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Wednesday 30 October 2024
Chinese government pledges to lead local electric vehicle adoption
Chinese officials published a notification on October 28 that aims to boost domestic demand for electric vehicles (EV) through new government procurement requirements. The new measure...
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Tesla's ambitious plans face regulatory and supply chain hurdles
Tesla's third-quarter results exceeded market expectations, with gross margins rising to 19.8%. The company attributed the performance to lower per-vehicle costs, but analysts highlighted...
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Automotive JVs struggle amid rising competition in China
Automotive joint ventures (JV), which had dominated China's automotive sector for four decades, have encountered heightened competition from Chinese new energy vehicle (NEV) firms.
Tuesday 29 October 2024
BYD's October surge boosts Taiwan's supply chain gains in Q4
BYD's new energy vehicle (NEV) sales excelled in October, buoying the performance of its Taiwanese suppliers in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to market sources.
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Only a few will survive: low-price EV market not sustainable, warns supply chain
Though the 2024 Paris Motor Show has wrapped, the shockwaves sparked by low-cost EVs are still reverberating. Chinese automakers continue to dominate certain markets by slashing prices,...
Monday 28 October 2024
Tesla shifts focus back to EVs with strong Q324 earnings beat
Tesla's Robotaxi launch failed to excite the market, but its third-quarter 2024 earnings brought attention back to its core EV business, beating expectations with strong deliveries...
Monday 28 October 2024
China's auto industry embraces local chip production with RISC-V architecture
China's automotive sector increasingly recognizes the critical importance of local chip production, prompting a shift towards the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture....
Friday 25 October 2024
Musk and Trump's EV standoff sparks industry debate
Tesla just posted its strong third-quarter earnings, however, the talk of the town has been on CEO Elon Musk's political tango with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump...
Thursday 24 October 2024
Electric bus fire puts spotlight on battery safety and management
Taiwan's push to electrify all public buses by 2030, with 11,700 diesel buses slated for replacement, has fueled rapid growth in the electric bus industry. However, safety concerns...
Thursday 24 October 2024
Dekra pours NT$1bn into Taiwan expansion for IoT, AI testing
Dekra, the world's largest independent testing, inspection, and certification organization, officially opened its new Taiwan headquarters in Linkou, New Taipei City, on October 23,...
Thursday 24 October 2024
European automakers see more challenges at home
European automakers have long struggled with the influx of low-cost Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), but their challenges are intensifying. Now, they face the dual pressure of stringent...
Wednesday 23 October 2024
Will Tesla driverless taxi shake up autonomous driving?
Tesla has demonstrated its high-level autonomous unmanned vehicles, the Cybercab robotaxi and the Robovan passenger/cargo van, at an event. It also unveiled the Optimus robot at the...
Wednesday 23 October 2024
Tier-1 and other automotive suppliers face EEA transition pain
The pace of conventional automakers in Europe and the US adopting automotive electronic and electrical architectures (EEA) lags behind that of emerging automakers like Tesla and Chinese...
Monday 21 October 2024
Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' faces probe after pedestrian death
The US opened a federal investigation into whether Tesla Inc.'s partial-automation system marketed as Full Self-Driving is defective after multiple crashes, one of which resulted...
Friday 18 October 2024
Japan-Taiwan's urban compact EV Lean3 to enter production
Through new fundraising, Japan-Taiwan electrical vehicle (EV) manufacturing company Lean Mobility has achieved a cumulative funding of JPY4.6 billion (US$30.8 million), allowing it...