Automotive electronics and emerging technologies are at the forefront of the connected car experience. Advancements in these technologies and ever-changing lifestyle demands are shifting the driving experience. The international ...
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AAAA executive director Stuart Charity The Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA) has submitted to the Federal Government’s Productivity Commission Review into the auto industry that a constructive discussion about the ...
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Making its Guangzhou Auto Show debut, Qoros, an international car brand headquartered in China, announced today the prices for its first volume car – the Qoros 3 Sedan – as the last step of its market introduction. Owing to ...
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Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that its integrated iron and steel plant Ural Steel and German wheel producer Mefro's Russia plant have agreed to extend their ...
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Kapsch TrafficCom is presenting its new EVK-3300 communications platform for V2X communication at the Car 2 Car Communication Consortium Forum in Munich. With its EVK-3300 platform Kapsch is directly targeting car manufacturers and ...
Following the development of a special, new chassis for police cars, Volvo Cars is now actively targeting a significant increase of its sales of police cars around the globe. The qualities of the new chassis were recently underlined when ...
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“The challenges for using new, fibre-based materials in the automotive sector are very complex,” explains Dr. Timo Hammer, Head of the Bioservice Team at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany. Given the variety ...
Indian steel giant Tata Steel has announced that it has started supplying UK car makers with a British-made dent-resistant steel that helps to further reduce vehicle weight. According to Tata Steel's statement, the new steel product in ...
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Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
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German autoparts maker Continental has commenced the production of its new tire making plant in Kaluga, Russia. The company has invested EUR240m in the plant to reach an annual capacity of four million tires in the first phase until ...
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A Tesla Model S caught fire on a highway in the US city of Seattle recently after its floor-mounted battery compartment was ruptured by a large piece of metal. The shape and size of the metal piece was enough to punch a 7.62cm diameter ...
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French car parts supplier Plastic Omnium has opened a new $110m Inergy Automotive Systems plant in New Boston, Michigan, for the production of plastic fuel tanks. Inergy Automotive Systems, a subsidiary of Plastic Omnium, produces ...
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Months of vigorous lobbying from German ministers have resulted in the scrapping of an agreement to cap average new car emissions in the European Union at 95 grams per kilometre by 2020, down from around 130/g/km today. Reuters reports ...
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Plastic Omnium has opened a new automotive development center in Lozorno, Slovakia, to support its exterior and structural components operations. The company invested nearly €2m in the construction of the engineering center that will ...
At a time when Indian, Russian and Brazilian car markets are stumbling, China remains the major growth engine for the global automotive industry, analysts say. "For many years it's been the Bric nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) ...
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