on September 29 that it had issued orders for temporary suspension of registrations for new vehicles to its suppliers. This action was taken due to discovery by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of deficiencies in the final vehicle inspection process in six plants across Japan. According to the report by the Ministry, checks were being conducted by technicians who lacked the correct internal certification. The s...

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on September 29 that it had issued orders for temporary suspension of registrations for new vehicles to its suppliers. This action was taken due to discovery by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of deficiencies in the final vehicle inspection process in six plants across Japan. According to the report by the Ministry, checks were being conducted by technicians who lacked the correct internal certification. The s...

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ly 6, Opel sister company Vauxhall has announced today that it has received an order for 1,000 new all-electric Vivaro-e vans from British Gas – the largest commercial BEV (battery electric vehicle) order in the UK to date. The BEVs will arrive over the next 12 months and be rolled out nationwide across the British Gas engineer workforce. Centrica, owner of British Gas, has committed to electrifying its 12,000 strong fleet by 2030 and will be m...

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on September 29 that it had issued orders for temporary suspension of registrations for new vehicles to its suppliers. This action was taken due to discovery by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of deficiencies in the final vehicle inspection process in six plants across Japan. According to the report by the Ministry, checks were being conducted by technicians who lacked the correct internal certification. The s...

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on September 29 that it had issued orders for temporary suspension of registrations for new vehicles to its suppliers. This action was taken due to discovery by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of deficiencies in the final vehicle inspection process in six plants across Japan. According to the report by the Ministry, checks were being conducted by technicians who lacked the correct internal certification. The s...

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on September 29 that it had issued orders for temporary suspension of registrations for new vehicles to its suppliers. This action was taken due to discovery by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of deficiencies in the final vehicle inspection process in six plants across Japan. According to the report by the Ministry, checks were being conducted by technicians who lacked the correct internal certification. The s...

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, FAW-VW, and Volkswagen Anhui. On September 27, FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Co., Ltd. (FAW-VW) announced that it signed a strategic partnership agreement with Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. (Alibaba Cloud) in Changchun, Jilin Province. In the future, the two companies will collaborate extensively across various domains, encompassing smart manufacturing, logistics, marketing, cloud platforms, talent cultivation, artificial intelligence, and mobi...

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l include 52.7km of smart roads, an autonomous driving operation center, a data center and a plant featuring different autonomous driving scenarios. FAW will launch the operation of 20 Level-4 E-HS9 Hongqi vehicles in the second-phase project. In the future, FAW plans to operate 100 smart vehicles across major urban areas of Changchun. It expects to realize smart vehicle operation in closed, semi-closed and open scenarios on industrial park road...

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l include 52.7km of smart roads, an autonomous driving operation center, a data center and a plant featuring different autonomous driving scenarios. FAW will launch the operation of 20 Level-4 E-HS9 Hongqi vehicles in the second-phase project. In the future, FAW plans to operate 100 smart vehicles across major urban areas of Changchun. It expects to realize smart vehicle operation in closed, semi-closed and open scenarios on industrial park road...

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Orion Assembly Plant for Chevy Bolt EV production Chevrolet delivers first Bolt EVs GM to start autonomous vehicle manufacturing and testing in Michigan Opel launches Ampera-e in Europe GM completes production of first group of self-driving Chevrolet Bolt EV test vehicles Chevrolet launches Bolt across U.S. in August GM idles Orion, Oshawa, Fairfax plants to cut car inventory GM to increase production of Chevrolet Bolt EV GM investing USD 100...

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of BRL 16 billion in Brazil, with BRL 13 billion allocated to production plants in São Paulo and BRL 3 billion to the São José dos Pinhais factory. On January 8, Volkswagen announced a record-breaking 2024, led by the success of the VW Polo, which became the best-selling vehicle in South America across all segments with 161,503 units sold. In Brazil, the Polo dominated for the second consecutive year as the top passenger car and hatchback, wit...

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zilian reals in Brazil through 2016.  The investment includes not only expanding capacity to build cars at Fiat factories, but also its group companies like Iveco, Case New Holland (CNH), Magneti Magneti and Teksid. The investment will create about 7,700 jobs directly and another 12,000 indirectly across the country. On February 12, Antônio Filosa, president of FCA Latin America, confirmed that the company will have new 1.0- and 1.3-liter turbo...

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the country. Operations at its four factories in Brazil will resume April 5 at the São Bernardo do Campo, Sorocaba, and Porto Feliz plants, and April 6 at the Indaiatuba plant. The plant closure announcement coincided with Toyota’s official launch of its all-new Corolla Cross SUV at dealerships across Brazil. Toyota says any further stoppages will not be necessary because of a lack of semiconductors, as it was able to secure its component inv...

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12, Renault Group announced that the group is studying the creation of an Electric Vehicles and Software entity in France in order to accelerate this transition and support the fast-growing electric vehicle market. The scope of the study includes electrical and software activities and technologies across the entire value chain: engineering (part of the Technocentre, Renault Software Lab, Lardy and other sites under study in the Paris region), ma...

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tions of Renault- and Dacia-branded Dusters had reached one million vehicles worldwide. The millionth Duster was made at Renault’s plant in Curitiba, Brazil, and will be delivered to a customer in the same country. Duster is currently marketed in more than 100 countries and made in five factories across the world: Pitesti (Romania), Curitiba (Brazil), Envigado (Colombia), Moscow (Russia) and Chennai (India). Renault announced new investments in...

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the Battery Training Center in Douvrin. On December 12, Stellantis France announced that its Caen site has launched its geothermal power plant, marking a significant step in its energy transition. The plant will provide 30% of the site’s energy needs, heating workshops, and cooling installations across 80,000 square meters. It is a world-first for Stellantis and one of the first industrial uses of geothermal energy in France.The plant took 10 ...

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chnologies, including an array of Nissan Intelligent Mobility features and safety systems, making it the most advanced Navara yet. The new model features an “unbreakable” design language. For the first time for the Navara and Frontier, Nissan will offer the PRO-4X grade, which will be available across global Nissan pick-up line-up. Initial production of the new Nissan Navara will start in Thailand and Frontier in Mexico. Production of the new...

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d chassis dynamometer. This highly-advanced rolling road allows engineers to simulate different gradients of hill, measuring exhaust emissions from combustion engine cars, or electrical energy consumption from hybrid and future electric models. The ‘real world’ simulations can also be completed across a range of temperatures, from -20C to +50C. On January 26, Bentley Motors announced its ambitious programme Five-in-Five plan which commits Ben...

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o come up with measures to be taken to cope with possible capacity shortage, as sales of the model is expanding in the U.S. Fuji Heavy Industries will raise its sales target for 2015 fiscal year about 43 percent to over 400,000 vehicles compared with the level in 2011 fiscal year. The sales outlets across the nation will be increased about 10 locations to 630 locations in fiscal 2015. In fiscal 2012, in addition to Vancouver, B.C. in Canada, Rich...

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dium-duty engine platforms to Detroit’s Redford Township, Michigan manufacturing facility. The same facility manufactures the Detroit DD13, DD15 and DD16 engines, as well as the Detroit DT12 automated manual transmission and Detroit axles. Detroit components maintain a 95% engine penetration rate across all heavy-duty Freightliner and Western Star truck models. On April 25, Daimler Trucks announced that it is launching the Freightliner Econic S...

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