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53% The percentage of all battery-electric vehicle sales in 2023 that were utility vehicles, according to the Argonne National Laboratory. Cars made up most of the remainder. Copyright 2024 Crain [...]

U.S. September retail sales rose 0.4% overall and 0.5% excluding autos, each beating expectations. Headline sales in August were up 0.1% and 0.2% (was 0.1%) ex-autos, while July sales climbed [...]

Byline: David Leggett BMW Group increased its sales of fully electric vehicles by +19.1% in the first nine months of 2024, with a total of 294,054 BEVs delivered to customers, [...]

Key Highlights: * The cumulative revenue for January to September 2024 was 55.46 billion, showing a 0.50% decrease from the previous year. * The company mentioned a decrease in energy [...]

Byline: Autocar Pro News Desk The global production milestone comes 57 years after Hyundai Motor was set up. Since then, its manufacturing footprint has expanded to India, Turkey, the US [...]

Byline: Mayank Dhingra The rising number of global competency centres that are engaged in the development of software, connectivity and electronic technologies for modern vehicle platforms are calling for an [...]

Byline: David Leggett A forecast for September light vehicle sales in the US suggests the market is running flat, despite a year-on-year decline projected for the month. JD Power said [...]

RENAULT SPECIAL / It’s a Renaulution! / FEATURE Ampere’s future VIVE LA RENAULUTION! AMPERE: CRANKING UP THE VOLUME ON EVs AND TECH Traditional car manufacturers are being pushed harder than [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Australian new vehicle sales in August fell 10.6% year on year to 98,328. Year to date volume was up by 5.3%. The FCAI said the passenger segment [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts New vehicle sales in Japan fell by 3.5% to 328,470 units in August 2024 from 340,341 units a year earlier, according to the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. [...]

Byline: Autocar Pro News Desk There is still a chance that Ford will wait for its autonomous vehicles before venturing into this space, Business Insider noted. Ford could come up [...]

Byline: Aryaman Raghuvanshi Towards the end of the previous year, Ashok Leyland made a significant entry into the large-scale electric vehicle market with the introduction of its Boss electric truck. [...]

Byline: Matt Borucki The Japanese auto industry has been mired in several scandals this year. It all started in December last year when the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and [...]

Renault has announced that electrified vehicles (EV) made up 29.6 percent of its Group sales in Europe during the second quarter of 2024. The increase of 4.3 percentage points compared [...]

Foresight Autonomous Holdings, a technology company developing smart multi-spectral vision software solutions and cellular-based applications, reported the signing of an agreement for a follow-up paid software proof of concept (POC) [...]

Byline: Ajit Dalvi Over half-a-million CNG-fuelled passenger vehicles, three-wheelers, goods carriers, buses and van were sold between January-June. While Maruti Suzuki's PV share is at 66%, a rollout of new [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts The recent trend of declining new vehicle registrations in New Zealand continued in June, with the lowest sales for that month in over a decade. It was [...]

Byline: Ajit Dalvi Sustained demand for Toyota-made MPVs and SUVs as also the clutch of rebadged models along with ramped-up production and customer-friendly initiatives pays dividends. As a result of [...]

Byline: Autocar Pro News Desk 'The triumphant march of software will fundamentally revolutionise the automotive industry,' Hartung noted. Bosch wants to generate sales running into billions with software, by the [...]

India witnessed a significant surge in electric vehicle (EV) sales, reaching a remarkable 1,752,406 units in the fiscal year 2023-24, marking a 40.31 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth. This data comes [...]

Shares of Hertz Global are down about 8% in afternoon trading after Bloomberg reported that the rental-car company's advisers have begun contacting potential investors regarding the potential sale of at [...]

Byline: David Leggett Some positive news to start. The US economy continues to drive the US vehicle market and production up. GlobalData's world Light Vehicle (LV) production forecast remains broadly [...]

Byline: David Leggett Recommended Buyer's Guides * Buyer's Guide Leading Guide to Connectivity and Infotainment Systems for the Automotive Industry * Buyer's Guide Leading Guide to Internet of Things (IoT) [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts New vehicle sales in Thailand dropped by a further 21% to 46,738 units in April 2024 from an already weak 59,530 units a year earlier, according to [...]

U.S. retail sales were unchanged in April and rose 0.2% excluding autos, disappointing forecasts. And the prior two months were revised down. March headline sales were up 0.6% (was 0.7%) [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Japan's new vehicle market declined by a further 11% to 310,346 units in April 2024 from 349,592 units a year earlier, according to registration data released by [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Retail sales of light passenger vehicles in China fell 2% year on year to 1.585m units in April and 6% month on month, according to the China [...]

Byline: Ajit Dalvi FY2025 opens on a good note for India Auto Inc as all vehicle segments register growth. While two-wheeler sales are up 33% at 1.64 million units, three-wheeler [...]

The global vehicle roadside assistance market size was valued at USD 28.53 billion in 2023 and is predicted to hit around USD 41.93 billion by 2031, a study published by [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts New vehicle sales in Malaysia fell 10% to 71,052 units in March 2024 from a record high of 78,881 units a year earlier, according to registration data [...]

Byline: Ajit Dalvi Sixty percent of the record 4.21 million passenger vehicle sales in India came from 2.52 million UVs, a big leap from the 552,135 UVs and 5% share [...]

Ennostar (TWSE: 3714) is a globally renowned leader in optoelectronic solutions. Ennostar is accelerating deployment in automotive sensing to meet growing demand. Ennostar collaborates with European and American automotive manufacturers [...]

VinFast, Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer, has announced a significant increase in vehicle deliveries and revenue for the first quarter of the year. VinFast has reported delivery of nearly 9,700 units [...]

Byline: TimesTech Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric [...]

Byline: Kiran Murali and Prerna Lidhoo The industry has reported its highest-ever monthly sales numbers in all 12 months of the financial year. Driven by improved availability of semiconductors and [...]

Fisker is significantly reducing the price of the Ocean sport utility vehicle, the company's only model, as it faces liquidity challenges and the pending delisting of its stock, Bloomberg's Richard [...]

Stellantis reported a record investment plan for the South American region totaling 5.6 billion (R$30 billion) from 2025 to 2030, making it the largest investment in the history of the [...]

Byline: David Leggett India’s light vehicles (LV) market is on the cusp of a record-breaking year, with a confluence of economic, political, and market factors aligning to drive growth. Robust [...]

U.S. February retail sales increased 0.6% and rose 0.3% excluding autos.These follow declines of -1.1% (was -0.8%) and -0.8% (was -0.6%) respectively in January and gains of 0.1% (was 0.4%) [...]

Byline: Paige Hodder Used electric vehicle financing can be costly for consumers but profitable for lenders. Used EV prices fell dramatically last year as Tesla slashed prices on new vehicles [...]

Byline: Ajit Dalvi Sharp rise in demand for compressed natural gas-powered three-wheelers, passenger vehicles, goods carriers and buses in the first 11 months of FY2024. The recent price cut by [...]