The Japanese auto industry maintained its strong grip on the vehicle markets of southeast Asia last year, according to exclusive data provided to just-auto.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan plans to charge the most polluting cars and vans a daily fee of 12.50 pounds ($16) to enter the city center from 2019, bringing the levvy forward from September 2020 as previously planned by his predecessor.
European lawmakers endorsed tougher draft regulations for the approval of new cars sold in the EU.
Bosch and Daimler have agreed to set up a development alliance that aims to make a system for fully automated (SAE-Level 4) and driverless (SAE-Level 5) vehicles a reality on city streets - they say - by the start of the next decade.
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4 Apr, 2017
The planet's oil reserves are set to come under new pressure as Mercedes-AMG unleashes the 503bhp GLC 63 twins
A former Google engineer at the center of a fight over self-driving car technology made more than $120 million, highlighting the intense competition for talent in the nascent sector.
The prophets missed their targets in March. Most everyone was looking for an improved month, even predicting the best March since 2000. Whoops.
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4 Apr, 2017
Special edition Black Pack Clubmans inject a little extra style on Cooper Clubman and Cooper D Clubman models
BorgWarner is to invest US$10m in Autotech Ventures. Through this new investment, BorgWarner's chief strategy officer, Brady Ericson, sees investment opportunities that apply to propulsion technologies and mobility areas outside of BorgWarner's current product portfolio.
For anyone that still thinks vehicle body design is simply a matter of rolling out some steel sheet, bashing it a few times and spot welding the resultant frame and panel parts into a car, let he or she come to Audi. And marvel at an 'Aluminium Space Frame' body destined for the redesigned A8, out later this year, that contains no fewer than 29 different materials. Knocked together with 14 joining processes.
New-car registrations in Italy rose by 18 percent last month, partly due to one more working day than the year before. The increase is the 34th year-on-year monthly rise in market sales and the best result for the month since 2010.
A123 is to build a new US$40m headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan, housing all corporate functions, an engineering centre, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.
Volvo has lured former BMW and General Motors purchasing executive Martina Buchhauser to take a newly created board level procurement post at the fast-expanding automaker.
Hyundai confirmed it will join Europe's booming subcompact SUV segment with a new model called the Kona. The SUV will compete with models such as the Renault Captur and Nissan Juke.
Robert Bosch and Daimler are partnering to develop a system that will enable a self-driving taxi service by the start of the next decade.
Tesla's market capitalisation has risen to a level higher than that of Ford. Tesla's share price rose on Monday after it posted record quarterly deliveries.
Bosch is to recruit 20,000 specialists and executives in the technical and commercial fields this year, with half of all jobs currently advertised relating to software in some way.
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4 Apr, 2017
SEAT adds hot FR trim level to Ateca SUV range, while introducing a new 2.0-litre TSI petrol engine with 187bhp
Sales of new passenger cars in Germany jumped 11 percent in March, helped by two extra selling days.
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