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Thailand's new vehicle market continued to decline in October, by 11.3% to 77,121 units from strong year earlier sales of 86,931 units, according to wholesale data compiled by the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).

General Motors continued its new product offensive in China this week with the launch new SUV models in a bid to reverse its recent sharp sales decline.

News 22 Nov, 2019

Jaguar’s new E-Pace SUV will go on sale next year, with an all-new platform, tweaked styling and fresh plug-in hybrid powertrains

US beer brewer Anheuser-Busch, with help from truck maker Nikola Motor and EV commercial vehicle specialist BYD, completed its first zero-emission beer delivery in the company's hometown of St. Louis.

Plant closures are never good news but you wield the axe, we cover 'em.

General Motors said strong sales of the redesigned 2020 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy duty pickups had prompted it and Isuzu to spend $175m at the DMAX joint venture to build a diesel engine components plant in Brookville, Ohio.

Panasonic has told Tesla it won't supply Chinese made batteries for locally built EVs and the automaker should look elsewhere, according to a media report.

Hyundai Motor affiliate Kia Motors has unveiled a Chinese version of the Seltos crossover - which it calls the 'all-new KX3' - at the 17th China Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition.

Volkswagen Group subsidiary, Konnect says the Israeli government is actively supporting start-ups in the country as the Middle East State's boom in high-tech innovation shows no sign of slowing.

Bosch says it is actively engaged with municipal authorities as it looks to its technology to solve some of the most pressing urban congestion issues plaguing large cities.

Daimler Truck said it would export a popular North American truck - in right hand drive form, of course -  to Australia and New Zealand [where normal control tractors are the norm for heavy work such as logging, stock movements and Australia's multi-trailer road trains].

Hungary's Investment Agency says strong domestic economic performance remains a powerful tool to attract manufacturing sectors as the country continues its presence as an automotive hub.

Hungary's Investment Agency says strong domestic economic performance remains a powerful tool to attract manufacturing sectors as the country continues its presence as an automotive hub.

Volkswagen Group and the German city of Hamburg are to extend their existing mobility cooperation with a on support e-mobility, innovative mobility services, intelligent transport networking and self driving vehicles.

News 22 Nov, 2019

Half of drivers say local road conditions have become worse since last year, while only 11 per cent believe they’ve become better

An old and unfortunate General Motors recall - which followed crash fatalities - was back in the news this week as a US federal appeals court said GM was not liable for punitive damages over the accidents that occurred after its 2009 bankruptcy and involved vehicles it produced earlier, including vehicles with faulty ignition switches.

The US United Auto Workers union, currently in the final stages of renewing its labour contracts with the Detroit Three automakers, said its international executive board had filed charges under Article 30 of the UAW Constitution against president Gary Jones - who recently took a lengthy leave of absence - and his aide Vance Pearson, aiming to remove them both from their elected positions and to expel them from the union's membership.

Teijin has signed an technical licence agreement with Shanghai Energy New Materials Technology (SEMCORP) to make solvent-based coating separators used in lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIBs) for electric vehicles (EVs).