UVeye said Thursday it has formally entered the Canadian market, switching on its automated vehicle inspection systems at dealerships in British Columbia and Ontario and setting the stage for a wider national rollout through the balance of 2026.
The Teaneck company builds drive-through scanning tunnels that photograph and analyze a vehicle the moment it rolls into a service lane. Cameras and sensors capture the exterior, the undercarriage and the tires in a single pass, and machine-learning models flag tire wear, underbody damage, fluid leaks, dents and scratches in seconds. Service advisers get back a visual condition report they can walk through with the customer at the counter rather than relying on a technician’s handwritten checklist.
The same scan doubles as a merchandising tool. UVeye says the system produces a one-minute appraisal along with high-resolution, photobooth-quality images that can be dropped straight onto a vehicle display page for retail or wholesale listing — collapsing a reconditioning-to-online step that has traditionally taken dealers days.
Omer Bar Joseph, the company’s chief revenue officer, framed the northern move as an obvious extension of the U.S. business, saying “Canada is a natural next step for us.” He argued that Canadian road and weather conditions push more damage underneath the vehicle, where a manual walkaround is least likely to catch it, and said early British Columbia adopters are already finding problems that would otherwise have been missed.
The first Canadian installations are running at Trotman Auto Group stores in British Columbia, including Comox Valley Toyota and Cranbrook Toyota, where the tunnels are scanning vehicles daily. Virgil Davies, fixed operations manager at Comox Valley Toyota, said the dealership invested in the technology for inspection consistency, and that catching items that slip past a manual check both opens repair revenue and cuts the cost of repeat inspections and rework. Brady Smith, general manager at Cranbrook Toyota, pointed to the customer-facing side: advisers reviewing tire condition and visible damage with the owner at check-in, with photographic evidence attached.
Why dealers are buying it
The pitch to Canadian dealers is essentially the same one that has worked in the United States. Service departments are capacity-constrained, technician hiring remains difficult, and customers increasingly expect to see proof rather than take a service writer’s word for a recommended repair. Missed repair opportunities represent revenue that never reaches the work order — and inconsistent inspections between technicians make those misses hard to track.
Automated inspection also lands at a moment when the value of the existing vehicle parc is elevated. Tariff friction across North American auto trade has raised the cost of new inventory and pushed more consumers toward keeping and repairing what they already own, which puts a premium on service-lane throughput and on identifying work while the car is physically in the bay.
Building on a North American base
The Canadian launch is an extension of a footprint UVeye has been assembling for several years rather than a standing start. The company says it now has more than 1,000 systems deployed or under contract across dealerships, fleets, auctions, rental operations and OEM logistics facilities in North America, with those systems collectively analyzing millions of vehicles a month. That volume is arguably the more valuable asset: it produces one of the largest real-world datasets of vehicle condition anywhere in the industry, which in turn sharpens the detection models.
UVeye had already been laying Canadian groundwork before this week. In June it launched Scan to Sold, a product that turns a single service-lane scan into a retail-ready listing and integrates with Cox Automotive inventory tools including vAuto; the company said at launch that Canadian dealerships were already using it. It also announced a CARFAX integration this year that pulls service history and open-recall data into the inspection report, so an adviser sees maintenance records and condition findings in one view.
Founded in 2016 by brothers Amir and Ohad Hever, UVeye began as a security company — the original application was detecting threats concealed under a vehicle’s undercarriage — before pivoting the same computer-vision stack toward automotive retail. It is headquartered in Teaneck with operations in Tel Aviv, and has raised well over $380 million from investors that include General Motors, CarMax, Volvo Cars, Toyota Tsusho, Hyundai, Woven Capital and W.R. Berkley. Fast Company named it one of the world’s most innovative companies for 2026, ranking it first in transportation.
For New Jersey, the story is a Bergen County technology company exporting a product built on North American service-lane data into a foreign market — and doing it through OEM and dealer-group relationships rather than a standalone sales push. The Canadian rollout is scheduled to continue adding installations through the rest of the year.
JBizNews Desk | Teaneck, N.J.
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