Works on Model 3 (2017‑2024) & Model Y (2020‑2024/25)
3‑year warranty
💡 ATTENTION Dealers & Installers: Tesla says “No.” ZZ2 says “Yes!” Offer customers the smartphone experience they’ve been desperately asking for in TESLA Vehicles.
CHICAGO, IL (07.24.25) – “We’re honored to be partnered with Mid-State Distributing” said Chirs Bennett, ZAPCO and ESB’s Director of US Sales. “There has been a lot of growth in the last year, particularly with ESB Audio. Having a great Distribution Partner with 3 stocking locations in the Mid-West area means more dealers can experience the Sound Quality that ZAPCO and ESB Audio are known to deliver.’
Sean Davis, Branch Manager, pictured by the ESB Audio display in the Chicago location showroom.
“Mid-State Distributing is proud to be a partner with ESB Audio and ZAPCO and look forward to this new opportunity” stated Sean Davis. Branch Manager at Mid-States Distributing.
ESB Audio is an Italian speaker company with over a half century of electroacoustic history. Over the last 55 years, ESB Audio has navigated the winding road of high fidelity and through its evolution has acquired a wealth of experience and knowledge that is rarely encountered elsewhere.
ZAPCO is dedicated to the pursuit of audio fidelity. At ZAPCO, we’ve been doing the same thing we have done for over 40 years, constantly searching out innovative ways to bring better sound to the automotive environment.
Mid-State Distributing has ESB Audio and ZAPCO has inventory in Omaha, Fargo and Chicago and serves dealers in the Midwest and Mountain states.
TORRANCE, CA (07.24.25) – Rydeen Mobile Electronics, a leading innovator in vehicle safety and driver assistance technology, is proud to announce the return of its signature black packaging, reinforcing its vision of a unified, expandable Rydeen ECO-System.
The newly updated packaging features a sleek, durable black box with a subtle microchip-inspired pattern, reflecting Rydeen’s commitment to ECO-System which reprensenting innovation, premium design, and product integrity. This visual refresh also includes luxuriously polished mirror product images, creating a high-end, modern aesthetic that speaks to Rydeen’s continued evolution.
Rydeen ECO-System: Unified & Expandable. At the core of this update is Rydeen’s commitment to its ECO-System philosophy—a product family where digital mirrors, HD cameras, and mounts are fully adaptable and interchangeable. Each component is designed to function within defined technical parameters, enabling dealers and installers to mix and match with confidence and tailor solutions for every vehicle platform.
“Back to Black isn’t just a design choice—it’s a statement,” said Phil Maeda, president and CEO at Rydeen Mobile. “We previously transitioned to white boxes for clarity on shelves, but we’ve come full circle. The new black packaging not only honors our roots but aligns perfectly with the technological sophistication of our ECO-System products.”
Rydeen remains committed to providing high-performance safety electronics that combine style, adaptability, and reliability—with a fresh new look that honors both the past and the future.
SUPERIOR, WI (07.23.25) – New AMSOIL 100% Synthetic ATV/UTV Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) Fluid is specifically designed by AMSOIL to deliver optimum performance and protection in hard-working Polaris® STEELDRIVE® CVTs. As manufacturers introduce advanced technology to increase UTV performance, AMSOIL delivers purpose-built protection.
The latest CVT technology features a durable steel belt to provide smooth operation and improved torque and power delivery. However, steel-belted CVTs are prone to metal-on-metal friction that can increase heat and wear during heavily loaded, high-temperature operation. AMSOIL 100% Synthetic ATV/UTV CVT Fluid is formulated with exceptional friction properties to promote smooth, consistent operation while reducing shudder. Built with outstanding film strength that resists extreme pressure, AMSOIL 100% Synthetic ATV/UTV CVT Fluid delivers maximum protection in severe operating conditions. It provides superior extreme-temperature performance and protects against wear for maximum CVT life.
“These machines are overbuilt and made to work hard,” said AMSOIL Director, Product Marketing – Powersports Len Groom. “We purpose-built AMSOIL ATV/UTV CVT Fluid to provide outsized performance and protection so users can be confident when they’re pushing their side-by-side to the limit.”
Use AMSOIL 100% Synthetic ATV/UTV Continuously Variable Transmission Fluid in Polaris STEELDRIVE CVTs. It is Warranty Secure™ and provides an excellent alternative to original equipment manufacturer (OEM) fluids.
DIAMOND BAR, CA (07.23.25) – The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Memorial Scholarship Fund has proudly awarded $99,500 in scholarships and loan-forgiveness awards to 50 individuals this year. The recipients include current students pursuing careers in the automotive industry and employees of SEMA-member companies.
The SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund is dedicated to helping the future generation of automotive industry leaders get a head start in their careers and current industry professionals lower their student debt.
“This year’s scholarship recipients embody the innovative spirit, relentless drive, and unwavering passion the industry needs for future growth,” said Jose Escobar, SEMA project manager of recognition programs. “Their applications not only highlighted their unique stories and accomplishments but also reinforced that the future of the industry is in great hands.”
Last year’s scholarship award winners
The SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund has awarded over $3 million since its inception in 1984. The application for next year’s awards will open in January 2026 at www.sema.org/scholarships.
SEMA Scholarship Award Winners Recipient (Institution, Major) – Award Designation (if applicable)
Alex Anthony (Colorado State University-Fort Collins, Mechanical Engineering) – Joe Hrudka Award
Zachary Been (Oklahoma State University-Main Campus, Mechanical Engineering) – Dan Borré Award
Benjamin Carter (University of Alabama, Mechanical Engineering)
Mason Cox (McPherson College, Automotive Restoration) – ARMO Award
Carter Cygan (Kansas State University, Mechanical Engineering)
Salvador Diaz-Santos (Allan Hancock College, Automotive Technician) – Melvin Burton Award
Tara Feeney (McPherson College, Automotive)
Jacob Gubin (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mechanical Engineering)
Angel Gutierrez Saavedra (East Los Angeles College, Automation Technology)
Vincent Hobart (Pittsburg State University, Education) – FLN Award
Andrew Hoppen (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Mechanical Engineering) – Wally Parks Award
Robert Jacobs (Belmont Abbey College, Automotive) – Nat Danas Award
LeeRoy Jenkins (Harvard University, Biology) – Steve Woomer Award
Evan Jezek (Central Piedmont Community College, Welding)
PALM BEACH, FL (07.22.25) – A cutting-edge camera interface designed specifically for Ford vehicles equipped with SYNC 4 systems. This advanced add-on empowers drivers with up to three external camera views, significantly enhancing visibility and maneuverability-especially for those driving large vehicles with limited external sight lines.
Perfect for:
Ford drivers seeking oem-quality composite camera upgrades
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DIAMOND BAR, CA (07.22.25) – The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), producers of the SEMA Show, the major trade-only automotive aftermarket event held annually in Las Vegas, has announced the return of SEMA Fest for Friday, November 7. Back for its third year, SEMA Fest 2025 promises an all-star music lineup of Queens of the Stone Age, The Black Crowes and Neon Trees, high-performance automotive demonstrations, drifting, motorsports, custom vehicles, and more. SEMA Fest caps off the week-long SEMA Show, taking place November 4-7, 2025, both conveniently located within the Las Vegas Convention Center campus with SEMA Fest returning to the Bronze lot.
Early bird pre-sale tickets are available July 16–starting as low as $65–with the general on-sale kicking off this Friday, July 18 at 10 am PT via www.semafest.com. General admission and VIP concert access tickets are available, as are combined tickets, offering entry to both SEMA Fest and SEMA Show Friday public access of the indoor SEMA Show. This exclusive bundle gives automotive enthusiasts rare access to the world’s largest automotive aftermarket trade event–typically reserved for industry insiders–alongside performances from some of today’s biggest bands.
What to expect at SEMA Fest 2025
Beyond iconic sets from rock greats Queens of the Stone Age, The Black Crowes, and Neon Trees, SEMA Fest 2025 is set to deliver adrenaline-fueled automotive action with live motorsports demonstrations. Fans can expect drifting exhibitions, high-speed precision driving, and high-horsepower showcases that bring the world of extreme automotive performance to life. In addition to the live action, SEMA Fest will feature an expanded display of exclusive, custom, and concept vehicles–many of which can’t be seen anywhere else outside of SEMA Fest–giving enthusiasts rare, up-close access to some of the most innovative and cutting-edge builds in the automotive world.
Before the music starts at SEMA Fest, automotive enthusiasts can cap off the week with a rare opportunity to experience the SEMA Show during SEMA Show Friday – Open to the Public, taking place Nov. 7. A bucket-list event for car lovers, the SEMA Show offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the trends, builds, and innovations driving the aftermarket industry. It’s the ultimate way to celebrate car culture before heading into a night of live entertainment at SEMA Fest.
“SEMA Fest brings the excitement of car culture and live music together like never before,” said SEMA Vice President of Events Tom Gattuso. “When combined with the rare opportunity to walk the SEMA Show floor during Friday’s public access, it creates an unforgettable experience for enthusiasts. It’s the ultimate way to celebrate the industry, the community, and everything that makes car culture so special.”
Founded in 1963, the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) serves as a leading voice for the worldwide car culture, representing over 7,000 member companies that create, buy, sell, and use specialty-automotive parts that make vehicles more unique, attractive, convenient, safer, fun, and even like new again. The association started highlighting the passion of the industry and sharing it with the enthusiast public in 2011 with the SEMA Cruise, which evolved in 2014 with SEMA Ignited, and then once more in 2021 with the SEMA Show Friday – Open to the Public. In 2023, SEMA first introduced SEMA Fest, a new event that celebrated the relationship between music, motorsports, and car culture. It has since become a one-of-kind live and epic event that is a true bucket-list experience for music lovers and car enthusiasts.
In 2023, the SEMA Show attracted 160,000 attendees and 2,400 brands, making it the top convention in Las Vegas, as reported by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s research center. This year’s event looks to be even bigger with 4.6 million square feet of exhibit space booked by thousands of leading brands leading up to the industry’s most important gathering of the year.
SEMA Fest 2024 delivered high-energy performances from Cage The Elephant, Sublime, featuring original members alongside Jakob Nowell, Fitz and The Tantrums, and Petey. Fans also witnessed adrenaline-fueled drifting exhibitions from the skilled team at OPTIMA Unleashed, adding to the festival’s signature mix of live entertainment and car culture. The inaugural SEMA Fest in 2023 set the tone with a diverse lineup of chart-topping and emerging artists, including Imagine Dragons, Incubus, Wiz Khalifa, AJR, Third Eye Blind, Bush, Ludacris, Walk The Moon, The Struts, and more.
REDMOND, WA (07.2125) – The Modus Tesla Cybertruck drew attendees at the Electrify Expo in Redmond WA like a magnet. Jason Digos welcomed attendees for a demo of the worlds loudest audio system installed in a Tesla Cybertruck. Area rep Dan McMillan, InPhase Marketing, was also on site.
“This was our first time to exhibit at an Electrify Expo. We really connected with a lot of people and definitely plan to attend future Electrify Expos” Jason Digos, Modus Senior Sales Trainer, related.
Continuing “Underneath the Modus tent, we displayed the system that’s in the Cybertruck which was on live in the booth. We also made a special T-shirt that we offered to attendees. As we were doing a demo with them, we gave them a T-shirt if they made a social media post during the demo.”
Jason Digos pictured by the Cybertruck once the booth was set up.
Jason was set to show the Cybertruck system to attendees.
Attendees who made a social media post during the live demo received a custom T-shirt.
Jaren Digos, Delta Concepts, crafted the installation that demonstrates Modus’ innovative PREACT Current Averaging Technology operating directly on Tesla’s 48V DC electrical system making this a significant advancement in mobile audio integration with electric vehicles.
“This was he first Electrify Expo for me. Jason let me know about the event in Redmond and I’m very glad I attended. The EV category is certainly growing with electric vehicles plus there were skateboards and so many other things attendees were using and checking out at the event” McMillan stated.
This image, taken when the Cybertruck was unveiled at a previous event, shows the total scope of the MODUS installation.
In 2025 there are 8 Electrify Expos on the calendar with Redmond being the fourth. San Francisco in August, Chicago in September, New York in October and Dallas in November complete the 2025 schedule.
NEW YORK, NY (07.21.25) – SiriusXM announced the launch of SiriusXM Play, the company’s first low-cost, ad-supported subscription package. Welcoming new listeners to experience the company’s flagship audio service at a low monthly price of less than $7, SiriusXM Play offers access to over 130 channels with limited ads in-car and even more to discover streaming in the app, delivering a compelling subset of its signature premium, curated music, talk, and sports programming at an exceptional value. For marketers, Play expands on SiriusXM’s existing talk programming ad inventory to now include the previously untapped opportunity to reach consumers within its unparalleled music channels, giving advertisers a one-of-a-kind platform to meaningfully connect in the car and out with listeners across North America.
“SiriusXM Play presents us with an incredible opportunity to thoughtfully scale our audio service on the road and off to even more listeners across North America,” said Wayne Thorsen, SiriusXM’s Chief Operating Officer. “With Play, we can reach and engage with new, more price-sensitive listeners with a low-cost, ad-supported subscription with more than 130 channels available in-car and so much more in-app, and leverage our strengths across both content and technology as the premium audio leader in-car to deliver this compelling offering to consumers and advertisers alike.”
Currently available on a limited basis, SiriusXM Play will continue to scale in the coming months, with package pricing and further details to be announced later in 2025.
Bringing powerhouse programming across music, talk, and sports to a new cohort of listeners
SiriusXM Play gives subscribers more than 130 music and talk channels in-car that longtime listeners have come to know and love, including homegrown music formats and fan-favorite channels across sports, talk and entertainment, news, and comedy. As it rolls out, Play is expected to include:
Music: Hits 1, The Highway, Hip-Hop Nation + more Sports: Mad Dog Sports Radio, College Sports Radio, Fantasy Sports Radio + more News: POTUS, Patriot, Progress + more Talk + Entertainment: Radio Andy, Conan O’Brien Radio, TODAY Show Radio + more Comedy: Kevin Hart’s LOL Radio, Comedy Central Radio, Jeff & Larry’s Comedy Roundup + more SiriusXM Play subscribers with 360L vehicles may also have access to additional features in-car such as SiriusXM Xtra channels.
In addition to its built-for-the-road, easy-to-use in-car experience, SiriusXM Play includes access to the SiriusXM app, the perfect complement to the in-car listening experience that allows fans to go deeper into their passions and get closer to their favorite music, artists, personalities, and sports. The SiriusXM app gives Play subscribers access to SiriusXM’s complete catalog of live and on-demand content as well as Artist Stations and podcasts, outside of the vehicle and wherever subscribers would like to listen.
Opening up new, premium inventory for advertisers in the final frontier for digital media: the car
The launch of Play allows marketers to tap into SiriusXM’s premium, curated music programming and unlock its highly passionate subscriber base in an intimate environment with few distractions: the car. Offering about half the ad load of traditional AM/FM radio at launch, SiriusXM Play gives marketers the ability to deliver powerful audio ads with fewer interruptions and reach an engaged, leaned-in consumer.
Play is expected to enhance SiriusXM’s extensive advertising portfolio, which reaches an impressive 160 million listeners each month across satellite broadcast (featuring SiriusXM’s talk and sports programming in addition to the new ad-supported Play music channels), streaming (inclusive of Pandora, SoundCloud, and more), and the SiriusXM Podcast Network. By the end of 2025, advertisers will be able to seamlessly buy across all of these touchpoints with one unified transaction, tapping into powerful audiences at scale in audio. This further solidifies SiriusXM Media, the company’s advertising group, as a leader in ad-supported audio.
In the coming months and year, the company is expected to launch additional advanced capabilities such as enhanced targeting, dynamic ad insertion, creative channel takeover packages, and measurement tools across SiriusXM’s ad inventory in 360L-enabled vehicles. This will give marketers a powerful platform to connect their brand with engaged audiences in the car and in other places only audio can reach. An important part of consumers’ daily routines – from the morning commute to their workout routine to preparing dinner – audio creates deeper connections between listeners and creators, leading to more attention and higher impact for advertisers.
“Play is an exciting net-new opportunity for marketers looking to tap into passionate, high-quality audiences across some of SiriusXM’s most beloved music, talk, and sports channels, reaching listeners in the moments that matter,” said Scott Walker, Chief Advertising Revenue Officer, SiriusXM. “The car is the final frontier for digital ad-supported media. In the short term, we are opening up new inventory for marketers, including premium, curated music. In the long term, with more advanced capabilities, we have a chance to revolutionize the in-car advertising landscape.”
More to come
SiriusXM Play’s expansion will make the package available to nearly 100 million vehicles by the end of 2025, with further growth on the horizon in the years to come. Additional channels and the more advanced advertising capabilities referenced will continue to roll out over time as the offering evolves.
For listeners looking to access SiriusXM’s signature ad-free music, exclusive artist-led music channels, Howard Stern, live sports play-by-play, league channels and more in-car, SiriusXM offers a compelling suite of packages and price points for every type of fan starting at $9.99 a month. Go to siriusxm.com for more information.
NEW YORK, NY (07.18.25) – SiriusXM will offer listeners nationwide a live broadcast of The 153rd Open this July 17-20 at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
SiriusXM will air 45 hours of live on-course coverage of golf’s original championship across all four rounds of play on The Open Radio channel, which is available to listeners in their cars on channel 92 and on the SiriusXM app. Championship broadcasts will begin on SiriusXM on Thursday and Friday at 2 am ET, and on Saturday and Sunday at 4 am ET, and will continue through the conclusion of each day’s play.
Listeners will hear The Open Radio broadcast, produced by The R&A, which will feature Marcus Buckland, Sue Thearle, Robert Lee, Dave Farrar, Matt Adams, Sophie Walker, Raymond Burns, Amy Boulden, Paul Eales, and Harry Ewing, as well as SiriusXM’s Brendon de Jonge and Carl Paulson and talkSPORT 2’s Rupert Bell. Immediately after each round, SiriusXM will present a live post round show, hosted by Chantel McCabe, Jason Sobel and Taylor Zarzour, which will recap the day’s play and look ahead at the next day’s action.
In the days before and after The Open, and every week throughout the year, SiriusXM’s weekday golf programming lineup features live shows that offer news, analysis, expert instruction and more.
Notable SiriusXM programming during Open Championship Week includes shows hosted by current and former players with extensive major championship experience.
Lucas Glover, who has competed in 11 Open Championships and will be in the field at Royal Portrush, will host his exclusive SiriusXM program, “The Lucas Glover Show,” Tuesday at 8 pm ET.
“ANNIKA,” hosted by legendary 10-time major championship winner Annika Sorenstam, airs Wednesday at 8 pm ET.
“The Rocco Hour” hosted by Rocco Mediate, who competed in nine Open Championships, airs tonight and Tuesday at 7 pm ET.
SiriusXM’s broadcast rights for The Open come through its agreement with the R&A and NBCUniversal, which owns the rights to The Open broadcasts in the U.S.
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