Japan Mobility Show 2025: BEV and FCEV trucks and buses CV OEMs’ multi-pathway strategies and BYD’s Japan-specific BEV light-duty truck Summary Business environment and each OEM's strategy - From the press briefings Summary of exhibited vehicles: BEV, FCEV, Engine-equipped vehicles Important technologies seen in the exhibits: hydrogen and fuel cell, BEV thermal management, L4 autonomous driving   The Japan Mobility Show 2025, organized by th...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/16

pplies for all Mazda models. Outside Japan, the company has plants in the U.S., China, Thailand, Indonesia, and Mexico to supply localized products to Mazda and other OEMs. In response to CO2 regulations and safety improvements, as well as for the development of next-generation vehicles such as for autonomous driving and ride sharing, the company will focus on proposals that add value to the vehicle as a whole, such as reducing CO2 emissions by r...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/15

rence Center in Bonn (ELIV 2025 organized by VDI Wissensforum GmbH/photo: Copyright © MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved)  This year's event spotlighted the transformative role of open source in vehicle development, alongside cutting-edge topics such as chiplets, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and electromobility. As a premier platform for collaboration among OEMs, suppliers, tech innovators, and researchers, ELIV 2025 ad...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/12

than 120,000 persons, with the largest number being technical R&D personnel. The newly established Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd., a new BYD automotive technology research institute, employs more than 600 high-end R&D personnel to accelerate research on core technologies such as electric drive systems and autonomous driving.   In-house development trends and their impact on the industry power structure As market competition intensifies, many OEMs are b...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/11

) was EUR 39.7 billion, which was a decrease of -4.1% in comparison to the fiscal year ending in December 2023.   At the end of 2023, Continental had around 190,000 employees worldwide, down 6.4% compared to the end of 2023, with roughly 102,000 people allocated for Automotive Technologies (namely Autonomous Mobility and Safety, and Vehicle Networking and Information), a further around 88,000 employees in Rubber Technologies (Tire and ContiTech)...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/09

cra (the March in Japan) and Sylphy models. Aisin Corporation (AT business: former Aisin AW Co., Ltd.) Click here to see recent developments In April 2021, Aisin Seiki and Aisin AW Co., Ltd. integrated their operations with the aim of strengthening their competitiveness in the CASE (connected, autonomous, shared, electric) domain. The agreement included Toyota, and although Aisin Seiki was the surviving company after the merger, the new comp...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/08

in terms of the scale of installation. BYD has announced that it fully guarantees safety during advanced parking situations for all models equipped with its advanced intelligent driving system “God's Eye”. At the same time, the company is focusing on promoting the research and development of L3 autonomous driving, and is one of the first companies in China to obtain the qualification for "L3 autonomous vehicle permit and road driving demonstr...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/05

cle and powertrain concepts firsthand during the popular driving event in front of the Eurogress. A range of current production and concept vehicles were available for test drives, including: BEE – BEV Goes eHighway: large-scale production BEV truck with a pantograph system BMW 740d with Level 3 autonomous driving eD1 FEV Xpeng G9 Lotus Emeya R NIO EL8 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT Renault 5 Suzuki Swift Hydrogen DI Tesla Model 3 equipped with Tula ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/02

ddition, the abolition of credits under the OBBB Act will have a major impact on the company, which achieved sales of USD 99.7 billion in 2024. Although CEO Elon Musk has not announced any major business plans since joining then leaving the Trump administration, the company announced a robotaxi (an autonomous, driverless taxi, a two-seater Cybercab) in October 2024, and is aiming for a market size of 2-6 million units from 2026 onwards. In additi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/01

ny’s technical capability and spirit of continuous challenge —It asserted that this “persistent spirit of challenge” is precisely what the entire automotive industry needs. Mercedes-Benz is currently advancing innovations across multiple fronts, including next-generation batteries, AI-based autonomous driving, and its proprietary operating system. The company is also undertaking its largest-ever new product rollout, planning to introduce ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/28

process of full electrification in the automotive industry. The transportation system will be centered around intelligent connected NEVs and will develop with the aim of achieving "zero accidents, zero casualties, and high efficiency." The Roadmap seeks to realize the large-scale adoption of highly autonomous vehicles, and develop a mature and healthy infrastructure system for vehicle-, road-, and cloud-integrated intelligent connected vehicles. ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/27

es Bhd to take over Infineon’s Bangkok backend fab, Thailand (September 19, 2025)https://www.marklines.com/en/news/333050 Malaysia’s green mobility push highlighted; Over 4,100 EV charging stations in operation (September 11, 2025)https://www.marklines.com/en/news/332572 Malaysia moves to draft autonomous vehicle legislation, learning from global practices (September 9, 2025)https://www.marklines.com/en/news/332385 Malaysia’s first dedicate...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/25

ment solutions, vehicle electronics and connectivity solutions, electric architecture solutions, tires, and technical elastomers. As of December 31, 2024, the company’s organizational structure is divided into group sectors and business areas as follows: Automotive -Architecture and Networking-Autonomous Mobility-Safety and Motion-User Experience-Software and Central Technologies Tires -Original Equipment-Replacement APAC-Replacement EMEA-...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/20

Analysis Report: Power Steering (Chinese Market) Steer-by-wire supports autonomous driving, but commercialization remains a challenge List of Suppliers Introduction I. Overview II. Overview of major power steering suppliers III. Global development of major power steering component suppliers IV. Major power steering suppliers and their customer OEMs VII. Installation status of products from major power steering suppliers VI. Sales comparison of ma...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/18

lenges: While overseas operations continue to grow, achieving scalable profitability requires substantial capital investment and faces increasing regulatory scrutiny in key markets• Technology Transition Costs: The industry-wide transformation toward next-generation technologies (electrification, autonomous driving, connectivity) demands significant R&D investments that may temporarily constrain production growth rates Structural challenges dri...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/14

control from the cloud using AWS by separating the functional safety portion of the vehicle (ASIL-compliant) from the non-functional safety portion (QM). The company has also migrated applications between ROS/ROS2* and AUTOSAR Adaptive and has experience in integrating them on Autoware (open source autonomous driving software). (Figure 34)  ROS/ROS2*:Robot Operating System, a middleware and software framework for robots that differs from a regul...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/13

its sales volume target for the full year of 2025 from 5.5 million units to 4.6 million units.   BYD's 13 millionth NEV rolled off the production line in July. The company will establish an Embodied AI Lab with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to promote research on robotics and autonomous driving. BYD also announced safety measures for intelligent parking and comprehensive compensation for damage, and will introduce a functio...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/11

exus RZ electric vehicle in March 2025, and eliminates the need to turn the steering wheel around when parking. It is also said to be effective in ensuring driver safety in the event of a collision, as there is no upward thrust from the steering wheel. However, although this system is necessary for autonomous driving, there are currently very few passenger cars that are equipped with a by-wire system. Exhibit: Steer-by-wire system Display pan...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/11

nected functions and services will be incorporated. In response, in-vehicle systems also need to overcome issues such as how to ensure the continuity of the connected services.   The term NOA (Navigation On Autopilot) is becoming more prevalent. What is the difference between this and conventional autonomous driving technologies? As Navigation On Autopilot (NOA) indicates, it is navigation for autonomous driving.  Autonomous driving to date has...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/11

Autonomous Driving Patent Trends in Commercial Vehicles Remote-Control and Delivery Systems Summary Patent application trends related to autonomous driving of commercial vehicles Remote control (Toyota Motor Corporation) Delivery systems (NEC Corporation) Berth management (Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.)   This report was created by MarkLines based on patent information from the "swimy" technical information distribution service provided by Toyota ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/31