orner radar has a FOV of 150° × 30° and a detection range of 210/36m. Figure 1: Bosch front radar: Radar 6th generation (Source: Bosch) Figure 2: Bosch front radar Premium: Radar Premium 5th generation (Source: Bosch)   Continental Continental AG’s main customers are Toyota, Subaru, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Mazda. The standard long-range product is the ARS510, which has been in use since 2022, and its successor is the ARS620. The A...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/16

n Motor Co., Ltd. (Nissan), Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda), and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Mitsubishi). The Smart Camera 4.8 uses the EyeQ4-Mid with 1.7 megapixels to achieve an FOV of 100° and a vehicle recognition distance of 170m. Tri-cam, the high-performance trinocular camera supplied to Nissan, uses the EyeQ4-High and has an FOV of 28° / 52° / 150°. Figures 1 and 2: ZF Tri-cam (Source: ZF)     The next generation Smart ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/09

Next-generation EVs to be launched in 2027 with 30% lower costs. For batteries, NMC (nickel-manganese-cobalt) technology will be advanced to improve energy density by 50%, LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries will be produced in Japan to reduce cost by 30% compared to the cost of batteries in the Sakura model, and all-solid-state batteries will be on the market in 2028. Regarding battery procurement, no major developments have surfaced apart f...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/18

Guanajuato state and create 450 new jobs. This is the fourth expansion of the Silao plant, which will employ more than 2,200 people once the expansion is complete. Denso supplies components such as air conditioning systems, radiators, alternators, and wiper systems to Toyota, Ford, GM, Stellantis, Nissan, and Volkswagen from the plant.   Highly Marelli Japan Corporation (formerly Calsonic Kansei Corporation) [Company and Business Overview] Th...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/10

, changing the company name to JVCKenwood Corporation in 2011. The Kenwood division manufactures and sells car audio, home audio, and radio equipment, in addition to car navigation equipment. The car navigation business is mainly in the aftermarket, but the company's OEM business includes supplying Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Subaru, Mitsubishi Motors, Suzuki, and Daihatsu with products for installation as dealer options. The company manufactures the A...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/03

teon Corporation: As the former components division of Ford, it still has business with Mazda. Continental AG: Products equipped on some models for Suzuki. Veoneer Inc.: The electronics division of Autoliv was spun off to form Veoneer. The company delivers its products to Mitsubishi Motors, Suzuki, Nissan, and Mazda.   Inflators Daicel Corporation The company was established in September 1919 as Dainippon Celluloid Co., Ltd. by a joint venture...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/09/12

hama and Tochigi plants in Japan and its Decherd (TN) plant in the U.S., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is expanding its use of Meidensha Corporation products, which were previously used by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, for the generator for Nissan’s second-generation e-POWER and the drive motor for the Sakura. It has also adopted a Robert Bosch GmbH drive motor for the X-Trail’s e-POWER system.   Since e-Axle motors for BEVs have fewer vehicle- an...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/22

anged to an electronic type that produces the same effect with the practical application of steer-by-wire.   Based on these characteristics, design considerations may vary by OEM. For example, in looking at the front-engine rear-wheel drive layout of the luxury cars and sports models of Toyota and Nissan, one can see that Toyota is using the R-EPS made by JTEKT, whereas Nissan is using the HPS or EHPS made by Hitachi Astemo. Toyota’s decision ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/08

easily produced and supplied locally, mainly by Japanese suppliers. Excluding suppliers of catalyst substrates and coating, the major Japanese suppliers of exhaust systems include suppliers such as Futaba and Sango for the Toyota group, Marelli Corporation (formerly Calsonic Kansei Corporation) for Nissan, and Yutaka Giken and Sankei Giken for Honda. Because larger parts are often included as exhaust system components, the manufacturing facilitie...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/30

E-Axles and motor technologies such as EESM (magnet-free motors) explained Automotive World 2024 Technical Conference: Nissan, Vitesco Summary Latest Technology Trends in E-axle (Vitesco Technologies Japan) Motor development to reduce rare earth usage (Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.)   Special technical conference sessions were held (January 24-26, 2024) in conjunction with the exhibitions at Automotive World 2024 at the Tokyo Big Sight international ex...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/03

nese OEMs. The company is the dominant supplier of lighting systems to Toyota, its largest shareholder, as well as to Daihatsu, Subaru, and Suzuki, but its business with Honda and Mazda, where Stanley is strong, is limited to certain models. In the past, Koito was positioned as a second supplier to Nissan, for which Ichikoh had a high market share, and received orders mainly for the D segment and above, but in recent years, the company has been e...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/02/29

a Plant in 2024, pilot trials of full-size laminated cells will begin, and mass production is targeted for 2028, as initially announced. At present, the company is testing a 100mm square 3-5Ah class laminated cell in the lab. During the past year, BEVs launched by Nissan are the Ariya globally, the Sakura in Japan, the Townstar BEV (Renault Kangoo sibling) in Europe, and the Venucia D60EV PLUS in China. As for PHEVs, Nissan introduced the Venucia...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/11/01

sales growth is slowing down, the gap is widening. In third place is the VW Group, followed by Geely, which is also steadily increasing its sales, in fourth place. In September, although the volume was low, the Renault/Nissan Group and Honda showed a trend of rapid sales volume growth. For Renault/Nissan, the increase in sales of the Nissan Sakura in Japan and the Dacia Spring Electric in France are noteworthy, while for Honda, the increase in s...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/10/25

Guanajuato state and create 450 new jobs. This is the fourth expansion of the Silao plant, which will employ more than 2,200 people once the expansion is complete. Denso supplies components such as air conditioning systems, radiators, alternators, and wiper systems to Toyota, Ford, GM, Stellantis, Nissan, and Volkswagen from the plant.   Highly Marelli Japan Corporation (formerly Calsonic Kansei Corporation) [Company and Business Overview] Th...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/10/19

Automotive World Autumn 2023: Electrification-related Technologies Electric powertrain, fuel cells, batteries, EV chargers, power electronics Summary Automotive World Keynote Session (Nissan, Mazda) Small electric vehicles (Yamada Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Yamaha Motor Engineering Co., Ltd.) Fuel cells and batteries (Toyota Energy Solutions, Hitachi Zosen, noco-noco, Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan, Seidensha Electronics) V2X, fast/regular ch...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/10/04

ons. In response to the ADR failure, Marelli moved to simplified rehabilitation proceedings, and the proposed rehabilitation plan was approved by the Tokyo District Court in August 2022 with the consent of creditors and the approval of the Tokyo District Court. The company produces various ECUs for Nissan, but for airbag ECUs Marelli trails behinds Bosch of Germany in the supply of products to Nissan. Currently, Marelli continues to maintain airb...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/09/21

nuary to June 2023 fell 24.5% from 474,000 units in the previous year to 358,000 units. One of the reasons for this is the rapid expansion of local brand NEV sales, which now account for 25% of the Chinese market, while non-NEV vehicles sold by joint ventures of non-Chinese manufacturers, including Nissan, are losing market share (lower left figure). Nissan will launch two NEV models in July 2023 (lower right figure), and after further discussion...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/08/18

hama and Tochigi plants in Japan and its Decherd (TN) plant in the U.S., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. is expanding its use of Meidensha Corporation products, which were previously used by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, for the generator for Nissan’s second-generation e-POWER and the drive motor for the Sakura. It has also adopted a Robert Bosch GmbH drive motor for the X-Trail’s e-POWER system.   Since e-Axle motors for BEVs have fewer vehicle- an...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/08/02

uced and supplied locally, mainly by Japanese suppliers. Excluding suppliers of catalyst substrates and coating, the major Japanese suppliers of exhaust systems include suppliers such as Futaba Industrial and Sango for the Toyota group, Marelli Corporation (formerly Calsonic Kansei Corporation) for Nissan, and Yutaka Giken and Sankei Giken for Honda. Because larger parts are often included as exhaust system components, the manufacturing facilitie...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/07/27

JSAE 2023 in Yokohama: Battery Technologies Longer life storage batteries, safety components, recycling, etc. Summary Battery storage systems for electrified vehicles (Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Honda) Recycling and reuse of storage batteries for electric vehicles (Nissan, 4R Energy, JVC Kenwood, Horiba) Battery modules (WAE, Toshiba, Nissan ARC) Resin battery packs (Asahi Kasei, Mitsubishi Chemical, DaikyoNishikawa) Battery cell case (Aisan Industry...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/07/04