unced weakness in Europe, partially offset by resilience in North America and Asia-Pacific.Renault‐Nissan‐MitsubishiRNM’s global output fell by around 1.2% YoY in Q1 2026, continuing an unbroken trend of quarterly declines since Q1 2024. Nissan (-6.9% YoY) led the downturn this quarter in the wake of the new higher US tariffs, impacting exports from Mexico and Japan, causing assembly to drop 15% and 6.3% in those two countries. Moreover, th...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2026/04/30

MWC™ Barcelona, organized by © GSM Association; Photos: Copyright © MarkLines Co., Ltd. All rights reserved)   Instead of traditional wings or spoilers, airflow is managed through sculpted surfaces, non-rotating magnetic wheel covers that reduce drag and cool the brakes, and an active rear wake control system that uses micro-perforations to manage turbulence without disrupting the car's clean design.   Beyond the technology, the Vision ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2026/04/23

Car Symposium Bochum 2025: Challenge Leadership Presentations from Leapmotor, Polestar, Mercedes-Benz, and Opel Summary Leapmotor: Smart electric mobility - A leap forward Polestar: Wake up call from the future - Emphasis on pure electric vehicle manufacturer Mercedes-Benz: Innovations & future technologies - technology demonstration programs centered on electrification Opel: Clean, safe, affordable and emotional - Opel is fast charging e-mobilit...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/11/28

chain challenges, including rare earth constraints for electric vehicle (EV) parts and continuing geopolitical tensions, may also continue to weigh on urban consumer confidence.   India's Minister of Commerce and Industry said on June 9 that China's export restrictions on rare earth magnets are a "wake-up call" and could impact key industries such as autos and consumer goods. The Indian government is addressing the issue through diplomatic dialo...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/25

uto Qianji   "SenseAuto Qianji" is a system that supports the in-vehicle OS. It combines the MoE (Mixture of Experts) multi-modal model, human-like memory framework technology, and agent framework technology to provide users with functions such as "multi-turn and multi-role conversation without wake-up," "personalized advice based on memory," and "active detection of emotions and needs" in the cockpit. Furthermore, all of these functions are ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/05/28

stood at 89 mn units/year, in line with the 2024 full-year result. Market volumes recorded a modest result of 2% growth year-on-year (YoY), with 6.8 mn units sold. The key markets of US, China, and Western Europe saw varying results in the first month of 2025. In the US, the market improved in the wake of economic uncertainty revolving around potential Trump tariffs. In China, sales saw a slight decline — the extension of the scrapping subsidi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/21

ds and data to vehicles to deliver an intelligent and thoughtful mobility experience. The main features are as follows. Features Details Desktop fusion Smartphone applications and local applications on the in-vehicle system are integrated into a single interface, allowing users to use a voice wake word defined by the OEM. Other applications Mobile applications such as map navigation, audio, video, and games can be enjoyed in the car. S...

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

ing window, optimal portrait screen, etc. Emotional intelligence The in-vehicle AI system NOMI is evolving in three directions: Human-Like Interactions, Versatile Assistant, and Emotional Companion. - NOMI GPT: Defines a human-vehicle interaction paradigm for generative AI, and supports Free of Wake Words, Talk Simultaneously or Consecutively, and one-phase multi-commands (Dozens of Commands in One Shot). NOMI Flexible Windows, a generative ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/09/10

  The in-vehicle voice system uses a voice assistant that Xiaomi has widely applied to smartphones, TVs, and other consumer electronics products. Seven years of research and development have been spent on these voice assistants, which already have 117 million active users per month and 208 million wake words (special words or phrases that tell a voice assistant that a command is about to be spoken) called out daily. Based on this, a function to ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/02

nded 2023 on a strong note. In December, the selling rate reached 5.18 million units/year and sales expanded by 5.5% YoY. However, sales of Mini Vehicles (which account for nearly 40% of total Light Vehicle sales) declined by 3.5% YoY, as Daihatsu has halted shipments of all of its vehicles, in the wake of its scandal over the safety test. In full-year 2023, Japan’s total LV sales increased by almost 14%, thanks to the improved supply of semico...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/01/18

cted to increase to 85.3 million units in 2023 and 91.8 million units in 2024, supported by an improvement in vehicle supply. However, the forecast for both years has been revised downwards by more than 700,000 vehicles from the previous forecast, due to growing concerns of an economic stall in the wake of rising global inflation, interest rates and energy prices. -By country, China's forecast for 2022 has been revised upwards to over 27 million ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/10/28

hi-Kikai Industry     Daihatsu Move Move Custom Subaru Stella LA150S/160S LA150/160 2021 Akashi-Kikai Industry - - Daihatsu Move Canbus LA800S/LA810S 2021 Akashi-Kikai Industry - - Daihatsu Thor Toyota Roomy Subaru Justy M9#0S M900A/910A M900F/M910F 2021 Akashi-Kikai Industry - - Daihatsu Wake Toyota Pixis Mega Hijet Caddie LA700S/710S LA700A/710A LA700V/710V 2021 Daihatsu Akashi-Kikai Industry - -   European and American OEMs: Euro...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/12/22

e automotive market. However, the chip supply has not yet greatly improved, the automobile enterprises’ ability to build and store inventory will significantly drop this month, which is not conducive to the growth in production and sales of the automotive market in October.CPCA stated that in the wake of the recent power reduction in various regions which has become the focus on social media, some people are worried that the rapid growth of ele...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/10/14

erent organisations together to ensure that voice-based smart devices are created in an interoperable manner. Brands integrating with Alexa Alexa Custom Assistant (Car HMI Europe 2021, organized by we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH/Slides: Amazon Alexa Auto)   How does it work?   There is a wake word engine, that recognizes the different wake words of Alexa or the OEM branded assistant. Based on the intent, e.g. what is the weather, eithe...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/09/10

ndustries Daihatsu Taft LA900S / 910S 2020 Koito Mfg. --- Koito Mfg. Daihatsu TanTo  / Custom Subaru Chiffon LA650S / 660S LA650F / 660F 2020 Koito Mfg. --- Koito Mfg. Daihatsu Thor Toyota Roomy Subaru Justy M9#0S M900A / 910A M900F / M910F 2020 Koito Mfg. --- --- Koito Mfg. Daihatsu Wake Toyota Pixis Mega LA700S / 710S LA700A / 710A 2020 Koito Mfg. --- ---   Created from publicly available company information, surveys, etc. ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/04/09

715/2007 was issued, saw technical necessities – also in terms of a thermal window – in the implementation of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system in the same way that the BMVI, which is responsible today, has manifested these necessities in a specification for retrofit solutions. Thus, in the wake of the rulings in Brussels, the question of how the legislator can avoid uncertainties in the interpretation of specifications, both in industry ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/03/29

s for poor performance were lack of consumer sentiment, an increase in purchasing costs, volatile fuel prices, tight liquidity, BS-VI norms and the impact of Covid-19. Covid-19 pushed sales to a historical low in the middle of the year. The government announced several stimuli for industries in the wake of Covid-19 with the expectation of boosting the automotive industry.   This year also witnessed the emergence of new OEMs, and connected and el...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/03/15

-- --- Daihatsu Move Move Custom Subaru Stella LA150S/160S LA150/160 2018 Daihatsu Akashi-Kikai Industry --- --- Daihatsu Move Canbus LA800S/LA810S 2018 Daihatsu Akashi-Kikai Industry --- --- Daihatsu Thor Toyota Roomy Subaru Justy M9#0S M900A/910A M900F/M910F 2017 Aisin AW --- --- Daihatsu Wake Toyota Pixis Mega LA700S/710S LA700A/710A 2020 Daihatsu Akashi-Kikai Industry --- ---   European and American OEMs: Europe and Americas marke...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/11/26

LA350F / 360F Daihatsu Move Canbus LA800S / LA810S 2020 - - - - Nippon Seiki Daihatsu TanTo / Custom Subaru Chiffon LA650S / 660S LA650F / 660F 2020 - - - - Nippon Seiki Daihatsu Thor Toyota Roomy / Tank Subaru Justy M9#0S M900A / 910A M900F / M910F 2017 - - - Kojima Industries - Daihatsu Wake Toyota Pixis Mega LA700S / 710S LA700A / 710A 2020 - - - - Nippon Seiki ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/10/28

ee major trends. The first is downsizing combined with charging and possibly 48-V hybridization so long as the ICE remains the dominant source of propulsion.   The second is an extensively simplified engine for plug-in hybrids. Incidentally, full hybrids will regrettably lose significance in the wake of EU emissions regulations favoring plug-in hybrids in his opinion. The third trend is toward gasoline engines with extremely high efficiency ra...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/09/18