Tesla Might Close China Deal, Start Producing Cars Locally
21 Jun 2017, 11:58 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The Chinese market is the holy grail for EV makers, and the best way to take full advantage of it is to build your cars in China, avoiding the import tax
Honda Intends to Form Joint Venture With Hitachi To Develop And Sell EV Motors
7 Feb 2017, 13:56 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Two of Japan's biggest companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding today, aiming to establish a joint venture specialized in electric motors
Mitsubishi Might Sell the Renault Latitude in America
6 Nov 2013, 12:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Renault-Nissan and Mitsubishi have decided to make their struggles a little easier to deal with and have officially announced plans for "projects covering shared products, technologies and manu...
Ford Explorer Production Starts in Russia
11 Apr 2013, 14:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Ford's European sales are still nowhere near where they need to be, and as such the automaker is dealing with a lot of overcapacity. However, that hasn't stopped them from expanding their ...
Volvo Looking to Overtake Daimler as Largest Truck Manufacturer
29 Jan 2013, 09:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is not only cars which bring in the big bucks for the large automakers, as most of them have some sort of commercial arm, which builds anything from vans to fully-fledged trucks. Volvo and Daimle...
Chinese-Made Ford Mondeo Is Ready!
24 Jan 2013, 10:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the announced closure of the Genk plant, and the moving of production to Spain, Europe has been starved of its beloved Mondeo, until 2014. However, the car is already on sale in the US, where i...
Renault Creates Joint Venture With China's Dongfeng for 150,000 Cars Per Year
22 Jan 2013, 12:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault is not as present as some other mainstream manufacturers, on the Chinese market, yet they plan to change that, and the first order of business is the creation of a joint-venture, with a loca...
Alfa Romeo Roadster Confirmed for 2015 - Will Be Made in Japan
18 Jan 2013, 13:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We already had information that Mazda would be helping Alfa Romeo create a great rear-wheel driven roadster, as the two automakers entered a mutually-beneficial partnership, last year, in May. Now, ...
Volkswagen Wants to End Van-Building Deal With Mercedes-Benz
10 Jan 2013, 08:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you may not have noticed, when looking at the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and the Volkswagen Crafter, but the two commercial vehicles are very much identical, and the only things that differ are the f...
Renault Reportedly Cuts Cord With Smart on Development of New ForTwo
8 Jan 2013, 16:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault signed a formal agreement with Daimler, for the production of the all-new Smart ForTwo and the all-new Twingo, and the two cars were reportedly going share the same platform, and engines. Ho...
All-New Ford Mondeo Arrives in China in May
3 Jan 2013, 16:37 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the Europeans still have to wait for the all-new Ford Mondeo to arrive in its natural home market, it seems that they will be the third major market to get it, after the Americans, and now the...
PSA to Continue Commercial Vehicle Collaboration With Fiat
2 Jan 2013, 08:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fiat and PSA Peugeot-Citroen have announced that they will be continuing their collaboration in the production of commercial vehicles in 2013. This news is somewhat odd, as PSA has all-but cut off i...
PSA and GM Scrap Plans for Large Sedan - Will Work on Small Petrol Engines
20 Dec 2012, 12:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The initial plan, when GM and PSA got together and decided to collaborate, was to jointly-develop the next Citroen C5 and a replacement for the Opel Insignia, which would ultimately end up being bui...
New Volkswagen Santana Officially Launched in China
18 Dec 2012, 16:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you were wondering if Volkswagen was going to put its own badge on the Skoda Rapid/Seat Toledo, you should wonder no more, as they have already done it, and the result is the China-exclusive Sant...
Opel CEO Says Talks Between GM and PSA Are Going Well
17 Dec 2012, 11:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The PSA Peugeot-Citroen group has been in talks with GM for several months now, trying to find some sort of solution for poor sales in Europe. It was said that the two automakers would first build t...
Tata Motors Denies PSA Connection
15 Nov 2012, 16:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We reported yesterday, that after PSA’s talks with GM had ground to a halt, due to the unstable economic climate of Europe, as a rumor, that they had begun talking with Tata Motors, in view of...
GM Deal in the Doldrums - PSA in Talks with Tata Motors
14 Nov 2012, 16:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the announcement that more advanced talks between GM and the PSA group would be ceasing for the next two years, due to the uncertain economic climate of Europe, we thought the French giant woul...
PSA and GM Give Up on Talks of Deeper Collaboration
14 Nov 2012, 10:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While GM and Peugeot had big plans, to make everything from superminis and large sedans, to crossovers and SUVs, it seems that they have moved too quickly in making all those future plans, as talks ...
New Joint Venture Planning a Number of EVs for Europe, US and China
13 Nov 2012, 10:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Two companies have announced their intention to create multiple-use electric vehicles - KLD Energy Technologies, which usually develops high-performance electric motor technology, and Cenntro Group ...
BMW Lithium-ion Hybrids are Alive and Well
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Johnson Controls-Saft (JCS) will be providing lithium-ion batteries for the mass produced versions of BMW’s 7 Series ActiveHybrid car, which is currently being showcased at the Paris motor sho...