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With Honda mired in crisis over quality lapses, CEO Takahiro Hachigo seizes the wheel

Business / Corporate Dec 12, 2019

With Honda mired in crisis over quality lapses, CEO Takahiro Hachigo seizes the wheel

At a two-day gathering for Honda's suppliers in March, Chief Executive Takahiro Hachigo sounded the alarm. At the Hotel Higashinihon in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Hachigo told them the automaker was facing a crisis after a string of costly recalls and other quality blunders and needed ...

Nissan's Infiniti names new design chief as another non-Japanese exec exits

Business / Corporate Aug 26, 2019

Nissan's Infiniti names new design chief as another non-Japanese exec exits

Nissan Motor Co.'s premium brand Infiniti said it has named Taisuke Nakamura as its new design chief, replacing Karim Habib who resigned from the post. Canadian designer Habib, who spent only about two years in the role, is the latest non-Japanese senior executive to have ...

China car sales sink over chaotic adoption of new emissions rules

Business / Corporate Jul 4, 2019

China car sales sink over chaotic adoption of new emissions rules

Shanghai-based Buick dealer Ron Li in late April found himself in an unfamiliar quandary: how to sell off almost 80 sedans and SUVs crowding his dealership lot. The crux of the problem: a June 30 deadline for cars built to so-called China-5 emissions standards to ...

Striking a delicate balance, Toyota took care to draw up U.S. investment plan before China research deal

Business / Corporate May 21, 2019

Striking a delicate balance, Toyota took care to draw up U.S. investment plan before China research deal

Announcing U.S. investment first was a strategy CEO Akio Toyoda felt the firm needed to pursue in order to avoid Trump’s wrath, meeting minutes showed.

With strong China focus, VW spearheads $300 billion global drive to make all cars electric

Business Jan 10, 2019

With strong China focus, VW spearheads $300 billion global drive to make all cars electric

Global automakers are planning a $300 billion surge in spending on electric vehicle technology over the next five to 10 years, with nearly half of the money targeted at China, accelerating the industry's transition away from fossil fuels and shifting power to Asian suppliers ...

Nissan sources link latest Ghosn allegations to Khaled Al-Juffali, vice chairman of one of Saudi Arabia's largest conglomerates

Business / Corporate Dec 27, 2018

Nissan sources link latest Ghosn allegations to Khaled Al-Juffali, vice chairman of one of Saudi Arabia's largest conglomerates

Sources with knowledge of Nissan Motor Co.'s probe into its former Chairman Carlos Ghosn have said that an individual involved in fresh misconduct allegations against Ghosn is Khaled Al-Juffali, vice chairman of one of Saudi Arabia's largest conglomerates and a member of the board ...

Nissan's Hiroto Saikawa, a hard-nosed leader, takes center stage after Ghosn's ouster

Business / Corporate Nov 23, 2018

Nissan's Hiroto Saikawa, a hard-nosed leader, takes center stage after Ghosn's ouster

In sacking his long-time mentor, Carlos Ghosn, as chairman of Nissan Motor Co., CEO Hiroto Saikawa has only bolstered his reputation for being a tough leader unafraid to antagonize people in the interests of business. Thursday's board decision to oust Ghosn, one of the most ...

Nissan to pump ¥1.05 trillion into China business, eyeing spot among country's top three carmakers

Business / Corporate Feb 5, 2018

Nissan to pump ¥1.05 trillion into China business, eyeing spot among country's top three carmakers

Long stuck in China’s second-tier, Nissan and Dongfeng Group plan to boost their volume to 2.6 million vehicles a year by 2022.

Toyota's solid-state battery to power future as automaker readies 'game-changer' for mass market

Business / Tech Nov 1, 2017

Toyota's solid-state battery to power future as automaker readies 'game-changer' for mass market

Toyota Motor Corp. is scrambling to solve outstanding issues as it races to commercialize a battery breakthrough during the first half of the 2020s with the potential to cut the cost of making electric cars. The all solid-state battery is a next-generation, high-capacity energy storage ...

Chinese automakers have until 2019 to meet new green-car sales targets

Business Sep 29, 2017

Chinese automakers have until 2019 to meet new green-car sales targets

China has set a deadline of 2019 to impose tough new sales targets for electric plug-in and hybrid vehicles, slightly relaxing an earlier plan to launch the rules from next year that had left global automakers worried about being able to comply. Carmakers will need ...

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