roduces parts such as automotive springs. Suzuki restarted operations at the Sagara Plant on April 2 and at the Kosai Plant No. 2 on March 26, while it announced that the decision to continue operations on and after April 4 would be made based on parts availability. The affected models included the Alto, Alto Lapin, and Wagon R mini vehicles produced at the Kosai Plant No. 2 and the Swift, Solio, and Xbee compact vehicles produced at the Sagara P...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/04

the deployment area of SAE Level 4 autonomous zero-occupant vehicles powered by its Nuro Driver system. Nuro will expand the range of its operations across three U.S. cities in two states. The company will expand its zero-occupant vehicle deployment area by 83% in Mountain View, California and Palo Alto, California. In Houston, Texas, Nuro will extend its deployment area by 70%. Nuro’s expanded operational design domain enables new capabilities...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/21

s Volkswagen Group’s significant global scale and industry-leading vehicle platform competencies. The joint venture will be headed by Wassym Bensaid (Rivian) and Carsten Helbing (Volkswagen Group). Developers and software engineers from both companies will join the JV. Teams will be based in Palo Alto, California initially, and three other sites are in development in North America and Europe.  The joint venture will aim to use the existing Riv...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/13

fety. Its overall dimensions are (LWH) 3,395x 1,475x 1,895mm. Sales will begin in early November. This will be the second model that Pak Suzuki will produce and sell which adopts the same body size and engine displacement as the current Japanese mini-vehicles, following the successful launch of the Alto in June 2019. Pak Suzuki sold 42,986 units domestically in FY2023, with a share of 45%. Based on Pak Suzuki Motors website 1 / 2 / 3 social medi...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/14

quipment installation for the plant in April 2024, and began startup and commissioning procedures in July 2024. Initial production runs of the SINANODE production line have resulted in materials with performance matching anode materials produced at OneD’s research and development facility in Palo Alto, California. (OneD Battery Sciences press release on August 26, 2024)...

News  Updated at: 2024/08/30

Suzuki to cut mini vehicle weight by 100kg in next decade On July 17, Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki) unveiled its future development goal to reduce the weight of its mini-vehicle models by 15% or about 100 kilograms by the early 2030s. It also plans to improve motors' output for its hybrid vehicles (HVs) or even turn them into electric vehicles (EVs). Specifically, Suzuki aims to make the Alto, which currently weighs 680 kilograms, lighter by ...

News  Updated at: 2024/07/18

Tesla on hiring spree following massive layoffs Tesla Inc. is looking to hire nearly 800 new employees, three months after CEO Elon Musk ordered the largest round of layoffs in the company’s history. Job postings in June and July show the company is looking to add employees in a number of its locations, including Palo Alto, Fremont and Lathrop, California; Austin and Robstown, Texas; Sparks, Nevada; and Buffalo, New York.  In mid-May, Tesla be...

News  Updated at: 2024/07/18

draws inspiration from the Model T, which was the epitome of innovation and affordability for the masses”.  The new Long Beach campus, located in Douglas Park next to the Long Beach Airport, will coexist with Ford’s new Product Development Center in Dearborn and Greenfield Labs, based in Palo Alto.  The move to Long Beach represents growth for the Ford Advanced Electric Vehicle Team, which has been working for a while in a smaller facility...

News  Updated at: 2024/06/29

staff, will work in a building that totals 50,000 square feet. The office space will eventually have a software quality lab. “We have to have the very best people,” Barra said. “This is going to be a very central hub for us.” GM moved employees from other nearby sites in Sunnyvale and Palo Alto to the new tech hub in Mountain View beginning in early May. While GM has room for expansion at the new innovation center, the company is not nec...

News  Updated at: 2024/05/17

Tesla’s new layoffs in SF Bay area bring total there to 3,354 Tesla will cut 601 more jobs in the San Francisco Bay area, including 378 jobs in Fremont and another 223 jobs in Palo Alto, according to documents on file with the California Employment Development Department (EED). These new layoffs by Tesla come after the company’s disclosure that it had decided to cut 2,753 jobs in the Bay Area, affecting workers in Fremont and Palo Alto. Withi...

News  Updated at: 2024/05/17

r its announcement in February when it announced it was cutting 10% of its workforce. In an April 24 letter to the state's Employment Development Department, the company's HR vice president, Scott Griffin, said Rivian planned to lay off more than 120 employees, including 89 in Irvine and 28 in Palo Alto, beginning in June. "As a follow-up to some of the changes we made to teams in February, in April we shared some additional changes to groups sup...

News  Updated at: 2024/05/15

r Buses announced that it had delivered 265 Setra and Mercedes-Benz buses to various private bus companies in South Tyrol, Italy in February 2024. The contract was facilitated by Daimler Buses Italia and local partners include Auto Rainer GmbH, Pizzinini Bus & Mobility, and Silbernagl GmbH, serving Alto Adige Mobilità transport association. The buses, comprising 209 Setra S 415 LE, 47 Mercedes-Benz Intouro, and 9 Mercedes-Benz Citaro, will trans...

News  Updated at: 2024/03/13

nd 41.7 kW at 5,300 rpm in the CNG variant. The torque output is rated at 89 Nm at 3,500 rpm in gasoline mode and 82.1 Nm at 3,400 rpm in CNG mode. The vehicle offers a fuel-efficiency rating of 24.60 km/l for the gasoline variant, and 34.46 km/kg for the S-CNG variant.With the latest generation of Alto K10, it comes with features like dual airbags, front seat belts with pre-tensioner and force limiter, seat belt reminders for both front and rear...

News  Updated at: 2023/06/09

cus on developing customer applications which include vehicle-specific applications, integration with global tech player ecosystems, the My Porsche app, online portals like the Porsche Finder, e-commerce applications, and Porsche Center websites. The team works closely with the US locations in Palo Alto, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, to serve diverse markets. Based on Porsche AG press release...

News  Updated at: 2023/05/26

Porsche AG will develop and optimize digital products and services for Porsche customers at the Mexican location. In Guadalajara, Porsche Digital will focus on software engineering and developing customer applications. The Guadalajara team will collaborate closely with the U.S. locations in Palo Alto, California and Atlanta, Georgia. (Porsche press release on May 25, 2023)...

News  Updated at: 2023/05/26

nd tech companies including Li Auto, Jidu, HiPhi, Lotus, Changan, and SAIC. Beginning mass production and delivery in July 2022, AT128 has empowered Li L9, L8 Max, L7 Max, Hiphi Z, Lotus Eletre, and various other car models.Based in Shanghai, China, Hesai Technology’s U.S. headquarters is in Palo Alto, California. (Hesai Technology press release on April 14, 2023)...

News  Updated at: 2023/04/17

urg. Medium-term plans envision launching a VC fund. Porsche Investments Management will commence operations in April 2023. It will have a staff of up to ten people by the end of the year, including multiple investment experts and a venture-capital analyst. Together with the offices in Berlin, Palo Alto, Tel Aviv, and Shanghai, they will seek out and contact promising start-ups around the world and bring them into the Porsche cosmos. Porsche Inve...

News  Updated at: 2023/04/05

and child occupant protection. The VW Virtus / Škoda Slavia achieved a top star rating for adult and child occupants showing a stable structure that offered good protection. Maruti Suzuki WagonR scored one star in adult occupant protection and zero for child occupant protection. The Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 scored two stars for adult occupant protection and zero for child occupant protection. While the Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 showed a stable struc...

News  Updated at: 2023/04/05

timation while evaluating synergies between the two companies. Algolux software is currently operating on initial Freightliner Cascadia test vehicles in the U.S. and is being included in areas of Torc's software development efforts. Algolux is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Palo Alto, CA, and Munich, Germany. Based on Daimler Truck AG press release   ...

News  Updated at: 2023/03/20

erations talent as the company grows and expands its development efforts, including advancements in Ford BlueCruise, which already has accumulated more than 50 million miles of hands-free driving.Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with additional engineering hubs in Dearborn, Michigan and Palo Alto, California.The company also will operate a highway-speed test track facility in Greenville, South Carolina.Ford made a strategic shift in 2022 t...

News  Updated at: 2023/03/03