Manufacturing

Kijiji Autos announced a partnership with Cox Automotive Canada that will reshape how Canadians shop for vehicles with the launch of a complete digital retail marketplace. With the Kijiji Autos solution enabled by Cox Automotive, shoppers can select a car, can get on-the-spot financing and arrange to pick it up at their local dealer—all from […]

Tenneco booked higher third quarter revenue of US$4.3bn, up 2% year on year. The supplier said its revenue performance strongly outpaced industry light vehicle production, which declined 20%. Net earnings were $15m, or $0.17 per share, compared with a net loss of $499m a year ago. Third quarter EBIT was $125m versus $236m in the

Credit: cono0430/Shutterstock AI or artificial intelligence – as an abstract concept – conjures up multiple images, in part because it has been so loved by science fiction writers and film makers over many years. It certainly wasn’t all good, was it? In my mind, straight off the bat, there’s the unnerving and ultimately misfiring HAL

The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) said electric vehicles accounted for 30.4% of new vehicle registrations in October, a record. “The explanation is relatively simple,” said Germany Trade & Invest ‘automotive expert’ Stefan Di Bitonto. “Carmakers decide what sort of vehicles they allocate parts like semiconductors to. The profit margins for electric vehicles

Geely’s Volvo Cars sold 581,464 cars in the first 10 months of 2021, up 12.6% year on year. But October volume fell 22.2% to 50,815 cars due to a shortage of components. Fully electric or plug-in hybrid Recharge models accounted for 25.5% of sales for the first 10 months of the year. That slice rose

Goodyear Tire & Rubber third quarter 2021 sales were US$4.9bn, up 42% year on year. The increase was driven by the Cooper Tire merger, improvements in price/mix, increased sales from other tyre-related businesses and higher volume. Tyre unit volume was 48.2m, up 32%. Replacement tyre unit volume increased 44%, reflecting the addition of Cooper Tire

As a result of a new global technology partnership between Daimler Mobility and Visa, Daimler will offer “native” in-car payments. This, Daimler says, means that entering passwords or relying on mobile devices for payment authentication may soon be a thing of the past as the vehicle itself becomes a biometrically enabled payments device, thanks to

Volkswagen said it would invest EUR1bn in Latin America and expected to make a profit there in the 2021 financial year, for the first time since the 2013 recession. The automaker would build the MQB platform based Polo Track at its plant in Taubate, Brazil for sale in 2023. VW would develop digital business models

Renault Group has officially launched a Refactory project at the Seville plant. As an extension of the programme implemented at Flins (Yvelines, France), which remains the group’s circular economy strategic hub for Europe, this new Refactory will bring together circular economy activities for Spain based on the vehicle’s value potential at each stage of its