XPENG Motors has completed three rounds of series A+ financing and scheduled to disclose series B round in early 2018. He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPENG Motors, announces that the company has completed three rounds of series A+ financing and ...
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South Korean automobile manufacturer Kia Motors is set to enter the Indian car market by investing $1.1bn to build its first factory in the country. The company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the State Government of ...
Toyota Motor Europe has announced a planned investment of £240m in its UK manufacturing facility at Burnaston in Derbyshire. The factory will be upgraded to allow the production of vehicles on the Toyota New Global Architecture ...
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Lucid Motors has selected Casa Grande for its electric car manufacturing operation. The facility will bring over 2,000 projected new jobs and more than $700m in capital investment to the region by 2022. Governor Ducey said: “Lucid ...
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Samsung recently announced its plans to acquire connected car tech firm Harman, in a deal worth $8 billion – the company's largest ever acquisition. The move prompted many to speculate that Samsung could use Harman audio technology ...
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Volvo Cars has unveiled a new manufacturing strategy for China in which production capacity will be increased. China will be developed into a global manufacturing and export hub servicing growing demand for the company's new range of cars ...
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US engineering firm Aecom has won a contract to build the $1bn electric car manufacturing facility for Faraday Future (FF) in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The 3 million ft2 and 900 acre development will create about 4,500 direct jobs over a ...
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Tesla Motors said it will sell about $1.7bn of common stock to fund the production of the newly announced Model 3 car, which is scheduled to hit the market in late 2017. The Model 3 achieves 215 miles of range per charge while starting at ...
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Axalta Coating Systems will showcase its Harmonized Coating Technologies, a consolidated coating system, in China at the SURCAR 2015 automotive body finishing show in Shanghai. Combining latest generation waterborne coatings with ...
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The Beijing Government in China is taking a call on investment worth tens of billions of yuan to bolster its alternative energy auto sector as part of a national strategy for coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. ...
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Profits at major Chinese industrial firms dropped 0.3 percent year on year in June, down from a 0.6 percent growth posted in May, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday. He Ping, an official with the Department of Industry ...
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Japanese automotive major Honda Motor is all set to come up with a new car manufacturing plant in the Indian state of Gujarat, moving towards inking a state support agreement (SSA) with the government by next four weeks. The Indian ...
Automobile manufacturing solutions firm Divergent Microfactories has introduced 3D printing for making vehicles by cutting down material costs and pollution, as exemplified in its newly-launched Blade car. Riding high on its ...
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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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Publishing its submission to HM Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement on 3rd December, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), has highlighted the consensus across the business world that the business rates system is in need of fundamental ...
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