sed by a heavy snowfall on February 14. The plant resumed operations from the morning of February 18. The company's Fujimatsu and Inabe plants suspended the first shift on February 18 and restarted operation from the second shift. The three plants' combined total of affected vehicles is expected to exceed 1,000 units. Toyota Motor Corporation has launched the fully redesigned Alphard and Vellfire minivans through dealers across Japan on January 2...

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e overseas markets to continuously build such brand labels as intelligence, low carbon, and design, and to boost promotion investments in these markets. 3) Marketing service: By 2030, 20 local marketing organizations shall be established in overseas markets, and the number of overseas outlets shall exceed 3,000. 4) Market development: Accelerate exploring the five regional markets of Europe, Americas, the Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and...

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ith the Project, BYD will establish production lines of harnesses for new energy passenger vehicles, precision injection parts for electric motors, wheel speed cables, wheel bearings and seat covers in Funan County. After the Project is completed and reaches production, the annual output value will exceed CNY 10 billion, creating over 20,000 jobs and providing support for 1 million new energy passenger vehicles every year. The 1st phase of the Pr...

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e country's plants are going through a very difficult time. During a press conference, the OEM manager also mentioned that future investments in the Córdoba and Pacheco plants depend on improvements in the country's economic situation. "Today I cannot say whether the next (investment) program will exceed USD 300 million or not, because we are still deciding what to do. However, I can say that the head office has not forgotten us." During the sam...

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is moving its manufacturing operations to a new 41,000 square-foot facility in Wixom, Michigan. The manufacturing relocation is part of a USD 3 million expansion designed to double the company's production capacity in the United States. Production of latch modules at the new facility is expected to exceed one million units in 2018 compared to 350,000 latch modules just five years ago. The company will add 30 new jobs at its new production locatio...

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Heavy Industries, Ltd. (FHI) announced that it will expand production of the Subaru XV Hybrid in October. The model was released in June 2013. The company did not disclose the scale of expansion and daily production volume. It will boost production as the number of orders reached 8,700 on 18th, far exceeding its monthly target of 550 units, and the car will be exported to the U.S. in autumn. On August 19, Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. (FHI) started...

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it will raise its marketing budget to stay competitive, citing growing pressure from other Chinese EV brands heavily investing in pricing and brand strategies. Despite regulatory pressure from the Board of Investment (BoI) to localize production, the company views this as an opportunity. It aims to exceed 50% local content, up from less than 20% currently, attributing the low percentage to the early stage of Thailand’s EV industry. (From an art...

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ries’ Enasave EC300+ adopted for new Suzuki Hustler Sumitomo Rubber Industries establishes natural rubber procurement subsidiary in Singapore Sumitomo Rubber to supply SPLT30A tire for Toyota Granace Sumitomo Rubber develops new technique for selectively observing various materials Dunlop factory exceeds 25 million passenger car, heavy truck tires in Fazenda Rio Grande, Brazil Sumitomo Rubber to supply Enasave 300+ tire for Toyota Yaris  Falk...

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r technical neutrality, "LED module" is changed to "light source module" to avoid being limited to LED light sources. Other wording was revised for clarification. ・Vehicle category was omitted and added as follows. 6.2.6.1.2. For category N2G, N3G, M2G, M3G (off-road) vehicles where the headlamps exceed a height of 1,200 mm, the limits for the vertical inclination of the cutoff shall be between: -1.5 per cent and -3.5 per cent. ・Four types of...

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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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o give feedback. Key topics include making services accessible for disabled and elderly people, how local councils approve services, and when permits can be changed, suspended, or revoked. The APS scheme is a major part of the Automated Vehicles Act. It will require self-driving vehicles to meet or exceed the safety of skilled human drivers and pass strict safety tests before being allowed on roads. Based on UK Government press release...

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MB 200 million in the inkaNet 3.0 project, and plans to spend another RMB 200-300 million in the years ahead. On January 7, SAIC Motor announced that it has sold more than 5.1 million vehicles in 2013, up 13.7% year-on-year. This is the first time that a Chinese automobile enterprise recorded sales exceeding five million units. SAIC Motor's own brand Roewe and MG recorded a 15% sales increase to 230,000-unit level. SAIC Motor has installed variou...

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rceptual recognition. The MAXUS-Pilot intelligent driving assistance system on the vehicle enjoys features such as NRP (narrow road passing) and carefree parking. In addition, SAIC Maxus plans to launch 10 NEV (New Energy Vehicle) models in the next 3 years, aiming to increase the NEV percentage to exceed 40% of its total sales by 2025. On September 19, MAXUS, part of the Chinese group SAIC Motor, announced that it is presenting a fully electric ...

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liter version. Both engines are supplied by GM Daewoo. In the first half of 2009, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automotive increased its vehicle sales to 525,050 by more than 50 percent compared with the same period in the previous year. It is the first time for any single Chinese domestic vehicle manufacturer to exceed a half-million mark in its sales. SAIC-GM-Wuling Automotive plans to export two mini van models of the Wuling brand to South America, North Afr...

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system "OnStar" notifies the user of the problem. Shanghai General Motors has set its production and sales goal for 2013 at 1.45 million units. Given the cumulative production from January through October 2012 topping 1.14 million units, up 10.3% year-on-year, annual sales for 2012 are expected to exceed 1.38 million units. Shanghai General Motors said on January 15 that the new Buick Excelle will premier on February 1. The Buick Excelle is a mi...

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south bank of Hangzhou Bay Bridge in Hangzhou Bay New Zone. It has an area of 1,870,000 square meters. With its own press, body and paint shops plus a final assembly unit, the plant has a total annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles. According to media, the automation ratio of the body and paint shops exceeds 85%. On the same day, the new Skoda Superb rolled off the production line of the plant. In the future, the plant will produce a model built on...

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, which will require 11.759 billion yuan for construction, will be able to produce 300,000 units passenger cars a year and begin operations in 2014. Together with the new plant, a supplier park will also be built in Hangzhou Bay New Zone. The amount of investment by core parts makers will likely to exceed 10 billion yuan. Shanghai Volkswagen has revealed the new Lavida four-door compact sedan for Chinese users at the Beijing auto show. The new La...

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2g/km. Audi launched 10 types of the 2010 "A6" model equipped with an assortment of engines of 2.0-liter, 3.0-liter "TFSI," 2.8-liter "FSI" and 2.4-liter mated to a manual transmission or a CVT. Sales prices range from 355,000 yuan to 696,000 yuan. Accumulated production of the "A6" series in China exceeded half a million as of August. FAW-VW kicked off mass production of the "Golf A6,"a Chinese version of the 6th generation of the "Golf." The ve...

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d of 2015, and two Jeep SUVs including the Renegade compact SUV. GAC FAC is building a new plant with an annual production capacity of 160,000 units in Guangzhou City, which will begin operations in the first half of 2016. Combined with the Changsha Plant, manufacturing capacity of the company will exceed 700,000 units a year by the end of 2020. The company said it will increase the number of competitive models to 10. GAC FCA's Jeep Cherokee spor...

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nounced that it will offer a new generation of three, all-electric, fully-connected electric passenger vehicles and four electric commercial vehicles by 2024. With its extended range of electric passenger and commercial vehicle models, Ford expects its annual sales of electric vehicles in Europe to exceed 600,000 units in 2026, it supports Ford’s goal to sell more than 2 million EVs globally by 2026. Starting in 2023, Ford will begin production...

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