and Alternative Fuel Vehicles had a 71.3% share.Private car sales in March increased 17.5% to 51,774 units, business sales increased 13.5% to 37,647 units and rental car sales increased 3.6% to 40,919 units. ANFAC stated that “March once again demonstrates the strong state of the market, if this trend continues, sales could reach around 1.2 million units this year. While conventional hybrids remain the most popular technology, the number of cu...

News  Updated at: 2026/04/02

mization, technological innovation, and market standardization, signaling a shift into a new phase of high-quality development. New Energy Vehicle (NEV) sales topped 13 million units, with a rise of 20% YoY, and became the main growth force. Many international brands are facing a continued downward trend, while domestic brands largely maintained robust growth throughout the year. However, government intervention on the price war—which started i...

News  Updated at: 2026/03/30

since then, the relationship has started to diverge, with regional output declining by 3.9% in 2024 and 1.5% in 2025, while sales increased by 4.6% in 2024 and 0.6% in 2025. This divergence implies that European automakers can no longer rely on expanding domestic demand to drive output growth. This trend is further highlighted by the shrinking share of European sales serviced by European-built models, which fell from 87% in 2019 to 78% in 2025, a...

News  Updated at: 2026/03/23

s joined the Automotive Chiplet Program (ACP), an international collaboration framework operated by imec, a global research and development organization in Belgium. Through strengthening its technologies, the company aims to provide highly scalable autonomous driving services on a global scale. The trend toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs) calls for systems that allow hardware and software to be separated and flexibly combined. The company's ...

News  Updated at: 2026/03/11

conductor experience to SOAFEE and propose an understanding of cyber security and functional safety for the SOAFEE framework. GigaDevice also hopes to work together with many industry-leading automotive enterprises in the SOAFEE SIG to promote the evolution of automotive E/E architectures under the trend of software-defined vehicles. Based on SOAFEE press release...

News  Updated at: 2026/03/06

ts, business sales increased 1.6% to 30,126 units and rental car sales increased 22.6% to 24,968 units.ANFAC explained that "February marks another positive month for vehicle sales. The rental channel saw the most significant growth, accounting for nearly one in five passenger car sales—a logical trend as companies renew fleets ahead of Easter. In terms of technology, diesel reached a record low market share of 4%. Customers continue to favor c...

News  Updated at: 2026/03/03

are joining forces to urge national governments to strengthen European funding for transport under the future EU budget and to increase the budget of the future Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to at least EUR 100 billion. Transport organisations are calling on the EU member states to reverse that trend of continued underfunding, with a robust European transport network providing the necessary foundation, which is reflected in the future EU budg...

News  Updated at: 2026/02/25

Renault 2025 financial presentation and Q&A: Resilient European momentum, cost headwinds, and disciplined capital strategy driving 2026 transition On February 19, Renault held the presentation for the 2025 financial results, attended by François Provost CEO and other executives. Main Q&As Sales trend in EuropeQ: Renault had sharp deterioration in the European commercial dynamic from November until January. Is this driven by Chinese OEMs gaining ...

News  Updated at: 2026/02/24

bile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced China’s vehicle production and sales results for January 2026. According to CAAM, in January, the overall operation of the automotive industry was stable. The passenger vehicle (PV) market declined, while the commercial vehicle (CV) market maintained a positive trend. The New Energy Vehicle (NEV) market operated steadily, and vehicle exports continued to grow. The main factors leading to the market decline we...

News  Updated at: 2026/02/12

i) have revised their operating income and net income forecasts upward, and Toyota Industries Corporation (Toyota Industries) has raised its net income forecast. They expect that sales to Toyota Motor Corporation, which is selling well in North America and other regions, will increase, and that the trend of a weak yen will help increase their income. They will also steadily pass price increases to automakers in response to the U.S. Trump administ...

News  Updated at: 2026/02/04

r for electric vehicles. The Auto+ Plan has not been published, nor is the extension of the 15% income tax deduction for the purchase of an electric vehicle in effect. It is necessary to provide certainty to the market and consolidate the transformation towards electromobility. It is an unstoppable trend, as can be seen in the fact that diesel’s market share is steadily declining and is now below 5%.” Juan Luis Barahona, President of the Span...

News  Updated at: 2026/02/03

ed below EUR 20,000—pointing to a growing appetite for Compact City Cars. Chinese newcomers on display, such as Leapmotor’s B05, were a hit and added to the sense that many brands see Europe’s smaller end of the market as an opportunity, especially as EV platforms scale up and costs gradually trend down. Speaking to brand representatives at the event, it was clear that the progress in the BEV transition and the need for mobility in dense ci...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/29

assive position in the NEV wave BMW’s predicament is particularly pronounced within the broader transition to new energy. By November 2025, the penetration rate of NEVs in China had surpassed 53%, while that of BMW’s BEV models was only 11.5%, demonstrating a clear lag behind the overall market trend. This gap reflects a wider loss of competitive advantage across several areas. In the realm of intelligentization—the battleground shaping the...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/28

Huawei releases top 10 trends in charging network industry in 2026 Huawei held a 2026 launch event under the theme “Jointly Charging the Road Ahead”. At the event, the company released the top 10 trends in the charging network industry and comprehensively interpreted the industry’s future technological development.According to Huawei, high-quality development has become a must for ultra-fast-charging infrastructure, driving the large-scale ...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/27

con carbide (SiC) power semiconductors in about two-year cycles. With its resistance to “geopolitical risks” utilizing its production locations dispersed in Europe, U.S., and Asia, as well as “industry-wide standardization” that also involves its competitors, the company will respond to the trend of electric vehicles (EVs). The EV market is considered to grow in the medium and long term, despite recent fluctuations. Robert Bosch also anno...

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Turkish vehicle sales up 10.0% and production up 4.0% in 2025 The Automotive Manufacturers Association (OSD) announced that Turkish vehicle sales of 1,413,903 units in 2025 represented a 10.0% increase over 2024. Due to the trend of calming down the inflation and falling interest rates, it saw double-digit growth compared to the previous year. According to the data from Automotive Distributors Association (ODD), Renault sales were 144,331 units i...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/19

enhance flexibility in cockpit design. JTEKT will establish a structure that can flexibly respond to the diverse needs of automakers to maximize order opportunities. The company will introduce a product design that takes into account design language, which varies with the automaker, as well as the trend toward vehicle series development and modularization, and will simultaneously build a production system. JTEKT has already started the developme...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/19

t well over 90% BEV share, also drives up the figure. Compared with 2024, BEV sales in 2025 are 32% higher but of course, 2024 was a very poor year for electrification expansion and so YoY growth in 2025 is flattering. The new requirements for fleets to hit ZEV and low emission targets solidifies a trend that we already see. To date in 2025 business registrations accounted for 60% of all BEV registrations in the region. The proposed removal of co...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/14

as follows. By the end of 2025, the global electric vehicle (EV) battery market continued to grow, but the center of gravity of that growth became increasingly concentrated in China. As the expansion of domestic adoption and price competition progressed simultaneously within China, an LFP-centered trend spread globally, while Chinese battery manufacturers strengthened their influence through overseas local production and customer diversification...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/07

ial vehicles (LCV) decreased by 5.6% in 2025 to 360,505 units. Annual registrations in 2025 dropped to levels lower than those seen during the COVID-19 pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. French media attribute this to high car prices, which are pushing more individuals toward leasing. There is also a trend towards the stabilization of SUV demands. As outlook for 2026, automakers are expected to breathe a little more, following the EU's change of co...

News  Updated at: 2026/01/06