e in electrolytic corrosion-resistant insulated bearings.   Silicon nitride ceramic balls are lightweight and have excellent wear and corrosion resistance, making them suitable for use in aircraft, machine tools, and diesel engines (common rail). Being insulators, they are also used in electrified vehicle motors, which require resistance to electrolytic corrosion.   The product on display, which was undergoing durability evaluation, was an oxid...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/12/17

Analysis Report: Cockpit Module (Japanese Market) Display transformation and switch function evolution List of Suppliers I. Introduction II. Japanese car cockpit trends to date III. Trends in cockpits in Japanese passenger cars IV. Future HMI trends V. Vehicles for the Chinese Market VI. Trends in new HMI technologies VII. Overview of major cockpit component suppliers (Japanese alphabetical order) VIII. Cockpit component suppliers and their custo...

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

uch as speed, traffic signs, navigation instructions and information provided by advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Mainstream and low segment cars are still mainly equipped with combiner-type HUDs, whereas higher segment and premium cars come with higher quality windshield-type HUDs. First vehicles with so called Augmented Reality HUDs, which can significantly enhance the driver’s situational awareness, entered the market as well. To a...

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

Koyo Steering Systems Co., Ltd. Bosch HUAYU Steering Systems Co., Ltd. Zhejiang Shibao Co., Ltd. NASN Intelligent Tech (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. HYCET Technology Co., Ltd. Analysis Report: Power Steering (Japanese Market)   Analysis Report: Power Steering (U.S. and European Markets)   Among the key vehicle operations of “go, turn, and stop”, the steering mechanism is an important product that affects steering performance. Looking back at the ...

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

well. Source: Created by MarkLines   In Japan, the national consumption tax hike introduced in April 2014 was a major turning point. Due to a drop in sales volume following the rush to buy before the tax increase, the number of units sold has fallen significantly since 2014, with mini-vehicles and compact cars being particularly affected. In addition, with the raising of the mini-vehicle tax from JPY 7,200 to JPY 10,800 per year in ...

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

Analysis Report: Lighting (Japanese Market) Development aimed at improving ADB performance and application of communication lamps List of Lighting Suppliers Introduction I. Lighting Market Overview Ⅱ. Lighting Development Trends Ⅲ. Business Trends of Major Lighting Suppliers (Japanese companies) IV. List of Lighting Suppliers and Their Customers (For models produced in Japan, and some models manufactured outside of but sold in Japan) V. List...

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

uipment by Make and Model VI. Sales Figures of Major Lighting Suppliers Marelli Automotive Lighting Hella (Forvia) Valeo OPmobility ZKW Group Lighting (Japanese Market)   Automotive lighting is a group of products that have both a function as a safety component required by law to be installed in vehicles traveling on public roads and a decorative feature that constitutes the exterior design that determines the popularity of a model.   This re...

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

JSAE 2025 in Nagoya: Fuel cells, high-performance components Technologies contributing to a mobility society: electrification, safety and security Summary Hydrogen FCV (fuel cell vehicle) related technologies (Hino, Toyoda Gosei, Aisan Industry) High-performance seat-related technologies (Toyota Boshoku, NHK Spring, Tachi-S) High-performance metal-based component technology (Chuo Spring, Fine Sinter, Ito Kinzoku Kogyo) Thermal management technolo...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/08/14

y OEMs (Hino, Isuzu, Nissan, Honda)   The adoption of domain ECUs (electronic control units) by European OEMs is expected to accelerate ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) deployment beyond Level 2+. Demonstration tests of Level 4 AD (Autonomous Driving) are currently underway for commercial vehicles, but the challenge is to accumulate mileage to achieve a successful track record.   At the Automotive Engineering Exposition 2025 sponsored ...

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

tions JASPAR: Promoting standardization in areas of cooperation in the automotive industry in 8 working groups (WGs) PlaxidityX: Providing solutions in automotive cybersecurity Bosch: More people working together to create SDV experiences with digital.auto   The trend toward SDVs (software-defined vehicles) is steadily advancing, and development environments and tools for applications that link in-vehicle ECUs (HPC/domain ECUs) and the cloud, wh...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/08/01

Toyota China Strategy and Progress Integration of locally-led product development with intelligent technology Summary Research and development by Toyota China Four major local development policies GAC Toyota's vehicle development technology path and current approach to AI-equipped products Partnerships with Huawei, Momenta, and Xiaomi bZ7  Toyota China (Toyota Motor (China) Investment Co., Ltd.) is accelerating its localization and inte...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/07/22

China’s Emerging EV Automakers: Leapmotor, Li Auto, XPeng Leapmotor’s partnership with FAW, Li Auto’s first BEV, XPeng-developed in-vehicle semiconductors Summary Sales volume by model - January to May 2025 Leapmotor: Developing its architecture in-house, expanding international markets with Stellantis Li Auto: First BEV model equipped with the VLA(Vision-Language-Action model) autonomous driving architecture XPeng: Developing E/E architect...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/07/14

hibition hall (Toyo Denki)       Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd.: GX CONCEPT, fuel cell separator   The "GX CONCEPT" was exhibited by Toyota Auto Body Co., Ltd. (Toyota Auto Body) to showcase the expansion of technologies that are contributing to GX (Green Transformation). It is an FCV (Fuel Cell Vehicle) with a body made from recycled waste materials and is equipped with a fuel cell (FC) stack that uses a carbon resin separator that Toyota Aut...

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

edien Wiesbaden GmbH is one of the world's leading scientific and technical publishers. It mainly publishes technical journals and books for engineers and social scientists, in addition to holding various technical events. About Automotive Technology Magazine ATZ   Motorwagen-Zeitschrift (Motored Vehicles Magazine) was founded in 1898 as an automotive technical magazine. From 1929, the name of the magazine was changed to "ATZ (=Automobiltechnis...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/10

y the British event provider InLinum, was held in Frankfurt am Main on April 8th and 9th 2025.   The acronym ICA stands for Innovative, Connected, and Autonomous. The summit examined state-of-the-art approaches, legal frameworks and development/validation processes in the field of software-defined vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. More than 200 participants had the opportunity to listen to 16 presentations from high-ranking repres...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/16

Commercial Vehicle Level 4 Automated Driving - Current Status and Prospects Presentations from ReVision Commercial Vehicle & Logistics Summit 2025 Summary Contribution as a Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer to the Transformation of the Logistics Industry (Isuzu) Two advanced technologies in the commercial vehicle and logistics industries (Macnica) The Challenge of Maintaining and Securing Public Transportation in Future (Kawasaki City) Challenges T...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/18

SDV Europe 2024: Progressing software-defined vehicles Coding the future of mobility - Presentations by CARIAD, Volvo Cars, and NIO Summary CARIAD: Challenges and learning for designing SDVs- developing and maintaining one of the world’s largest care cloud backends at the Volkswagen Group Volvo Cars: The changes that the evolution of SDVs brings for the automotive industry NIO: Evolving the cockpit - Leveraging AI and real-time updates in softw...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/20

opment of the Semiconductor Ecosystem”. These include the current situation and development needs of the automotive semiconductor industry (FAW), development trends of electric drive systems and power semiconductors (Dongfeng), and development trends of the semiconductor ecosystem for intelligent vehicles (Chery).   Related reports:Chinese Market Q4 2024 (Jan. 2025)TECHNO-FRONTIER 2024: Electric Vehicle Technologies (Aug. 2024)Automotive World...

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

ecosystem can be better built through open source. Mr. Bin CAO, General Manager of Software Architecture Engineering at Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. (Changan Automobile), introduced the company's thoughts on the transformation path of automotive intelligence in the context of SDVs (software defined vehicles).   This report summarizes presentations by CAAM and Changan Automobile.     Related Reports: Global Intelligent Vehicle Summit 2024: AI C...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/08

SAE China 2024: Smart Cars BYD, Chery Automobile, Dongfeng Motor Summary BYD: Intelligent chassis technology evolution and the search for integration Chery Automobile: Building a world-class high-end smart driving system for millions of vehicles Dongfeng Motor: AI-Driven Differentiated Tech-Innovation SAECCE 2024 AI Primary Session   The 31st China Society of Automotive Engineers Congress and Exhibition (SAECCE 2024) was held in Chongqi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/01/07