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News 4 Nov, 2019

This year’s LA Motor Show opens its doors to the world's press on 18th November – here’s a glimpse of what you can expect to see

Domestic sales by South Korea's five largest automakers declined by 3.3% to 134,895 units in October from 139,557 units in the same month of last year, according to preliminary data released individually by the companies.

News 4 Nov, 2019

More power and less weight envisaged for Jaguar’s electric SUV by way of Lister transformation

Electrify America and Hubject have unveiled their Plug&Charge solution for North America.

Cooper Tire is planning to increase ownership in its Mexico joint venture manufacturing facility, Corporación de Occidente (COOCSA), from 58% to 100%.

Cerence has appointed Prateek Kathpal as Chief Technology Officer.

Fisker has revealed the name of its upcoming all-electric 'luxury sports utility vehicle': Fisker Ocean.

Artificial Intelligence provider, Seebo, has announced a new cooperation with Skoda.

FCA has reported net profit from continuing operations for Q3 at EUR0.8 billion, Adjusted net profit of EUR0.9 billion, Adjusted EBIT of EUR1.5 billion, margin at 5.7%. Full-year guidance is confirmed, the company said. 

Goodyear is collaborating with mobility company, Priva, to provide tyre monitoring capabilities.

News 2 Nov, 2019

Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council is the only local authority without any council-owned public EV chargers whatsoever

This week was dominated by the news of a merger proposal for PSA and FCA.

Sales of new vehicles in southeast Asia's six largest markets combined continued to weaken in the third quarter of 2019, with sales falling by 6.3% to 851,820 units from 908,913 units sold in the same period of last year. This follows a negative second quarter for the market and brings the nine-month year-to-date total to 2,538,718 units - 2.4% lower than the 2,600,737 units sold in the same period of last year.

Hyundai Motor this week moved to strengthen the management of its Chinese operations to help revive its sales in the world's largest vehicle market.

Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University in the USA claim to have developed a process which dramatically speeds up recharging of electric vehicle batteries.

Toyota has said it is ready to produce electric vehicles at its plant in Indonesia to support the government's target for these vehicles to account for 20% of passenger vehicle production in the country by 2025.

News 2 Nov, 2019

The short wheelbase Land Rover Defender 90 will deliver the Webb Ellis Trophy to the 2019 Rugby World Cup final

In a sign of further management shake-up at Nissan, the company has appointed American Stephen Ma as its next chief financial officer and said Hitoshi Kawaguchi and other veteran executives were stepping down.