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Inside Tesla -- And What's Really Disrupting The Automotive Industry - Forbes

Inside Tesla -- And What's Really Disrupting The Automotive Industry
Forbes
Some companies are moving quickly and innovating within the automotive industry, but others are stuck in the past. In March, for instance, I criticized GM for spending $17 billion on wasteful stock buybacks and, in my opinion, not pivoting quickly ...

Recharging India's automobile industry - Daily Pioneer

Daily Pioneer

Recharging India's automobile industry
Daily Pioneer
On September 7, Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari, standing before the assembled grandees of the Indian automotive industry at the Society of Indian Automotive Manufacturers (SIAM) said that automakers have to move towards electric ...
Government's insistence on 100% electric vehicle switchover shocks auto industryBW Businessworld

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Europe's auto industry greenwashing diesel in attempt to save its dying technology - Bellona

Bellona

Europe's auto industry greenwashing diesel in attempt to save its dying technology
Bellona
Roughly two years after the Dieselgate scandal, which exposed a systematic industry-wide emissions cheating by the automotive industry, the newly published report by NGO T&E reveals an even darker side to Europe's most beloved diesel cars, namely their ...

Germans are falling out of love with their carmakers. Angela Merkel knows it - CNNMoney

CNNMoney

Germans are falling out of love with their carmakers. Angela Merkel knows it
CNNMoney
"There is no other industry as important, and it's clear that there is a close relationship between the government and the industry," said Arndt Ellinghorst, head of Global Automotive Research at Evercore. "The government has always been lobbying for ...

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Mexican Auto Industry Undeterred by 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake - The Truth About Cars

The Truth About Cars

Mexican Auto Industry Undeterred by 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake
The Truth About Cars
Despite countless injuries, over 200 fatalities, and widespread damage yet to be fully assessed, the automotive industry emerged from the quake largely unscathed. Arguably the hardest hit, Volkswagen Group's Puebla plant temporarily halted assembly so ...
Mexico earthquake prompts plant status reviewsjust-auto.com (subscription)
Earthquake appears to have spared Mexico's plastics industryPlastics News

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Slovakia's worker shortage threatens growth of auto industry - Financial Times

Financial Times

Slovakia's worker shortage threatens growth of auto industry
Financial Times
For many years, Porsche's Cayenne SUV was all but completed at Volkswagen's sprawling car plant outside Bratislava, before being sent almost 370 miles to Leipzig for the final touches — including a “Made in Germany” stamp — to be added. That will ...

Sapa re-opens Welsh factory - just-auto.com (subscription)

Sapa re-opens Welsh factory
just-auto.com (subscription)
Norwegian-owned aluminium company Sapa is to re-open its factory in Bedwas to supply the automotive industry with lightweight body structures. The first customer to be supplied from the refurbished facility will be London Electrical Vehicle Company ...

A Shape-Shifting Car? Patent Filings Point to Auto Industry's Future - Wall Street Journal (subscription)

Wall Street Journal (subscription)

A Shape-Shifting Car? Patent Filings Point to Auto Industry's Future
Wall Street Journal (subscription)
DETROIT—Car fanatics wanting a glimpse at the auto industry's next big thing used to flock to auto shows. Now, many of them flip through online patent filings. Auto makers, pressured to keep up with Silicon Valley companies working on autonomous-car ...

EU automotive industry sets emission targets - Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia

EU automotive industry sets emission targets
Sky News Australia
Frankfurt Europe's automotive industry has agreed to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions in the coming years at one of the world's biggest car shows in Frankfurt, but only on the condition that electric cars prove to be successful. The European ...

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The Auto Industry Is a Major Obstacle to Trump's NAFTA Deal - Fortune

The Auto Industry Is a Major Obstacle to Trump's NAFTA Deal
Fortune
MEXICO CITY—NAFTA negotiators discussed rules of origin on Monday as the Trump administration's expected demand for U.S.-specific automotive content requirements was emerging as a major obstacle to a deal, auto industry lobbyists said. U.S. Trade ...

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