NEWSWORTHY
Renault-Nissan teams up with Google, letting Android take over the dashboard
Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. are about to do what many carmakers have been trying to avoid: let Google into the dashboard. The French-Japanese auto alliance announced Tuesday a technology partnership that will make its vehicles among the first to use ...
Toyota ready to share hybrid secrets with China to advance in world's largest auto market
Toyota Motor Corp. is preparing to divulge details of the hybrid-car engine technology it pioneered with the Prius to China in an attempt to catch up with rivals in the world's biggest auto market. Chinese officials asked Toyota to share its gasoline-electric technology to help ...
Japan is making a push to develop flying cars, enlisting companies including Uber and Airbus to join a public-private panel tasked with making airborne vehicles a reality in the next decade.
Toyota to target tripling of China output to 3.5 million vehicles over next decade
Toyota Motor Corp. is aiming to triple car production in China by as soon as 2030 in a renewed push to make up lost ground in the world's biggest market, according to sources. Asia's largest automaker is targeting to manufacture 3.5 million vehicles annually in ...
After driving ban, Saudi women finally get to savor thrill of speed
Donning a helmet inside a pearl silver sports sedan, Rana Almimoni skids and drifts around a Riyadh park, engine roaring, tires screeching and clouds of dust billowing from the back. For Saudi women, such adrenaline rushes were unimaginable just weeks ago. Speed-crazed women drivers are bound ...
Nissan launches China-focused electric car as competition in segment heats up
Nissan's first electric sedan designed for the Chinese market began production Monday, the start of a wave of dozens of planned lower-cost electric vehicles being created by global automakers for their biggest market. Manufacturers including General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG are poised this year ...
Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber for development of self-driving cars
Toyota Motor Corp. will invest $500 million in Uber to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said Monday, in a bid by both firms to catch up with rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business. The investment values Uber at $72 billion, ...
The government asks 20 companies to staff a panel that will brainstorm ideas to help Japan catch up to its rivals in the new aviation race.
Volvo owner Geely overtakes Nissan to snatch third spot in China's auto market
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. surpassed its top three Japanese rivals to become the third-largest carmaker in China, helped by models that appeal to the nation's young consumers. Reporting a 54 percent jump in net income for the six months through June, the carmaker said in ...
Nissan to boost China production capacity by 40 percent: source
Carmaker plans to invest about $900 million in the country, part of an $9 billion strategy to become a top three player in the world’s largest auto market.
Exports of used electric and hybrid vehicles are surging on the back of strong demand for Japanese-made eco-friendly vehicles abroad, partly reflecting growing awareness of environmental protection in emerging countries. But the trend may pose a problem in terms of recycling in Japan as exports ...
Aisin Seki expects to take ¥40 billion hit if U.S. hikes auto tariffs
Aisin Seiki Co. said Friday it expects to take a hit of ¥30 billion to ¥40 billion if the United States raises tariffs on autos and auto parts. "Any dramatic change (in tariffs) would be a concern," Kiyotaka Ise, president of the auto parts giant, ...
