[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Imagine that you are driving along, and a message is projected on your windscreen, warning you of an accident that has just happened around the next corner. This could soon be a reality thanks to new European standards. Connected cars, able to communicate with each...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From 2015, all new cars sold in the EU should be able to dial emergency services when they are involved in a serious accident, under new rules to be voted on by the internal market committee on 11 February. How it will work: a damaged car...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Council adopted today a regulation amending regulation (EU) No 510/2011 to define the modalitites for reaching the 2020 target to reduce CO2 emissions from new light commercial vehicles (PE-CONS 106/13, 106/13 COR1, 5584/14 ADD 1). From 2020, a target of 147 g CO2/Km is set...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since Fiat was founded in 1899, a community of suppliers, known in Italian as Fiat’s indotto, have grown up in Turin around the industrial group. But a question mark now hangs over this network following Fiat’s merger with Chrysler and the mooted relocation of some of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How fortunes vary. Motor City is bankrupt. But the motor industry, unveiling its hottest products at Detroit’s auto show last week, looks increasingly flush. China, now the world’s biggest auto market, posted stronger than expected growth for 2013 – a 14 per cent rise in...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The penetration of automotive air conditioning systems continues to grow, and has reached near-saturation levels in the developed markets, with uptake continuing to climb in the developing markets. Automatic and multi-zone systems are now filtering down from larger, more luxurious vehicles, to even the very...
Stringent Safety and Emissions Standards Present Steep Hurdles...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Samsung Electronics Co, which sells almost one of every three smartphones, wants to parlay that technology into automotive navigation and entertainment systems for an industry that makes more than 80 million vehicles a year. Asia's biggest technology company is pushing beyond the hardware that underpinned its...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The port city of Dalian in northeast China has approved a plan to restrict sales of new cars. Dalian is the fifth city in China -- along with Beijing, Shanghai, Guiyang and Guangzhou -- to restrict vehicle sales, and others are expected to join them. With...