Japanese airbag maker Takata has announced its plans to meet with engineers from its automaker customers, to update them about the root cause of the airbag inflator issue that led to recall of millions of vehicles worldwide. The meeting ...
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Wireless technology maker Qualcomm introduced LTE modems designed to allow cars to stay connected to cloud-based services through the web. The company added Snapdragon X12 LTE modem and Snapdragon X5 LTE modem to Snapdragon Automotive ...
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With 'wildfire' growth over, many production lines idle Overcapacity is proving to be a headache for automakers in China as sales slow in the world's largest auto market, said analysts and industry insiders. Though 23.5 million vehicles ...
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Vehicle technology supplier Visteon is planning to unveil new technologies at the 2015 Mobile World Congress which claimed to improve a vehicle life. The company will showcase cloud-based connected technologies that are designed to ...
Apple is preparing to start the production of its electric car by 2020. According to a Bloomberg report, the California-based company has been secretly developing an electric car. The usual timeframe for automakers for developing a car ...
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Japan-based Daicel is planning to build a second US factory for air bag inflators in early 2016. Reuters cited Daicel spokesman as saying that the company initially planned to construct the second US factory in March 2017, after its ...
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The UK Government has commenced a trial of self driving cars in Bristol and Greenwich and it will be tested on the public roads of Milton Keynes and Coventry. The testing comes after a UK Government review, which allowed the automakers ...
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Ford CEO Mark Fields announced the company’s plans to release six new car models in the Russian market this year. The decision comes during a time when automakers including General Motors and Renault are cutting operations in the ...
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Unlike slow and steady batteries, supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists ...
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Geely is leading Chinese automakers in terms of innovative capacity, according to a report unveiled in late January by the intellectual property and science business of information provider Thomson Reuters. The report examined recent ...
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The Washington Auto Show is a huge event that entertains hundreds of thousands of consumers, displaying more than 700 new makes and models of cars, trucks, mini-vans and sport utility vehicles from over 42 domestic and import automakers.You ...
The US Department of Justice announced that a Detroit federal grand jury has indicted an executive of Takata on one-count for conspiring and price fixing of seat belts sold to car makers. Hiromu Usuda, the accused executive allegedly ...
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BorgWarner provides its advanced front cross differential (FXD) technology for the new SEAT Leon CUPRA. Designed for high-performance front-wheel drive (FWD) vehicles, the electronic limited slip differential significantly improves vehicle ...
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During today's Plastics in Automotive Conference in Detroit,Sandy Munro, CEO of Munro & Associates, discussed – for the first time publicly – his consulting firm's findings from its extensive deep-dive teardown, costing and ...
Venezuela has hit an all time low in vehicle production, which fell to a 19,759 units representing a drop of 72.5%. Government's currency control has tied auto makers from importing essential components for the production of vehicles. ...
Tags: parts shortages, labor disputes, Auto