New government subisidies will boost the number of Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell cars in public and private sector fleets in the UK to 20 and see the number of specialist service support centres increased.
Using electric vehicles to store peak production of renewable energy is fast making the Netherlands the international frontrunner for smart charging EVs, claim supporters of the so called Living Lab for Smart Charging.
Grammer Serbia says it is "logical" there is some resistance to new ways of organising supplier factories, but maintains the plethora of technology available to manufacturers is already becoming more prevalent in plants.
Apple has dramatically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, people familiar with the project told Bloomberg.
Volkswagen AG has agreed to pay lawyers representing US owners of 475,000 diesel vehicles just over half of what they were seeking in fees and costs, according to a media report.
Volkswagen reportedly is sharply reining in spending as a consequence of the huge costs incurred by the ongoing diesel emissions test-cheat crisis that has engulfed the automaker.
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Tesla has been told to stop using the Autopilot name for its autonomous driving tech in Germany as it could be misleading for customers
PSA is creating a used-car business unit and buying a stake in a French online retailer as it seeks to double its second-hand car sales to 800,000 within five years.
PSA is creating a used-car business unit and buying a stake in a French online retailer as it seeks to to double its second-hand car sales to 800,000 within five years.
Hungarian Tier 2 supplier, Videoton Holding says it has hugely upped its automotive presence in the last three years as the booming Visegrad countries continue to meet burgeoning demand from OEMs and mass-manufacture suppliers, although warns its pricing structure may have to be reviewed.
PSA plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs, around 3 percent of its workforce, in France next year through a combination of early retirements and voluntary buyouts, a radio report said, citing internal documents.
PSA plans to cut more than 2,000 jobs in France next year, which would be about 3 percent of its total workforce, amid uncertainty over the effects of Brexit and falling diesel sales, a French radio station said.
PT Toyota-Denso Automotive Compressor Indonesia has announced the start of operations at its newly-built US$88m auto components plant in the West Java town of Cikarang, around 70km (40 miles) east of Indonesia's capital city Jakarta.
Denso Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have reached a basic agreement to jointly develop an artificial intelligence technology called Deep Neural Network-Intellectual Property (DNN-IP), which will be used in image recognition systems which have been independently developed by the two companies to help achieve advanced driver assistance and automated driving technologies.
In an interview with the Financial Times newspaper, the German auto industry trade association (VDA) chief has warned that the British auto sector faces decline with output moving to central and eastern Europe if the country loses free and unfettered access to the EU's single market.
Parts of the UK's car industry could move to central and eastern Europe if the country loses access to the single market after quitting the EU, Germany's VDA auto industry association said.
Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Mueller is accelerating cost cuts at the embattled automaker to cope with the diesel-emissions scandal and to finance VW's shift toward electric vehicles and digital services.
Honda had plenty to crow about with the redesigned CR-V. But it opted against a long introduction, for fear of diminishing interest in the popular outgoing model.
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