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Honda R&D, the automaker's subsidiary, has acquired California-based Drivemode "to further strengthen Honda's new value creation in the areas of digital and connected mobility products".

Belgian company Turbos Hoet Group, which specialises in selling new and used trucks as well as truck parts, acquired earlier this year a 50% stake in EVW Holding, the only importer and distributor of DAF trucks in Romania, Ziarul Financiar reported.

For some time, we have observed how the small, rectangle-shaped car roof window is being outshone by more eye-catching roof designs. The design emphasis these days is less on the old tilt and slide sunroofs and more on glass roofs stretching the length of the car and smart combinations of convertible and glass roofs. Magna Car Top Systems, an operating unit of Magna is a global leader of open-air roof systems. To learn more about trends in the sunroof market, we caught up with Uwe Behrendt, Director of Sales for Magna Car Top Systems.

Western Europe's car market up 13.9% in September

Valmet Automotive is working on standardised, optimal communication and data transmissions from single-cells to the Battery Management System (BMS) and will present the first results at the 28th Aachen Motor Colloquium from 7-9 October.

Hydro is opening an aluminium research laboratory in Sweden to test new types of alloys and their extrudability.

AGP Group has opened its automotive glazing plant in Belgium producing panoramic roofs with switchable glazing technologies and HUD windscreens.

Parent Geely and subsidiary Volvo Cars plan to merge their existing combustion engine operations into a stand alone business in order to establish a new global supplier that will develop combustion engines and hybrid powertrains, the pair announced in a statement.

Blink Charging has inked a multi-year agreement with ElectroChile to bring EV stations to the South American country.

Japan's new vehicle market jumped by 12.9% to 548,209 units in September from 485,377 units a year earlier, according to registration data released by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told investors he expects the company produce between 360,000 and 400,000 vehicles in 2019 and has posted record Q3 volumes, as widely predicted.

The Volkswagen Group is the first OEM to officially announce vehicle world premieres for the next Auto Expo. India's bienniel motor show takes place in Greater Noida near Delhi.

The Volkswagen Group is the first OEM to officially announce vehicle world premieres for the next Auto Expo. India's bienniel motor show takes place in Greater Noida near Delhi.

Honda, an unfathomably minor brand in Britain, offers a small range of vehicles, each one being worthy of a lot more attention from buyers. The CR-V Hybrid illustrates that point perfectly and signals a change of strategy with electrification now the default setting for future Honda models in the European region.

Jaguar on its own is far from a viable business, as global deliveries of only 37,323 vehicles (-11%) in the 1 July to 30 September quarter shows. Tata Motors is nonetheless standing behind the troubled brand even if some believe that both the leaping cat and Land Rover might be sold to another OEM. For now though, spending on Jaguar continues, with an emphasis on electrification for all manner of future vehicles.

Tata wholesale deliveries collapsed by 56% in September, way more than the overall Indian market's 23% fall after a 31% dive in August. The brand not only dropped a long way behind third placed Mahindra but Toyota, Honda and Renault overtook it. Worse, something once unthinkable could happen in October: relegation to eighth by a new-to-India make.

Volta has unveiled a public-access DC fast charging network in the US, which will be free for the first 30 minutes.

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