Future Mobility, a joint venture set up by Foxconn Electronics, Tencent Holdings and China Harmony Auto Holding to develop smart electric vehicles in China, will invest CNY11.6 billion (US$1.69 billion) to build a smart vehicle ...
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Jaguar Land Rover has opened its first wholly-owned manufacturing plant outside its home market of the UK. The company inaugurated a £240m manufacturing facility and education business partnership centre in the state of Rio de ...
Ford has inaugurated its $1bn integrated manufacturing facility along with an engine plant in Sanand, Gujarat which will double the company’s manufacturing capacity in India. The facility, which is spread across 460 acres, will ...
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor is set to merge manufacturing and research functions with French carmaker Renault, in order to save over JPY400bn ($3.9bn) per year for the alliance. To head the production departments of both companies, ...
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German carmaker Volkswagen’s Chinese joint venture Shanghai Volkswagen (SVW) has opened a new vehicle manufacturing plant at Urumqi in Western China. Claimed to be the first plant in Xinjiang region and the Group's 102nd plant ...
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Indian automaker Tata Motors is seeking to expand its wholly owned British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) vehicle manufacturing plant in Halewood, UK. The expansion of JLR's plant in north-west England would be carried ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota is planning to invest about $230m to build a new car engine manufacturing plant in Indonesia, as part of its strategy to expand powertrain production in emerging markets by 20%. The new plant will be used to ...
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South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor has completed the expansion of its vehicle assembly plant in Turkey with an investment of EUR475m. The Turkish facility, Hyundai Assan Otomotive Sanayi (HAOS) in Izmit, was built in 1997 and it is ...
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German carmaker Volkswagen is planning to invest about CNY10bn ($1.62bn) to build a new vehicle manufacturing plant in Changsha, China. The current investment is about 12% of the overall $12.7bn that the German carmaker plans to invest ...
Frankfurter Allgemeine anounced last Saturday that German Volkswagen would build vehicle manufacturing plant in Changsha, Hunan Province, which can produce 300,000 vehicles every year. According to Frankfurter Allgemeine, this factory ...
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Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda Motor’s Indian subsidiary Honda Cars India (HCIL) will invest about $460m (INR25bn) in its Tapukara vehicle manufacturing plant in Rajasthan, India. The investment will be used for the ...
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Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams (BYD) is planning to start construction of a new electric bus assembly plant in Lancaster, California in the US on 01 May 2013. The company is expected to establish the assembly in a 13acre ...
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Renault-Nissan alliance is planning to invest about $320m (JPY30bn) to set up a low-cost vehicle manufacturing plant in India The alliance is expected to invest the amount to construct a second manufacturing plant at the company's site ...
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Japan-based utility vehicle maker Isuzu Motors is planning to build a vehicle manufacturing plant at Sri City, Andhra Pradesh in India with an investment of $185.8m. The company would utilise Hindustan Motors' Chennai car plant and a ...
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Infiniti, the luxury vehicle brand of the Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor, is planning to start production at Nissan’s UK vehicle manufacturing plant in Sunderland from 2015. The Japanese carmaker will invest about £250m in ...
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