compressors are a key technology for electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). Valeo announced that it has sold Spheros GmbH, a German manufacturer of air 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 Symp...

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

rt for customers through connected technologies, such as "Hino Support," which keeps customers' operations running. Furthermore, to address the logistics issue of waiting for cargo and loading and unloading work, the company is currently operating an entry and exit time management system at its own plants and is currently analyzing the problem.   The development of new mobility vehicles is being carried out in local settings, with the support of...

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

hemical, and DaikyoNishikawa). For Mazda, the company is actively engaged in the development of modules for instrument panels, doors, etc., and its group handles most of the company's plastic parts, especially instrument panels, which it supplies 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 sa...

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

tents are filed daily and approximately 20 are approved every day. The company remains at the forefront of areas such as automotive electric drive systems and driver assistance systems. BYD is also continuing to promote its global expansion strategy, and has begun or is pursuing the construction of plants in Thailand, Hungary, Indonesia, Brazil, and other countries. Its Rayong plant in Thailand began operations in 2024. For its electric drive sys...

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

, 5DH) Renault France WHYLOT Drive motors (axial gap motors) (2025~ planned) Geely, Volvo Cars Sweden Skövde Plant Drive motors (planned) Nissan, Infiniti England Sunderland Plant Drive motors (for Leaf and e-NV200)   Reference: e-Axle and drive motor related parts in-house manufacturing plants OEM Country Plant Products Ford England Ford Halewood Transmissions Ltd. Electric power units (drive motor + gearbox) (2024~) Volkswagen...

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Suzuki do not conduct in-house production. One contributing factor for this is that JATCO was formerly the AT manufacturing department at Nissan’s Yoshiwara Plant, and in 2003 the company absorbed all of the AT and CVT manufacturing operations from Mitsubishi Motors’ Kyoto, Mizushima, and Yagi Plants. Among European and U.S. passenger car manufacturers, the U.S.-based Detroit 3 manufacture their products in-house, while other companies recei...

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

exemption from EPA federal regulations) CAFE Corporate Average Fuel Economy (established by EPA) CBG Compressed bio gas CFP Carbon footprint of product CNG Compressed natural gas CO2 Used to refer to all greenhouse gases GHG Greenhouse gas GWh Annual production capacity of cell plants, gigawatt-hours; “/year” omitted IRA Inflation Reduction Act (USA) LLC Limited Liability Company NACS North American Charging Stan...

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

pite having a big import duty on their vehicles. Major luxury and supercar OEMs like Lotus, Maserati, Rolls Royce, Lexus, etc, are finding a growing number of buyers in India.   Most of the OEMs which has a considerable sale in India either have full-scale production facilities or CKD/SKD assembly plants in India. Top players in the Indian market, like BMW and Mercedes, are increasing localization in India.    In 2024, BMW and Mercedes reporte...

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

c E-Tech o Clio o SEAT Cupra Born, el-Born o Skoda Enyaq iV o Superb o Volvo Cars XC40 o VW ID.4 o o ID. Buzz, T-Roc o   Grupo Antolin-Irausa, S.A. ▶ Recent trends Grupo Antolin is one of the leading interior manufacturers worldwide with 111 manufacturing plants and 25 technical-commercial offices in 23 countries. It is headquartered in Burgos, Spain. It designs, develops, produces and supplies products...

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

drives and steering, as well as corresponding vehicle testing facilities, covering a total area of 20,000m². The facilities are equipped with CAE simulation analysis, as well as testing, and calibration capabilities for everything from components to entire vehicles.   The company has established plants in Baoding, Xushui, Tianjin, Yangzhong, etc. to meet customer needs by adopting advanced automation equipment imported from overseas for volume...

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

・Outer circumference is ASLOK finished Cost reduction Seal ring Machining-less injection molding Cost reduction NEV products (drive, battery, thermal management) (TPR)   TPR Co., Ltd. (TPR) is a piston ring manufacturer based in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. The company has two automotive related plants in Japan (Nagano and Gifu Prefectures) and 25 overseas locations (2 in Europe, 5 in the Americas, 11 in China, and 7 in Asia). The company also...

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

low-priced navigation systems with companies outside of Japan. In March 2023, the company announced that it will transfer the R&D function for in-vehicle equipment from Singapore to Japan. While the production of car navigation systems for the consumer markets in Indonesia and China has returned to plants in Japan, the development function of in-vehicle equipment in Singapore was also to be transferred to Japan by the end of March. The aim is to ...

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

The Battery Show North America 2025 – Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo New technologies tempered with localization and market diversification concerns Summary Magna, Eberspaecher, Freudenberg aim to improve costs and safety with new systems Schaeffler, Amprius, FastLion, Lyten show new battery pack and cell technologies Suppliers highlight current and future U.S. plants and operations Battery manufacturers diversify outside of automoti...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/07

ee recent developments. Capital (non-consolidated): JPY 45.0 billionTotal sales (consolidated) JPY 4.8961 trillion (fiscal year ended March 2025) Number of subsidiaries and affiliates (consolidated subsidiaries): Japan 75, overseas 128 Domestic HEV transmission manufacturing sites: Nishio and Ogawa Plants Corporate trends: This is a huge corporate group in which automotive sales make up over 90% of sales; within this group, drive motors do not ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/04

uce variable costs by JPY 250 billion from the FY2024 level, and further reduce variable costs by 10% over the next three years.As of 2025, 2,300 cost reduction measures will have been implemented, with expected savings of JPY 75 billion. Reduction offixed costs Consolidate vehicle and powertrain plants from 17 as of 2025 to 10.Reduce annual global production capacity (excluding China) from 3.5 million units to 2.5 million units, and increase t...

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

uto industry.   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is reportedly considering the possibility of canceling USD 1.1 billion in subsidies awarded under the Domestic Manufacturing Auto Conversion Grants Program in 2024. The grants include subsidies for OEMs such as GM and Stellantis to retrofit their plants for EV production, as well as subsidies for Anovion Technologies (Anovion, LLC), a startup building an artificial graphite plant for lithium-io...

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

d expanding production capacity in the region. As a result, Nihon Plast now has four manufacturing companies in Mexico. Including the above, the company has manufacturing sites in the U.S., Mexico, China, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, and supplies products mainly to the overseas vehicle assembly plants of Honda and Nissan. To reduce costs, in recent years the company has been promoting the in-house sewing of cushions in Indonesia, increasing t...

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

ccording to MarkLines, the Hyundai-Kia Motor Group manufactured 3.406 million vehicles in Korea in 2024, accounting for about 83% of total domestic Korean production. Although the domestic EV production lines are operating erratically due to slowing demand, the Group is increasing production at its plants outside Korea and plans to sequentially launch a number of EV and FCEV models, including the Ioniq 9, the EV3 through EV5, and the PV5.   GM K...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/23

tive Lamp Co., Ltd. (Hubei Koito) was established in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, China. Asia: The company’s production in Asia is carried out by a subsidiary in India and joint ventures in Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Americas: Koito manufactures automotive lighting equipment at four plants in the United States, Mexico and Brazil. Mexico: In September 2014, the company established a plant in Mexico in San Luis Potosi. In September...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/10/20

der the Turnaround ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) procedures established under the Industrial Competitiveness Enhancement Act of Japan had been accepted. This measure was taken in response to the worsening business situation caused by the temporary suspension of operations at the group's main plants, mainly in China, Europe, and Asia, after 2019 due to the impact of COVID-19. In March 2021, Sanden Holdings Corporation (now Sanden Corporatio...

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