[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After months of negotiation, Nokia sells the HERE Maps division to the German consortium, BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen for $2.71 billion. The deal would see HERE Maps turn into an open platform, which all car manufacturers can use for navigation and mapping inside vehicles. The three...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Scandinavian automotive supplier association, FKG is hailing this week's breakthrough talks concerning Iranian sanctions in Vienna as "great for Europe." Iran has been on its knees economically for years as decades of Western suspicion surrounding its supposed nuclear weapons programme have translated into harsh penalties severely...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]New-car registrations in Germany jumped 13 percent in June, helped by two extra sales days and a growing economy. The surge in June registrations mirrors strong gains in France, Italy and Spain, suggesting the region is maintaining its steady recovery despite worries about a Greek exit...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the EU-China summit opens in Brussels today, new research points to a “delivery gap” on clean energy, which is making the EU level less relevant to Beijing than individual member states, or the US. China’s clean energy reforms “have exceeded all expectations” in recent years,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today Transport Ministers from 12 European Member States, CEOs and over 1000 transport stakeholders joined the high-level transport conference 'TEN-T Days' in Riga, organised by the European Commission, in cooperation with the Latvian Presidency. The trans-European networks (TEN-T), which are at the core of the...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]AFTER 30 years of intense convergence in the car industry – a period that has seen most mass-market products and brands evolve toward near-interchangeability – shifting dynamics appear to be pushing cars into an unpredictable new future. This shift has not been triggered by the abrupt,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Franco-German attempts to secure changes within the Eurozone without treaty changes threaten to undermine UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s EU reform efforts. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_single_image image="8575" alignment="center" border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" qode_css_animation="" img_size="full"][vc_empty_space height="20px" background_image="" image_repeat="no-repeat"][vc_column_text]French daily Le Monde reported yesterday (26 May) that Franco-German proposals to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Why a Better Regulation Agenda? The 2014 European elections showed that many citizens are concerned with what they perceive as an undesirable level of EU involvement in their daily lives. While some of this can be put down to misunderstanding about the EU's actual work, and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]General Motors has launched a parts-buying program that forgoes conventional supplier bidding. Instead, GM inspects suppliers' factories and analyzes their internal cost data. Suppliers who agree to the procedure, dubbed the One Cost Model, get contracts for periods ranging up to the life of a vehicle. GM,...