d technologies.   On April 16, 2025, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Equipment Industry Department held a meeting to promote the market entry of smart connected vehicle products and online software upgrade management operations. The conference stressed that automakers should deeply understand the requirements of the "Notice on the Management of Entry, Recall and Online Software Upgrades of Smart Connected Vehicle Pr...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/28

% price increase for CKD cars/motorbikes in 2026 (February 17, 2025) https://www.marklines.com/en/news/322079 Proton starts building EV plant in Tanjung Malim, Malaysia; to complete by 2025 (February 7, 2025) https://www.marklines.com/en/news/321597 MAA: tax break for fully-imported EVs in Malaysia should continue until 2030 (January 27, 2025) https://www.marklines.com/en/news/320991 Proton, Malaysia to launch at least 3 new models in 2025; Sets...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/21

sed driving safety. He also pointed out the importance of sharing the obtained data among all OEMs, which he thinks is essential to drive progress.   Dr. Dickmann explained that drivers are willing to share private data if they see a benefit in it, such as OTA updates. He also emphasized that OEMs should work with regulators to reach binding agreements on minimum acceptable standards and have a common understanding of the naming and content of f...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/16

Measures to avoid tariff stacking  On April 29, President Trump released an Executive Order that would avoid a situation which appears to stack multiple additional tariffs on top of each other. He said that the additional tariffs on imported finished vehicles stand alone and that no other tariffs should be applied. (relief measures applied retroactively to March 4) Non-overlapping tariffs・Additional tariffs on steel and aluminum products: 25%...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/02

trian detection capabilities and improvements in making automated driving operations more natural. Hyundai IONIQ 5 with 6th-generation Waymo Driver using AI technologies and varied sensor suite for SAE Level 4 autonomous driving from CES 2025   One question to the panel asked what sensors should be used for autonomous vehicles. Stefan Sellhusen noted that each sensor has benefits and disadvantages. For example, lidar has improved range ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/30

ybrid offering. In Europe, RNM build fell by 17k units (-3.5% YoY) with Renault’s -36k unit downturn defeating growth from the other brands, driven by YoY volume losses from model renewals as well as a few ICE cars dropping out of production at some plants, such as the Mégane in Spain (though it should continue in Turkey until 2026). Globally, the trend is expected to reverse in Q2 2025 with RNM output rising 1.4% and then 5.6% in Q3 2025, dri...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/30

administration and are still in effect, a policy that appears to be having its intended effect of making it virtually prohibitive to import LVs from China to the US. The latest tariff news came after our Q1 sales and production forecasts were finalized. Therefore, the data contained in this release should largely be considered a pre-tariff view, although some uncertainty from a lack of clarity over trade policy was factored into the outlook. Whil...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/30

abdomen and 23% to the head; 53% of chest injuries were caused by contact with the center console or the seat back of the adjacent seat, and 21% were caused by collisions with the opposite side door or other objects. These statistics indicate that occupant movement toward the center of the vehicle should be controlled to minimize injuries. In addition, the movement of occupants to the sides of the vehicle occurs not only during side collisions, ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/24

n on the increase for more than 10 years (over 2.0 since 2015). In order to improve efficiency, it is also necessary to reduce waiting times for cargo and the amount of loading and unloading work done by drivers themselves.   Autonomous driving, which is an aim for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, should not be considered a convenience function as is the case with passenger cars, but should be something that improves various logistics issues. Fr...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/18

2027.   Republican Congressman Tim Walberg plans to reintroduce the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act, which would prohibit the federal government from mandating the sale of electric vehicles and restricting the use of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. He argues that consumers should have the freedom to choose the vehicle of their choice, and that government coercion will have a negative impact on companies and force them in...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/26

ole generative AI will play in the improvement of automated functions, to train them faster, and to reduce the number of test kilometers required for their validation. After presenting a range of non-automotive products, Tanja Rückert then made an appeal to the audience: “Artificial intelligence should be taught as a standalone subject at school.” ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS PREREQUISITE   Continental was present at the CES, probably for...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/21

ruary’s result as sales totaled 975k units. The broader Western European economy has seen stagnant growth which has dampened vehicle demand over the last year. In addition to this, a wide array of geopolitical headwinds, and ongoing high vehicle pricing, are hindering sales. While monetary easing should be supportive, the speed of rates cuts is increasingly unclear in the presence of tariffs and their inflationary effects. The LV selling rate f...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/18

Y — sales volumes fell across most markets. The broader Western European economy has seen stagnant growth which has dampened vehicle demand over the last year. In addition to this, a wide array of geopolitical headwinds, and ongoing high vehicle pricing, are hindering sales. While monetary easing should be supportive, the speed of rates cuts is increasingly unclear in the presence of tariffs and their inflationary effects. The European Commissi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/11

aspirations for feature-rich cars while ensuring that entry-level segments remain relevant.   He also highlighted the importance of having the right kind of architecture for vehicles tailored to the Indian market. From an engineering perspective, the vehicle needs to be scalable, and the software should be reusable, as sustainability is not just about recycling but also about reusability.     Brahmanand Patil, MD & President, Vector Informat...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/26

onsiders software to be the key differentiator of a brand, as the customer experience today is mainly created through software-based functions. Furthermore, innovation in the automotive industry is driven by software.     In this respect, software is one of the most important assets of an OEM and should therefore be largely developed in-house and owned by the OEM, the speaker said.   E/E architectures have become increasingly complex over the ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/20

s in Western Europe appears to be getting more challenging. With US President Donald Trump taking a combative approach to international trade relations, which could well see some ratcheting up of tariffs between the EU and US, this will only drag on the region’s economic activity. Monetary easing should provide some support to the economy, and vehicle purchases, but we have trimmed the outlook for the PV market in the face of stronger headwinds...

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

ter 2026, and reach 8.72 million units in 2028. The sales in China are expected to remain at 2.7-2.8 million unit level through 2028, while sales in Germany are expected to remain at the 1.1 million unit level. GlobalData comments on VW Group situation as follows. “VW Group’s global LV build should continue to fall by 4.3% YoY in Q4 2024, contributing to a full-year decline of 4.6% YoY. VW is also facing tough competition from Chinese OEMs...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/10

nd/or software include Continental, Denso, Harman, Impulse Audio Labs, Kendrion, and Siemens, around 30 AVAS vendors were identified in our research. Many suppliers provide module solutions to the market, some specialize in software only and others provide the components needed to build modules. It should be noted that while many OEMs will buy off the shelf AVAS components some are driving their own development of AVAS and will often work with se...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/05

tory over the next few years, even though it is at a slightly lower level than previously forecast.-With Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, automotive-specific policy could be reshaped, including in the areas of EV tax credits, emissions standards, and autonomous vehicle regulation. Should tariffs materialize on Canada and Mexico, there is a downside risk to US sales of 500k to 1 million units per year.-From the previous update of...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/31

We predict that the automaker’s current product plans are still insufficient to recover its sales in China, and that its volumes in the country will more than halve from 2023 to 2036. Its volumes are anticipated to decline in all other regions except for South America; however, the reduction rate should be milder. Volkswagen GroupVW Group’s global LV build should continue to fall by 4.3% YoY in Q4 2024, contributing to a full-year decline of ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/31