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: 2025/06/19

JSAE 2025 in Yokohama: e-Axles, Motors, xEVs Subaru: Strong hybrid, Aisin: FR1 1-motor hybrid transmission, etc. Summary OEM electric powertrains and electrified vehicles (Nissan, Subaru, Yamaha, AIM) Japanese suppliers of ePT (Aisin, Jatco, Meidensha, IJTT, TOP) Electric PTs from US and European suppliers (Valeo, BorgWarner, Schaeffler, Bosch, AAM) Unique electric PT and teardown exhibits (Exedy, Astemo, MarkLines)   The Automotive Engineering ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/16

vehicle sales by model in Japan (January 2024 to April 2025) Reference: MarkLines   Automotive Sales Data Customized aggregation  (Note) The A segment in the Japanese market is for mini-car models. Mini-commercial vehicles are included in the unclassified segment. Minicar EVs include the Nissan Sakura and Mitsubishi eK X EV, and mini-commercial vans include the Nissan Clipper EV and Mitsubishi Minicab EV. Honda released the N-Van e: i...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/02

or a 24kW quick charger handled by Hokkaido Denkisogo was connected to the power supply port.   The "Wallbox KEYWATT 24kW" is a 24kW fast (medium-speed) charger manufactured by IES Synergy (France) that conforms to the CHAdeMO standard (Ver 1.2.5), and is said to be able to fully charge a mini EV (Nissan Sakura) in approximately 47 minutes.   Taiho Industrial Corporation: Battery-swappable EV conversion   Taiho Industrial Corporation (Taiho In...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/08

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

ration as well as the timing of system generation updates will each influence each other, and the future form of cameras will converge. ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF)   ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) supplies high-performance monocular cameras, known as Smart Cameras, equipped with Mobileye's EyeQ chip to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Nissan), Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda), and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (Mitsubishi). The Smart Camera 4.8 uses the EyeQ4-...

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

s is currently underway and is scheduled to be completed around May 2025, after which the products will be ready to ship. Panoramic view of the Wakoh Denken exhibit Wall-mounted normal charger mock-ups   ENECHANGE Ltd.: Charging facility installation service ENECHANGE Ltd. exhibited the Nissan Sakura and normal chargers (both new and old) and introduced its charger installation service. The new normal charger has a slimmer stand, but ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/29

of lithium material, contracts have been concluded with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited of Australia and Controlled Thermal Resources Limited of the U.S.   Renault In January 2022, the company announced a goal of increasing European sales to 100% BEV by 2030. However, the structure of the Renault-Nissan Alliance has changed, and the company has established a BEV business company, Ampere, and launched the Innovation Battery Cell Laboratory, a fa...

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

some major systems in the past, and as a result of placing orders with specialized suppliers within the keiretsu group (affiliated companies), the traditional ordering situation remains keiretsu-colored. In HVAC, this is illustrated by orders from Toyota → Denso and Toyota Industries Corporation, Nissan → former Calsonic Kansei (now Highly Marelli), Honda → former Keihin Corporation (now Mahle Japan Ltd.), Mazda → Japan Climate Systems Co...

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

ation services at the time) for Japanese automakers. Table 3. History of connected car navigation systems Service name Service provider Service start date Means of communication MONET Toyota April 1998 Cell phone connection Internavi Honda July 1998 Built-in communication modem Compass Link Nissan July 1998 Cell phone connection G-Book Toyota October 2002 Built-in communication modem OnStar (USA) GM 1996 Built-in communication modem ...

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

elopment items include the development of an airbag + seatbelt system in collaboration with Ashimori Industry, as well as occupant protection systems for autonomous driving. The company is a key supplier to Toyota, Subaru, and Daihatsu, and delivers products to other Japanese automakers, except for Nissan (excluding OEM minicars), but through the aforementioned collaboration with Ashimori Industry, the company expects to expand sales to Ashimori'...

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

ll trend of drive motors II. Technology trends in drive motors III. Matrix of major motor suppliers and their OEM customers IV. Sales and strategies of major drive motor suppliers V. Drive motor suppliers by vehicle model Toyota in-house BluE Nexus Denso Aisin Honda in-house Hitachi Astemo Nissan in-house Meidensha Toshiba Sawafuji Electric Mitsubishi Electric Nidec Yaskawa Electric TOP Sinfonia Technology Mitsuba JATCO Dynax Cl...

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

nality and performance of electric steering systems in the future. One example of advanced steering development that attracted significant attention as an element of next generation autonomous driving technology is the steer-by-wire system made by KYB Corporation, which was adopted for the 2014 V37 Nissan Skyline hybrid engine model (VQ37VHR), the world’s first production model to use this technology. This same model attracted industry attentio...

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

Nissan: New business plan "The Arc," cutting cost of next-generation EVs by 30% Mitsubishi rolls out new models such as Triton from ASEAN to global markets Summary Nissan: Announced new business plan "The Arc” "The Arc" mid-term initiatives (FY2024 - FY2026) "The Arc" mid- to long-term initiatives (- FY2030) Nissan's business performance: Net sales of JPY 13.6 trillion (up 7.2%) and operating income of JPY 600 billion (up 5.5%) are projected fo...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/28

e, and helps to keep the vehicle weight down. Conversely, with air cooling, the cooling effect is not constant because it is affected by the surrounding temperature. Typical examples of widely used air cooling battery thermal management can be found in low-priced small mobility vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf, the SAIC-GM-Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, and the Citroen Ami.   Next is water cooling (liquid cooling), and like engine cooling methods...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/16

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

on). (For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022) Originally a purely Japanese company that has been manufacturing auto parts since 1916, the company is now part of the French Valeo Group (investment share 61.16%, as of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022). In the past, the relationship with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (Nissan) was strong, but until May 2019, Toyota was the second largest shareholder after Valeo, so Nissan (sales share for the ...

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

batteries, with the goal of commercialization in 2026. For the procurement of lithium material, contracts have been concluded with Vulcan Energy Resources Limited of Australia and Controlled Thermal Resources Limited of the U.S.   Renault When the 2021 EV Strategy was announced, the entire Renault-Nissan alliance would produce 1 million BEVs by 2030, the Renault brand would make 65% of its European sales electrified by 2025, and up to 90% of its...

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

38 89 113 183 107 122 172 105 150 125 VW Group 56 62 75 102 34 39 62 48 60 71 68 71 74 Geely 54 52 62 79 26 40 50 48 49 61 58 63 70 GAC Group 30 30 29 30 8 30 40 41 46 48 48 47 54 Stellantis 35 38 38 50 25 30 46 34 43 51 35 40 48 GM Group 59 64 87 97 15 23 28 33 34 44 46 50 47 Renault・Nissan 28 22 24 40 17 18 26 18 17 23 23 23 36 Hyundai-Kia 35 31 33 34 15 25 36 32 34 37 38 40 36 Mercedes-Benz Group 25 22 26 36 17 22 33 24 26 30...

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