Taipei, Nov. 2, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan’s Farglory Land Development recently announced to tie up with local counterparts Delta Electronics, Inc., Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (CHT) and Hotai Motor Co. Ltd. (local agent of Toyotas and Lexus) ...
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The boss of Holden has called on both sides of Australia's political spectrum to settle their differences and agree to support the local automotive sector ahead of what he believes will be a defining year for the industry. Holden chairman ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, political, federal election, government support
Business Line reported that Honda launched the Amaze sedan in Thailand on November 23rd 2012, with India launch scheduled within the next 6 months. This strategy is similar to the one adopted for the Brio premium hatchback, which was first ...
French car parts supplier Plastic Omnium is planning to halt the production of auto bumpers at its German Eisenach-Thuringia factory, which also makes fuel tanks and systems. The company has decided to reduce production due to shrinking ...
Tags: Plastic Omnium, auto bumpers, Eisenach
US carmaker General Motors (GM) is planning to collaborate with independent researchers to develop a new tyre technology to enhance fuel efficiency of its vehicles. Work on development of new technology is expected to begin in ...
Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor is planning to install new steering technology in some of its vehicles. The new technology, known as steer-by-wire, will be installed in some models of Nissan's Infiniti brand within a year. With the help ...
Tags: Nissan, New Steering Technology
Taipei, Nov. 16, 2012 (CENS)--The increasingly stringent emission standards are changing the landscape of some automotive markets, in which originally non-mainstream powertrain vehicles might enjoy clear growth. According to a recent ...
Tags: automotive market, powertrain vehicle, diesel engine car, auto industry
Intel Capital has raised a $100m investment fund to assist enhance the innovation and the adoption of new technology and services in the automotive industry. The funding is part of company's ongoing work with automakers and in-vehicle ...
Tags: Intel Capital, investment fund, Future Automotive Technology
Global demand for auto parts in the fourth quarter, the traditional high season, is expected to be strong, especially amid bad weather in North America. Tong Yang Industrial Co., Ltd., a major auto-parts supplier in Taiwan, announced ...
Tags: Industry Trends, Fasteners
Royal Imtech has received orders worth EUR68m to expand, improve and upgrade technical solutions that include improving energy efficiency for various German car and truck manufacturers. The German automakers which awarded the orders to ...
Ford has been making some eye-opening claims about the fuel economy of the redesigned 2013 Fusion Hybrid sedan and new C-Max Hybrid wagon: "47 city/47 highway/47 combined mpg." After running both vehicles through our real-world tests, we ...
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Downtown-based PPG Industries is sitting on about $2 billion in cash as it goes into the fourth quarter, which is usually a cash-generating quarter, said Chairman and CEO Charles Bunch, and how the coatings and specialty materials company ...
Tags: PPG Industries, Acquisitions, titanium dioxide raw material
There are some tempting car lease ads right now, but are they truly good deals? Perhaps they are useful in the short-term, but our analysis of recent newspaper ads reveal that traditional buying leads to long-term savings. We looked at ...
Tags: car lease, ads, good deals, traditional buying, Toyota RAV4, Subaru Outback
As in-car displays house more information and controls, there is concern at how to make the screens less distracting while driving. Now a new study has found that even small changes in typeface style can help reduce the visual load of a ...
Tags: driver distraction, in-car displays, screens, typeface style
Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment.One day in 1952,the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius.At some point during the run,a faulty ...
Tags: glass works, Corning, pyroceram, construction