ay 20, 2022) Pirelli Tyre S.p.A announced that it has doubled total tire approvals on electric and plug-in hybrid cars in 2021. Since the launch of the Elect marking in 2019, car manufacturers are increasingly choosing this technology and have allowed Pirelli to expand the homologation portfolio by exceeding 250 total homologations on green cars. The development of Elect tires took into consideration particular characteristics like battery life, ...

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ages and reduces data consumption. The Aisin electronic horizon reconstructor is based on the ADASISv2 protocol from the ADASIS AISBL and includes some of Aisin’s proprietary enhancements specifically developed to improve ISA performance. The TomTom ADAS Map also contains speed limits, which have exceeded 90% performance in some internal benchmarks. To achieve 95% quality, TomTom uses different professional sources and Sensor Derived Observatio...

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n affiliate company. In line with the company name change, the group company names will also change on or after April 1, 2025. (From a press release dated February 20, 2025) At the Auto Shanghai 2025, Astemo, Ltd. (Astemo) will exhibit the latest advanced mobility technologies under the theme of “Exceed Mobility Limits”. Astemo will place emphasis on showcasing core products and technologies for the era of software-define vehicles (SDVs), suc...

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costs paid by seven major parts suppliers affiliated with Toyota Motor Corporation on research and development (R&D) remain high. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, all the suppliers plan to spend higher amounts than those in the previous year, and the total amount spent by them on R&D will exceed JPY 1.2 trillion. Meanwhile, four suppliers will decrease their spending on new plant and equipment compared to the previous year. While invest...

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production and warehouse space, manufacturing equipment, and jobs to the facility. The two year expansion increased the facility’s manufacturing footprint by 22,000 square feet. In addition to adding to manufacturing floor space, the workforce increased by 22 percent, allowing CCC to keep up and exceed its average production of 40 million terminals per day. In 2016 CCC produced and shipped 9.8 billion terminals. CCC, a Yazaki company since 198...

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Nidec plans to establish driver motor plants in Poland and Mexico after confirming orders from automakers in order to respond to increasing demand promptly. NTN Corporation (NTN) will start delivery of electric motor-actuators in 2018, and expects its automotive electrification business sales will exceed JPY 30 billion in FY 2025. NTN has developed an eHUB hub bearing, and will strengthen its promotional activities for electrification products. ...

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pany's closing share price on May 5, 2011. (From a press release on May 6, 2011) Illinois Tool Works Inc. announced that it has acquired U.S.-based Despatch Industries, a provider of thermal processing equipment for the solar, carbon fiber and other markets. With full-year 2011 revenues expected to exceed 200 million USD, Despatch Industries products include heat treat furnace systems for automotive applications. Terms of the transaction were not...

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ss. (From an article in the Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun on July 9, 2011) President of Bosch Corporation (Japan), Hideaki Oda said at a press interview held at its Higashimatsuyama Plant "Sales for this term ending in December 2010 will increase 32 percent from the previous term to around 320 billion yen exceeding the original plan." Bosch is confident sales are certain to surpass the initial forecast because of factors such as increased sales of varia...

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standards and quality of performance. (From IAC social media updates dated July 12, 2023) IAC Group announced that its Saltillo plant in Mexico has won the 2022 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award. This award recognizes GM's top-performing supplier manufacturing locations that meet or exceed industry quality performance standards. (From IAC Group social media updates on August 11, 2023) International Automotive Components (IAC) anno...

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rs and processing support, it consolidates BMS functions. It constantly monitors the battery current and slope every 8 microseconds to protect high-voltage batteries from overcurrent. It detects and reacts to a wide matrix of configurable events without waiting for specific current thresholds to be exceeded. Its fuse-emulation technology also enables the removal of melting fuses from the system, which are traditionally used in EVs to disconnect p...

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s worth an estimated EUR 28.8 million (NOK 237 million) over its 6 year duration. The shifters will be used in the OEM's next generation of small sized cars. Production under the contract will start in the fourth quarter of 2016 at KA's facility in Vrable, Slovakia, and peak volumes are expected to exceed 200,000 shifters in 2018. (From a press release on August 13, 2014) Kongsberg Automotive's Driveline business area has been nominated by a majo...

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been present since 1996 and now has five factories, two just in time centers and a technical-sales office. (From a press release on May 26, 2016) Grupo Antolin-Irausa, S.A. announced that it has been chosen by Fiat-Chrysler to manufacture the door panels for the Dodge Ram. Production is expected to exceed 400,000 vehicles per year. To carry out this project, Grupo Antolin is planning significant investment in the United States. (From a press rele...

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offers a new maintenance-free plain bearing KS P180. By reducing the stick-slip effects, it lowers noise and also has an increased load-bearing capacity under edge-wear conditions. KS P180 uses a new bronze structure and a tribologically optimized PTFE compound which, in combination, significantly exceed the load-bearing capacity, in particular the edge load-bearing capacity. On the axial test bench, the new bearing offers significant advantages...

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on includes an option to acquire more land. Current plans foresee the construction of various office and production buildings in three stages. Some 500 employees will begin working in the first building as from 2014. Final completion of the development is to create 1,200 jobs and investments are to exceed 200 million euros. (From a press release on May 25, 2012) Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG announced that it opened a new production facility ...

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pport 800V high-voltage charging and discharging. It is equipped with an 800V SiC electric drive system, achieving a CLTC combined efficiency of 92%, a maximum motor efficiency of 98%, and a peak power output of 220 kW. The ratio of continuous to peak power is as high as 0.55, with continuous power exceeding 120 kW. Additionally, the chassis supports up to 5C fast charging. -In February 2022, the integrated electric chassis development project of...

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he Essen-based brake system specialist serving the independent aftermarket and operating in a joint venture with automotive suppliers TMD Friction and HELLA, provides disc brake pads for all Tesla Model S and Tesla X P100D AWD. From 2021, the proportion of copper in brake pads may legally no longer exceed 5%. By 2025, brake pads sold in the USA must be entirely copper-free. The front and rear axle brake pads of the Tesla models meet these criteri...

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earlier in 2018 with the addition of a third injection-molding press. HBPO provides its assembled front ends to OEM assembly plants. With the two new plants fully operational, the company targets annual revenues in Mexico of USD 1 billion by 2022.Formed in 2004, the company’s global revenues now exceed USD 2.33 billion. (From a Mexico-Now article on July 13, 2018) Plastic Omnium announced that the Group's 4th factory in India commissioned in t...

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[Green Vehicles]   Toyota announced that its global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles topped 2 million units, reaching 2,016,900 at the end of August 2009. It took about ten years since the introduction of a mass production hybrid model for cumulative sales of Toyota's whole hybrid lineup to exceed the one-million mark at the end of May 2007. Only in two years after that, they reached the milestone of two million. Toyota sold 429,700 hybri...

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n fall 2010. The production will be conducted under consignment at Magna Steyr, an Austrian assembler. Nexteer Automotive announced the opening of its third manufacturing plant in Europe and the upcoming opening of its first Technical Center in Tychy, Poland in mid-2016. The overall investment will exceed over USD 16 million. The new plant will allow the company to expand Nexteer’s manufacturing capabilities of Electric Power Steering (EPS) sys...

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r of automotive safety products for the Russian market and assembles seatbelts for Volvo as a subcontractor to Autoliv. (From a press release on March 1, 2010) Autoliv announced that the company, in an offer to purchase additional shares of its Estonian subsidiary Aktsiaselts Norma (Norma), will be exceeding the 90% threshold. In March 2009, Autoliv announced its intention to make Norma wholly owned. (From a press release on April 15, 2010) Auto...

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