5) was held at the Tokyo Big Sight convention and exhibition center.   According to an announcement by the organizer, RX Japan Co., Ltd. (RX Japan), the total number of visitors for the entire Automotive World exhibition (3-day total), including concurrent NEPCON (Electronics R&D and Manufacturing Technology Expo), Factory Innovation Week, and Smart Logistics Expo events, was 85,430, up from 77,744 last year.   This report will introduce the ex...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/27

ngsu Province, on December 5-6, 2024. The conference included one exclusive Executive Summit, one Main Theme Forum, and three Professional Forums, where participants exchanged views on the development of the automotive semiconductor ecosystem, market environment analysis, competition and alliances, technology innovation, and more.   This report introduces some of the content of the presentations that were made at the Main Theme Forum, Profession...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/18

bH. The symposium was held in Berlin, Germany. The theme was “Navigating the transition towards sustainable mobility”. The event (December 3 - 4, 2024) began with keynote presentations in the plenary, followed in parallel by Deep Dive sessions in six venues by experts in the field on the latest technological developments in Electric Powertrain, Electric Motors, Thermal Management, Fuel Cells, etc. This time, a start-up area was set up in the ...

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

5) was held at the Tokyo Big Sight convention and exhibition center.   According to an announcement by the organizer, RX Japan Co., Ltd. (RX Japan), the total number of visitors for the entire Automotive World exhibition (3-day total), including concurrent NEPCON (Electronics R&D and Manufacturing Technology Expo), Factory Innovation Week, and Smart Logistics Expo events, was 85,430, up from 77,744 last year.   This report introduces the exhibi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/07

l 3 and above.   In March 2021, Honda announced the world's first vehicle equipped with a Level 3 highway system, but it was limited to 100 units under corporate lease contracts and was never actually sold commercially. Since then, Honda has not released any additional models equipped with Level 3 technology, and no other companies have released vehicles equipped with Level 3 systems. It is too early to say at this point whether there is no dema...

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

Japan Mobility Show Bizweek / CEATEC 2024: Electrification Technologies Hydrogen utilization, electrified vehicles, motors, batteries, charging related exhibits Summary FCV, Hydrogen utilization: Honda, Toyota BEV, PHEV: Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, Yamaha, Isuzu, Toyota Small mobility: Honda, Suzuki, Nishikawa Seiki Energy storage system utilizing electric vehicle batteries: Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan Electric powertrain-related technologies: Vale...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/11/14

for navigating the future changes in the EV market" and featured presentations and panel discussions on topics such as trends in the EV market and mobility, strategies for the Japanese market, and strategies for increasing the value of EVs. The afternoon session was titled "The forefront of diverse technologies and initiatives for enhancing the value of EVs" and featured presentations on EV technical challenges and development directions, EV ther...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/11/01

Smart Energy Week Autumn: Electrification Technologies EVs, hydrogen, chargers, battery-related products, and more Summary Electric vehicles and drive systems: Mitsubishi Motors, Youon, Enoah, Mitsui E&S Power Systems Hydrogen, fuel cell vehicle-related: Mitsui E&S Power Systems, Nitto Kohki, Shikoku Research Institute Fast and normal chargers: Daihen, EN Plus, Kawamura Electric, Micro-Star International (MSI), Nitto Kogyo Charging related techno...

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

Automotive World 2024 Autumn: Electrification-related Technologies Electrified vehicles, electric powertrains, power electronics-related, charging-related, etc. Summary Electrified vehicles, electric powertrains: China BEVs, Yamada Manufacturing, HOSO Technology, Shinano Kenshi e-Axle components: Elantas, JFE Precision, Sado Precision, Taiyo Kogyo, INAC Power electronics-related: Panatronic Japan, AEM Components, Inabata & Co. Charging related: N...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/09/30

TECHNO-FRONTIER 2024: Electric Vehicle Technologies BEV teardown exhibit, motors, power devices and related components Summary Actual BEVs on display: Xiaomi SU7, BYD Seal, Hyundai Ioniq 5 N BEV teardown exhibit: Geely Zeekr 007, Citroen Ami Motors: EXEDY, Fukuda (ATE), IE5 Motor Project (Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, ABB, Yaskawa Electric), Nidec Motor parts: Easy-Win, Zhejiang Grandwall, Daido Steel, Next Core Technologies, Inac Power devices: ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/27

TECHNO-FRONTIER 2024: Next-generation e-Axle, EV Parts, Weight Reduction In-wheel motors, motor cores, permanent magnets, EPB gear units, etc. Summary Next-generation e-Axles, next-generation motors EV motor - core material EV motor - Permanent magnets EV components: High space factor coils, drawn bus bars, electromagnetic shielding, heat dissipation plating Small motor parts: Deep-draw motor cases, plastic gears for automobiles Weight reduction:...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/15

by acquiring two of Aisin Corporation's overseas subsidiaries in Southeast Asia. There are also moves toward business restructuring including Tachi-S’s aim to improve the profitability of unprofitable businesses and TS Tech improving the efficiency of its production system and level of production technology.   Amidst the activities, including overseas expansion, of Japanese seat suppliers, Namba Press Works Co., Ltd. (Kurashiki city, Okayama P...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/01

BYD's e-Platform 3.0 Evo Global launch of e-Platform 3.0 Evo and Sealion 07 EV summary Summary 12-in-1 Intelligent electric drive technology High-efficiency heat pump technology for a wide range of temperatures Full-spectrum intelligent fast charging technology Vehicle safety structure technologies Intelligent motion control technology Comparison of e-Platform 3.0 and e-Platform 3.0 Evo (Reference) Sealion 07 EV equipped with e-Platform 3.0...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/16

joint venture with Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems Co., Ltd. and acquisition of a subsidiary of the joint venture. Faurecia: Joint venture with BYD expanded with the opening of its seventh plant and the construction of a seat assembly plant in Thailand. Magna: Acquisition of Chongqing Honglizhixin Technology Development Group Co., Ltd. Establishment of joint venture with Guangdong Huatie Tongda High-Speed Railway Equipment Corporation In recen...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/04

Toyota Business Fair 2024: EV Technologies, Carbon Neutrality Next-generation lithium-ion batteries, gigacasting, recycling, upcycling Summary Next Generation Lithium-ion Batteries: Toyota Motor Corporation special exhibit Gigacast: Toyota Motor Corporation special exhibit Materials and component manufacturing technologies that contribute to carbon neutrality CO2 capture and recovery technologies that contribute to carbon neutrality Recycling-rel...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/06/07

ng time at -10°C using a 90kW fast charger has been shortened by approximately 25 minutes (when charging from SOC 10 to 80%). The concept has already been adopted in the Toyota bZ3 battery electric compact sedan, an BEV jointly developed by Toyota, BYD Auto and FAW Toyota through the BYD Toyota EV Technology (BTET) joint venture, and Toyota is now working to bring this optimal technology closer to the global market.   To review the trends in th...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/23

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

ing Smart Energy Week Spring and the concurrently held GX Management Week, was 69,261 (3-day total), up from 65,196 last year and even more than the 66,576 visitors in 2019 before the COVID pandemic, giving the impression that the bustle had returned to the event.   This report, as Electrification Technologies (Part 1), introduces FCVs (fuel cell vehicles), FC units, tanks, and hydrogen-related product exhibits at the H2 & FC EXPO Spring 2024, 2...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/01

t cockpits and smart driving, but also smart vehicles integrating electrification with intelligence.   Furthermore, he emphasized that BYD's corporate culture is an engineering culture, and introduced a team of engineers representing each research field. BYD's strong R&D capabilities and spirit of technological innovation in the field of integrated vehicle intelligence became clear.  This report is a brief summary of the event.   Related Repor...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/03/08

Automotive World 2024: Electrification Technologies (3) V2X, Charging 15th EV Japan EV, HV & FCV Technology Expo, 16th Int’l Automotive Electronics Technology Expo Summary V2X, standard chargers, charging-related products (Panasonic, BYD, Tokai Electronics, Infineon, Jonhon, PXP) Battery related technologies (Webasto Thermo & Comfort, BorgWarner, FTS, Cognex) Measurement instruments for motor processes (ECG Kokusai, Marposs, Cognex, Shimadzu In...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/03/07