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Spain's acting Industry Minister says she wants the country to become a platform to attract companies involved in CASE technologies as the industry transits from conventional fuel burn to cleaner propulsion alternatives

BMW says it is using artificial intelligence (AI) in its quality control and monitoring systems in automotive production.

UK prime minister Theresa May has signed off a GBP500m loan guarantee to help Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover build electric cars in Britain.

Knorr-Bremse and Continental announced they had completed and shown some customers at testing grounds their truck platooning demonstrator operating.

Renault has posted first half volume down 6.7% with 1.9m vehicles sold, in a global market which fell 7.1%.

News 16 Jul, 2019

Prime Minister announces guarantee, which will help JLR secure loans to further develop electric vehicles

News 16 Jul, 2019

New app shows parents how many miles they’ve driven their children and says what chores they should do to pay for it

Tesla which launched 'fully self-driving' computers last April and has already installed them in recently built  Model S, X, and 3 vehicles, reportedly might start retrofitting the chips into older cars.

News 15 Jul, 2019

Volkswagen launches new manual gearbox which is more efficient than before, will be used in new Passat first

Spain is not playing a low-cost labour game to attract overseas OEMs and suppliers, says its automotive association, but is more concentrating on the efficiency of its factories and solid union agreements.

Porsche Engineering, which has operated the facility since 2012, said the renovation of the 12.6km circular track and dynamic platform for car testing at the Nardo Technical Centre in Apulia, Italy, had been completed and opened officially.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), China's largest automotive lithium-ion battery maker, has forecast a 120-150% annual profit growth in the first half of 2019 amid a booming new energy vehicle (NEV) market.

Volkswagen claims its new six-speed manual, the MQ281, saves up to 5g of CO2 per kilometre, compared with previous transmissions, depending on the engine-gearbox combination.

As trade tensions between the US and EU simmer, a German government minister has visited Daimler's US vehicle manufacturing plant at Tuscaloosa, underscoring the plant's importance to the German engineering giant and the US economy.

Spain's supplier association is underlining why the country is proving so attractive to overseas and domestic producers, who are now grappling with the new challenges of CASE technologies and Industry 4.0.

Swedish EV manufacturer NEVS and autonomous vehicle start-up AutoX have agreed an exclusive partnership to use AutoX's AD technology for NEVS' new vehicle architecture.

News 15 Jul, 2019

England will be the first country in the world to introduce mandatory electric car charging points for new-build homes

News 15 Jul, 2019

Government “prepared to intervene” to force contactless payments on public chargers; Chargemaster announces contactless payment