The British Transport Advisory Consortium of Commercial Vehicle Operators (Btac for short) plans to measure the 'fundamental powers' trucks need to overcome rolling resistance and aerodynamic drag. It will run these tests and others on petrol-electric and diesel-electric hybrid cars,
Frost & Sullivan's Automotive & Transportation Practice is hosting a one-day interactive workshop on 3rd July at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Munich. which will present the critical success factors for innovation management, and case studies from vehicle manufacturers and suppliers.
The automotive telematics provider ATX Group has announced an initiative with the Detroit-based Connected Vehicle Trade Association (CVTA) to convene an international work group to address how to safely access internet content through embedded and nomadic devices in vehicles.
BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz Cars division are in talks to explore joint development, production and procurement of components such as seat frames and air conditioning models, according to a report in today's Wall Street Journal. One of the paper's sources
Creating the largest solar panel structure for industrial use in Spain has reduced Nissan Motor Ibérica's energy bills and won the the 2008 Carles Ferrer Salat Award, presented annually by Fomento del Trabajo Nacional, a confederation of Catalan businesses.
Ssangyong Motor Co., the South Korean subsidiary of Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., said today that it has held talks with its unionised workers to cut production of SUVs in response to declining sales, blamed on higher diesel prices. Ssangyong reported
The UK Freight Transport Association has told a conference of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that there is a very positive case for conducting trials of longer and heavier lorries in the UK.
The RHA announced yesterday that its board will consider organising a mass lobby of Parliament in favour of legislation for a fuel duty regulator, on a date yet to be announced at its meeting next week. An SNP MP has
Delphi's data connectivity products now include two new products: A three-port hub that can accommodate multiple vehicle systems or consumer interfaces and allows standard USB ports for iPods® and MP3 players, video and audio jacks for games, DVD players or
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd, NEC Corporation, and its subsidiary NEC TOKIN Corporation, yesterday announced that their joint-venture company announced in April last year - Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) - had begun full operations. AESC will focus on the development
The 27 members of the EU Council of Ministers failed to agree at a meeting earlier this month on the outcome of a working group set up in March to establish sustainability criteria for the biofuels mandated by the EU
Christian Streiff, Chairman of PSA Peugeot Citroën and Osamu Masuko, President of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, signed a joint venture agreement to produce vehicles for Peugeot, Citroën and Mitsubishi in Russia yesterday.
South Korean Prosecutors yesterday sought a six-year prison term for Chung Mong-koo, the chairman of Hyundai Motor, after the Supreme Court last month ordered a review of a lower court's ruling that gave him a suspended jail term for embezzlement.
