the company has established R&D branches and branch offices in Nanjing, Chengdu, Shanghai, and Shenzhen in China, as well as in Singapore, Europe, Japan, and the United States.  Reflecting its management strategy of "from local to global," the company already owns and operates a production line in Germany. The company is also accelerating the construction of a new smart factory in Spain, with deliveries to European partners (Volkswagen, Volvo, e...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/24

nds with advanced lighting technologies Panel Discussion: Automotive Lighting – Trends and Future Outlook Yanfeng (Keynote): Lighting up the future: latest key trends of China Interior Lighting & Smart Cabin design  The inaugural Automotive Interior Lighting Conference, organized by Ultima Media Germany GmbH, took place on Octobeadvar 21, 2025, at the headquarters of Süddeutscher Verlag Zeitungsdruck GmbH in Munich. This new event served as a...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/23

r conditioning systems for buses, to investment firm H.I.G. Capital, effective July 1, 2024. The sale will not affect Spheros's plants, employees, customers, or suppliers, and the company will continue to operate under the Spheros brand. In May 2023, Valeo announced at Car Symposium 2023 in Bochum, Germany that in October of the same year, it will launch an intelligent heat pump that is twice as efficient as conventional electric heaters and 20% ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/22

Show, but the company's press release is summarized as follows. Daimler Trucks launched its ultra-heavy transport vehicles, the Actros and Arocs, in the Japanese market in September. Sales and service will be handled by Y-Engineering Co., Ltd. (Y-Engineering), which has been importing and selling Mercedes-Benz Unimog and Econic specialty work vehicles for 20 years. The Arocs 4763 was exhibited at the Show to appeal to the market. Y-Eng...

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

ration of the interphase insulating paper required for high-voltage insulation (1,100V products for railway applications are assembled by hand). Permanent magnet synchronous motors → induction motors: Induction motors have only been adopted in limited applications such as Tesla, Cadillac, and the Mercedes-Benz EQC, but their use may increase in the future due to their low cost. Magnetic materials: Neodymium used in Nd-Fe-B magnets is expensive ...

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

other words, automatic transmissions comprise 40% of the market. The European market is nearly the opposite of Japan and the U.S. in terms of transmission makeup. Among D- and E-Segment vehicles, including those models with longitudinal transmissions, the ratio of ATs has been increasing. Audi and Mercedes-Benz have been manufacturing CVT systems in-house, but recently at the timing of model redesigns, they have been sequentially swapping out th...

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

gy Summary Forward-thinking solutions for the mobility and energy challenges of tomorrow (FEV) Bridging reality and virtuality (fka GmbH) Plenary opening sessions (Bugatti, Volkswagen, VDI) The Electric Drive Platform SELECT (ZF) Demonstrating recent Advances of Solid State Battery Technology (FEV, Mercedes-Benz) Plenary closing discussion: Sustainable future of off-highway industrial applications Aachen Colloquium venue with test vehic...

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

eft and right. Country 2024 2023 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual total Year-over-year (y/y) change Annual total China 607 379 718 699 818 921 856 948 1,115 1,238 1,357 1,388 11,044 139.1% 7,938 USA 107 114 129 127 141 131 126 145 125 138 143 160 1,586 107.8% 1,471 Germany 37 42 47 45 44 59 45 40 49 55 56 53 572 81.8% 699 UK 34 22 75 34 39 52 42 26 83 46 57 60 570 119.5% 477 France 32 40 53 38 36 47 29 21 42 ...

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

Car Symposium Bochum 2025: Challenge Leadership Presentations from Leapmotor, Polestar, Mercedes-Benz, and Opel Summary Leapmotor: Smart electric mobility - A leap forward Polestar: Wake up call from the future - Emphasis on pure electric vehicle manufacturer Mercedes-Benz: Innovations & future technologies - technology demonstration programs centered on electrification Opel: Clean, safe, affordable and emotional - Opel is fast charging e-mobilit...

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

hows the transition of domestic sales share of electric vehicles in 12 major countries and 3 Nordic countries. Share of electric vehicles in 12 major countries and 3 Nordic countries *By clicking the button below the graph, only the relevant data will be shown. Norway Sweden China Finland UK Germany France Thailand Korea US Italy Canada Brazil Japan India Copyright (C) MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.   Norway ranked first, dow...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/26

f smart cockpit features like driver monitoring systems and adaptive interfaces, such as context-aware displays that shift focus depending on navigation, weather, or traffic. Europe can be seen as a key driver for the growth of the automotive cockpit module market as premium European OEMs like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi are pushing high-end cockpit innovations, such as OLED displays, 3D interfaces, and AI-powered infotainment. Brand loyalty The...

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

of 4.5 h behind the wheel, drivers must take an uninterrupted break of not less than 45 min. In the future, the aim is to use this rest period for the purpose of fast charging long-haul trucks. According to the “E-Bus Radar 2025” report [2], out of a total fleet of around 35,000 urban buses in Germany, approximately 3000 are battery-electric. For this application case for electrification, the obligatory solution is depot charging, in other w...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/19

he Infiniti Q50 was the first to be equipped with SBW, but this system, including the redundancy, was a rudimentary system using a mechanical redundant backup . From 2022 onwards, Geely Auto and Hella plan to jointly develop SBW solutions, with mass production expected in 2026. In addition, NIO and Germany's ZF are partnering in the development of SBW products. Toyota's bZ4X model was scheduled to be mass-produced and released with Japan's JTEKT ...

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

660,391 668,953 Li Auto sub-total 146,185 381,266 510,445 446,035 630,609 660,391 668,953 BMW Group BMW BMW 674,184 728,550 627,998 587,591 554,232 551,353 584,979 MINI MINI 0 0 69,380 99,949 96,378 89,871 66,391 BMW Group sub-total 674,184 728,550 697,378 687,540 650,610 641,224 651,370 Mercedes-BenzGroup Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz 634,309 597,492 592,788 520,986 532,448 523,709 553,154 Smart Smart 4,672 78,215 52,211 43,183 81,910...

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

n lead time. Mitsubishi Electric Mobility Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric Mobility) Click here to see recent developments. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric) has been supplying for some time factory-installed car navigation systems to Honda and Mitsubishi Motors, as well as to Mercedes-Benz for some of their models. Notably, Mitsubishi Electric was selected as a strategic partner for Volvo's next-generation car infotainment ...

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

hows the transition of domestic sales share of electric vehicles in 12 major countries and 3 Nordic countries. Share of electric vehicles in 12 major countries and 3 Nordic countries *By clicking the button below the graph, only the relevant data will be shown. Norway Sweden China Finland UK Germany France Thailand Korea US Italy Canada Brazil Japan India Copyright (C) MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.   Norway’s share ranked ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/27

trol ECUs, inflators (gas generators), cushions (bags), and cushion base (fabric) is also discussed.   The top three suppliers of airbags in the global market used to be Autoliv of Sweden, the former Takata of Japan (now Joyson Safety Systems of the U.S.), and TRW Automotive of the U.S. (now ZF of Germany). However, following the auto industry’s largest recall ever of former Takata-made inflators (using phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate propel...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/27

ely 750 companies from 37 countries exhibited at this year's event. The number of visitors exceeded 500,000, reflecting a 13% increase over the previous record number of visitors in 2023. The number of exhibitors also increased by 17% compared to 2023, with 57% of the exhibitors coming from outside Germany. As in previous years, the venue was the exhibition hall (Messe München) as well as a free open space using the city center. Exhibit...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/24

obal supply system for electric compressors, DC-DC converters, and bipolar nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. The company’s president, Mr. Koichi Ito, said this at the Japan Mobility Show 2023. A total of over JPY 40 billion will be invested to increase production capacity for each product in Germany, the U.S., China, and Japan in response to the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and other electrified vehicles. President Ito said, "We will a...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/07

hows the transition of domestic sales share of electric vehicles in 12 major countries and 3 Nordic countries. Share of electric vehicles in 12 major countries and 3 Nordic countries *By clicking the button below the graph, only the relevant data will be shown. Norway Sweden China Finland UK Germany France Thailand Korea US Italy Canada Brazil Japan India Copyright (C) MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.   Norway ranked first, dow...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/09/26