Tesla Motors, which plans to be building half a million electric vehicles a year at its only production plant, has bought Grohmann Engineering. Much of the reason for buying the firm is to tap its expertise in robotics for the production of cars and battery packs at Tesla's existing and future factories.
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European Commission (EC) officials have added their voices to growing optimism a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) can be concluded with Japan by the end of this year with the automotive sector forming a key plank of Brussels' thinking.
The next-generation Ford Explorer was caught during testing recently on public roads. The vehicle, due out possibly as early as summer 2018, appears to be growing in size.
Workers at BMW's Mini and Rolls-Royce car plants in the UK have backed strike action in a consultative ballot over plans by the automaker to move staff to a less generous pension plan.
Between an unhappy electorate, indecisiveness from the Federal Reserve over interest rates and anemic economic growth, automotive analysts are stretching to remain positive as uncertainty grows over whether car sales have peaked.
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8 Nov, 2016
Black Edition leaf is kitted out with black styling pack. Micra car sharing scheme also revealed
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American Axle's bold move last week to acquire Metaldyne in a $3.
I recall my first drive in a Toyota Hilux pickup truck, 40 years (ye gods) ago. I was working for a Toyota dealership, in the service department, and a couple of electricians I knew were setting up their own business and needed a pickup, each. With visions of a decent 'finders fee', times two, I persuaded the commercial vehicle sales chief to let me take a demo home to show the boys. The outcome was not good.
Tesla says it will buy the German company Grohmann Engineering to improve its automated manufacturing systems. The deal will help the electric-car maker ramp up its production in a bid to reach its target of 500,000 vehicles by the year 2018.
French Renault unions have concluded their fifth round of negotiations with the automaker, which says it will take on 3,000 'contract duration indeterminée' (CDI) or non-fixed contract staff, of which 50% will be for manufacture and the other half involved in unspecified "other functions."
The California Air Resources Board promised Monday to use its expanded testing procedures to crack down on automakers that use defeat device software to emit more tailpipe pollutants than the state's laws allow.
As China's temporary car purchase tax reduction expiry date approaches, there is increasing speculation inside China that an extension of the tax into 2017 or further market support are being considered by the government.
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8 Nov, 2016
An updated version of Mercedes’ iconic G-Class SUV has been spied winter testing ahead of 2017 launch
Renault-Nissan has promoted Veronique Sarlat-Depotte as its new head of the alliance's joint purchasing operations.
General Motors expects sales of new cars and light trucks in Brazil to rise to 2.4m in 2017 from an estimated 2.1m this year, the GM Brazil head said at an industry event in São Paulo.
Two years into a recession that has sent Brazilian car sales to the lowest in almost a decade, the country chief at General Motors expects the pain to subside in 2017.
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